GREENPEACE USES FREEDOM OF INFORMTION TO FIGHT ARCTIC OIL EXPLORATION
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Greenpeace has used UK Freedom of Information legislation to extract documents from the British Foreign Office to campaign against Arctic oil exploration. It revealed documents warning a Gulf of Mexico-type spill could seriously damage the Arctic because "lower temperatures and...lack of sunlight...[would] inhibit oil eating bacteria..."
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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Greenpeace has used UK Freedom of Information legislation to extract documents from the British Foreign Office to campaign against Arctic oil exploration. It revealed documents warning a Gulf of Mexico-type spill could seriously damage the Arctic because "lower temperatures and...lack of sunlight...[would] inhibit oil eating bacteria..."
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