http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSojc45PLio
TO SEE: 1:43 Nat Sound Video...follows :05 escapable ad.
6 Greenpeace activists spent several hours hanging off a Gazprom oil platform in the chill waters of the Pechora Sea...protesting Arctic drilling...doused from above by icy sea water...and pelted with hunks of metal.
Gazprom is preparing to drill its first Arctic well...about 620 miles from Murmansk.
Russian energy companies have poor reputations for dealing with environmental spills.
TO READ:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hVYgD4rbyZzvmV6jm7bPzIY6OT9A?docId=CNG.605754e1259b21d067eb12a0cb4144d1.2a1
ALSO :
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/russian-oil-exploration-in-arctic-circle-causes-major-environmental-damage-a-851617.html
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