| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 Greenpeace blocks Greenland drilling
| COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Greenpeace forced a Scottish company to stop drilling off Greenland on Tuesday by having four activists climb onto an oil rig. | The activists breached a 1,650-feet (500-meter) security perimeter around the Stena Don rig off western Greenla... | Fuel tanker runs aground in Canadian Arctic—coast guard
| OTTAWA—A fuel tanker has run aground in Canada's far north, carrying nine million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel that risk spilling into the Arctic waters, the Canadian Coast Guard said Thursday. | A coast guard spokesman told AFP no leaks from the tanker... | BP warning: Proposed drilling limits imperil oil spill payouts
| BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. | The company says a ban would also imperil ... | Breather for traffic near Chutneys
| Staff Reporter | Traffic police to allow traffic on reverse direction on Punjagutta 'Y' flyover | Plan to relocate the median abutting the flyover's arm near Chutneys, install a gate | Vehicles coming from Greenlands and Begumpet to be directed to move beneath the fly... | Four held after Arctic storm halts Greenland protest
| Four Greenpeace activists who clung to an oil rig off western Greenland using rock-climbing gear have been arrested after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their protest. | The four men - from the US, Finland, Poland and Germany - faced preliminary charges of vio... | Rachel Whiteread: 'I've done the same thing over and over'
| The Turner Prize-winning Rachel Whiteread makes air solid. She takes empty interiors and gives them presence and heft. She gives the inside of things a life we never knew they possessed. Shakespeare said a poet "gives to airy nothingness/ A local habitation and a name... | Fuel tanker aground in Canadian Arctic
| A FUEL tanker carrying supplies for Arctic communities has run aground in the Northwest Passage but no diesel is leaking, the Canadian Coast Guard said today. | Larry Trigatti, the Canadian Coast Guard's superintendent of environmental response in the central and Arct... | Fuel tanker aground in Canadian Arctic
| A FUEL tanker carrying supplies for Arctic communities has run aground in the Northwest Passage but no diesel is leaking, the Canadian Coast Guard said today. | Larry Trigatti, the Canadian Coast Guard's superintendent of environmental response in the central and Arct... | Cruise ship runs aground in Nunavut
 By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News September 2, 2010   | A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker has arrived in western Nunavut to help remove about 200 passengers and crew from a cruise ship that ran aground Friday night. | Jean-Pierre Sharp, a coast guard officer with the ... | Biz Brief
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The luxury mega-yacht Octopus was parked offshore from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, for five days before slipping away on Monday. (Submitted by Colin Saunders) | One of the world's most luxurious private yachts made an unexpected appearance recently in the High Arctic hamlet of... | |
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