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Greenpeace contre une plateforme pétrolière russe dans l’Arctique 18 Septembre 2013 Première partie : images d’une action de Greenpeace Deuxième partie : images d’une base russe en construction dans l’Arctique ReuSat 3 - 18/09/2013 15:28:07 - RUSSA-ARCTIC/GREENPEACE PROTES Greenpeace activists arrested during protest at Russian Arctic oil platform Greenpeace activists arrested during protest at Russian Arctic oil platform RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT IS PART MUTE Russian Coast Guard fire warning shots and arrest two Greenpeace activists during protest at Russian Arctic oil platform. SHOWS: PECHORA SEA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 18, 2013) (MUTE) (GREENPEACE -‐ ACCESS ALL) 1. GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS IN BOAT APPROACHING PRIRAZLOMNAYA OIL RIG 2. GREENPEACE BOATS NEAR RIG 3. GREENPEACE ACTIVIST IN BOAT HOLDING ROPE 4. GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS IN BOATS NEAR RIG / ONE ACTIVIST SCALING RIG 5. VARIOUS OF GREENPEACE ACTIVIST TRYING TO SCALE SIDE OF RIG AS WATER BEING POURED ON HIM FROM RIG 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) GREENPEACE ARCTIC CAMPAIGNER, FAIZA OULAHSEN, ON BOARD GREENPEACE SHIP "THE ARCTIC SUNRISE", SAYING: "We're here in the Russian Arctic taking action against the first Arctic oil platform to go into production, which pose a huge threat to the fragile environment. 7. VARIOUS OF COAST GUARD SHIP FIRING WARNING SHOTS 8. SHIP IN SEA 9: Russia Arctic base; RU;KOTELNY ISLAND;;;Audio: NATURAL;Language: RUSSIAN; 10. Servicemen with fire arms 11. Aerial shots island 12. Aerial shot ship arriving 13. Aerials battleships following an ice-‐breaker 14. C/u armoured vehicle driving onshore out of landing craft carrier 15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ruslan Barilov, chief of Aviation commandants office of the aerodrome on the island of Kotelny: "We shall re-‐establish here an Air Force commandants office and the aerodrome Temp which will host transport planes." More views of the island STORY: Russian coast guards fired warning shots and arrested two Greenpeace activists on Wednesday (September 18) as they tried to scale the Prirazlomnaya Arctic oil platform in a protest over the potential threat to the environment from operations slated to start this year. Production at the rig, owned by state group Gazprom and Russia's first such project in the Barents Sea, was delayed last year after similar actions. Gazprom said the delay was down to "technical reasons".
The Arctic holds 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and 30 percent of its undiscovered gas according to industry estimates. However, its economic viability, as well as its environmental safety credentials, remain a matter of debate. The arrested activists were from the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise. After they scaled the platform, a coast guard boat fired the warning shots to force the ship to withdraw from the base of the rig. Greenpeace video of the scene showed a group of boats -‐ both coast guard vessels and inflatables from the Arctic Sunrise -‐ jostling for position at the base of the rig. "Due to the refusal of the Arctic Sunrise captain to halt the unlawful activity, the administration took a decision to stop the ship. The coast guard was forced to fire warning shots four times from an artillery cannon on board a vessel," Russia's Federal Security Service said in a statement. Greenpeace said it received a threat that the ship itself would be fired at if it did not leave the area immediately. The group said it had sent five boats to the Prirazlomnaya rig. It was unclear where the four other boats were located. "We're here in the Russian Arctic taking action against the first Arctic oil platform to go into production, which pose a huge threat to the fragile environment. Gazprom is known for its poor safety standards and we've seen Shell screw up in the Alaskan Arctic last year, and now these two reckless oil companies are teaming up. It's a disaster waiting to happen. We can see the Arctic Sea Ice melting in front of our own eyes, and instead of seeing that as a huge threat to mankind and the planet, oil companies are rushing into the Arctic to drill for the oil that caused climate change in the first place," said Greenpeace Arctic campaigner, Faiza Oulahsen, on board Greenpeace ship "The Arctic Sunrise". Onshore drilling is well established, but significant offshore work is in its infancy despite numerous attempts to make it work and relatively shallow waters. A decade of high oil prices, scarcity of opportunities elsewhere, relatively low political risk and a shrinking ice cap has led companies to look to unexploited parts of the Arctic in recent years. Global majors including ExxonMobil, ENI and Statoil have agreed deals with Russia's state-‐owned Rosneft to enter Russia's Arctic offshore waters. Most of these projects are due to begin extracting in the 2020s, and are seen as crucial to maintaining the 10 million barrels a day of oil flow from the world No. 1 producing nation. Environmental campaigners, worried about the impact on a fragile ecosystem and about how a spill clean-‐up could work in such remote places, have stepped up their campaigns to match the increasing business interest. There is now greater hesitation among companies as high costs, mishaps, a weaker oil price outlook and determined anti-‐drilling campaigns take their toll. Offshore safety concerns have grown after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing millions barrels of oil into the Mexican Gulf. An incident at the end of last year, where Royal Dutch Shell's offshore Alaska rig Kulluk broke free in a storm from the vessel towing it and ran aground became the latest slip for its drilling programme and has been seen industry wide as a turning point for Arctic. Shell later shelved its plans for this year and looks increasingly unlikely to put a 2014 drilling season in place.
Plans are not entirely on hold though. As well as the Russian projects, in August Norway invited bids for licences to drill in its eastern Arctic waters after settling a border dispute with Russia. Prirazlomnoye is the first Arctic offshore oil deposit to be developed by Russia and is located in the Pechora Sea, a part of the Barents Sea, 60 km (40 miles) from the northern coast. Its operations are slated to start by the end of 2013, it's is expected to reach peak production of 6 million tonnes per year (120,000 barrels per day) in 2019. Gazprom Neft is expected to obtain a licence from Gazprom to develop the field. It expects investment in the project to be around 200 billion roubles ($6 billion), of which half has been spent. Meanwhile, Russia is reopening a Soviet-‐era military base in the Arctic, including the aerodrome which will be expanded to allow heavy cargo planes to land all year round. It is a part of a drive to make the northern coast a global shippingroute and secure the region's vast energy resources. Two decades after abandoning it, Russia has sent 10 warships behind four nuclear-‐powered ice breakers to the base on the Novosibirsk Islands to resume a permanent naval presence in the thawing region. The flotilla was led by Russia's flagship nuclear-‐powered cruiser, Peter the Great, along the Northern Sea Route, which connects Europe to Asia across Russian waters from the Kara Gate to the Bering Strait. Warmer summers have thawed more of the frozen waterways, rendering it navigable for longer periods and raising hopes the maritime passage could become a shorter alternative to southern routes