The restraining order was issued by a federal court in Anchorage. Greenpeace's message about BP's environmental irresponsibility is reaching more and more people. Clearly this is why BP has taken this strong action in the courts to silence that message. Currently, the western Arctic is warming three to five times than the global average. An area of Arctic sea ice the size of Texas has disappeared in the last 20 years.
Marine mammals are under threat as the ice pack on which they hunt and breed melts away.
The company has also aggressively promoted its solar division as evidence of its green credentials. But in fact, BP will actually be spending over 50 times more on oil exploration and production than on clean, renewable energy. At this year's AGM, an unprecedented 13 percent of BP's investors voted in favor of BP cancelling Northstar and investing the savings in solar energy instead. Thirteen billion dollars' worth of shares voted for the resolution and against the Board of Directors. Greenpeace's peaceful actions this week follows years of campaigning to halt BP's Northstar oil development project.