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Scoop Images: Kiwi Captured In Arctic Protest
Four Greenpeace activists were arrested early this morning New Zealand time for trying to prevent the laying of an oil pipeline under the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Sea (1). The pipeline is part of BP Amoco’s controversial Northstar fossil fuel project.
The following photo shows Kiwi activist Tanya Popp arrested in a Greenpeace action against the Northstar project. Below it a panorama shot shows a Northstar project site.
Tanya Popp of Coromandel before
her arrest in the Arctic. She is now in Deadhorse awaiting
questioning.
The Northstar project...
panorama
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Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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