In last April, dfE and Infinity Expeditions had actively participated in a important operation to protest the deep sea oil drilling in the coast of New Zealand.
Although our dfE Project hasn’t been designed to take into direct actions of protest, we believe that Greenpeace's initiative, in close cooperation with the local Maori iwi (tribe), is lined up with our objective to lower CO2 emissions. Therefore, we decided to participate in this operation as proposed by Greenpeace, supporting the discussion about drilling for oil in the depths New Zealand, and stop on going activities.
This operation was successful, since the seismic survey in the East Cape basin has been several times suspended. On the top of it, the New Zealand press has intensely covered the protests and Greenpeace understand that the issue has been highly raised among New Zealand society; so far, the population has been neglectfully excluded of Prime Minister Office’s decisions related to this matter and other energy issues.
There follow some links with New Zealander’s media coverage.
The Channel 3 has broadcasted the story as follow:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Greenpeace-unhappy-with-oil-
plans/tabid/1216/articleID/204285/Default.aspx
The next link shows the moment when, from inside the Infinity, Greenpeace requests the ship hired by Petrobras to stop seismic surveys, on behalf of the people of New Zealand:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Greenpeace-protests-oil-drilling-off-East-
Cape/tabid/1216/articleID/205551/Default.aspx
This photo, taken from the deck of the Infinity, hit the front pages of New Zealand news papers:
http://kiwi247.com/news/Greenpeace-protests-oil-drilling-off-east-cape
This photo is from Greenpeace inflatable, being transported to the surveys location on Infinity deck:
http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/article/?id=22167
Here the Greenpeace activists swam in front of the seismic vessel hired by Petrobras, which had to cease operation. The interview with Vanessa Atkinson, in Infinity is at:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/protesters-stop-oil-research-vessel-4110061/video?vid = 4110171
This is the explanation of the protest at the site of Greenpeace Brazil:
http://www.Greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Noticias/De-olho-aqui-e-acola/
In the next link you will find more photos of the protest, by dfE team:
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