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BP AMOCO IGNORES MESSAGE FROM ?POLAR BEARS?

Activists arrested presenting case against company?s Arctic offshore oil drilling.

CHICAGO, March 1, 2000-Six Greenpeace activists (and four ?polar bears?) were arrested today at the BP Amoco headquarters after they constructed a renewable energy camp to spotlight the company?s complicity in the global warming crisis that is destroying polar bear habitat. Just after the activists delivered to the company a video message from a sister camp stationed near BP Amoco?s Arctic oil site, the activists were removed in a paddy wagon and the camp was dismantled and confiscated by police.

?We tried to engage the company executives in a dialogue, but they weren?t prepared to meet with us,? said Greenpeace climate specialist Iain MacGill. ?While we are disappointed, we are not surprised that they are doing there best to avoid facing up to the reality of global warming. These company executives are smart, and they know by now that their Arctic oil plans fuel global warming and directly risk the fragile Arctic environment.?

The Greenpeace activists created the protest camp at BP Amoco headquarters just two days after it established Ice Camp Sirius on the frozen Arctic Ocean near the site where BP Amoco intends to build its controversial Northstar offshore oil facility. If allowed to proceed, the BP Amoco project will open a new frontier for oil drilling in the Arctic.

The purpose of the Chicago camp was to bring ?ground zero? for global warming-the Arctic-to BP Amoco?s doorstep and to call on the company to abandon Northstar and reinvest the money in mass production of solar technology. ?The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, three to five times the global rate? said Dan Ritzman, Greenpeace spokesperson, from the Arctic Ice Camp. ?BP Amoco promotes itself as a green oil company concerned about global warming, yet it continues to drill in new oil frontiers.?

Ice Camp Sirius is also powered by wind and solar energy sources-an overt challenge to BP Amoco to make good on its claim that it will push ahead with solar power. Greenpeace activists will use the camp to keep close watch on Northstar activities. The camp also provides Greenpeace a platform for gathering support for a BP Amoco shareholder resolution that calls on the company to pull out of Northstar and reinvest the savings in its solar division. The resolution will be voted on at the company?s annual general meeting April 13.

---------------------------------------------- Greenpeace Arctic Activists List NO NEW OIL http://greenpeace.org/arctic

Polar bears are starving, walrus and caribou populations are declining, and the Arctic ice pack is melting away: scientists are warning that rising temperatures from global warming are damaging the fragile Arctic systems that wildlife and northern communities rely on. BP Amoco wants to open up a whole new offshore oil frontier by drilling under the melting Arctic ice pack. This further contributes to global warming and threatens to cause oil spills in this vulnerable region. We are fighting to stop Northstar, BP Amoco's proposed oil field in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. We need your help.

Now that two weeks of bad weather are over, we can finally go public: Greenpeace has set up a camp on the frozen Beaufort Sea at a short distance from BP Amoco's Northstar project. Our team of eight arrived around February 12, and the supply plane was delayed by bad weather until this weekend. We now have two large huts with accomodation for a number of activists, and we are busy setting up a number of wind generators.

This is one of the most ambitious projects taken on by the Greenpeace climate campaign, and Greenpeace is in one of its biggest fights ever against BP Amoco's Northstar project.

For more information, and a number of webcasts direct from Alaska, you can visit our website at: http://greenpeace.org/arctic.

I can also pass brief messages on to our ice campers, so if you send messages to me, I'll send them on.

We'll need your help more than ever in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

Here's the release:

GREENPEACE CAMPS ON POLAR ICE TO PROTEST BP AMOCO'S NORTHSTAR PROJECT

February 28, 2000 (Amsterdam) - Eight Greenpeace protesters parachuted and snowmobiled their way onto the frozen Arctic Ocean to monitor and protest the construction of BP Amoco's Northstar project, the first offshore oil project to be built in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. Using a DC-3 cargo plane to fly supplies out to the ice, the protesters set up Ice Camp 'Sirius' one mile from the controversial oil production facility construction site, in a bid to protect the earth's climate from the continued production and burning of fossil fuels and protest the Northstar project.

The protesters, equipped with polar survival gear and state-of-the-art communications equipment, lived in tents for 15days while waiting for the cargo plane to arrive with the two survival huts, which will be powered by wind generators.

"This is ground zero for global warming - the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet," said Dan Ritzman, Greenpeace Climate Campaigner at Ice Camp Sirius. "BP Amoco promotes itself as a green oil company that is concerned about global warming, yet continues to drill in new oil frontiers with projects such as Northstar. It's time for BP Amoco to put its money where its mouth is and shift its investments away from fossil fuels and toward climate-friendly forms of energy such as solar power," said Ritzman.

If built, BP Amoco's Northstar project would produce oil from an artificial island six miles off Alaska's north coast. Oil would be transported ashore in a pipeline buried beneath the seabed. Subsea pipelines are untested and unproven in the Arctic Ocean, an environment of solid or broken ice for more than nine months of the year, of extreme temperatures, harsh storms and months of darkness. Due to these and other factors, an oil spill would be unable to be cleaned up for over 50 per cent of the year. In a 1998 draft environmental impact study the US Army Corps of Engineers estimated the chance of a major oil spill at one in four. If the Northstar project is built, it will open the door for several other offshore drilling projects and for leases and drilling throughout the Beaufort Sea. Opening this new oil frontier will have grave consequences for the climate as well as the polar bears, whales, seals and other wildlife that call the Beaufort Sea home.

"Greenpeace is campaigning against Northstar to stop global warming at its source and to prevent irresponsible oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean," said Steve Sawyer, head of the Greenpeace Arctic Project in Anchorage, Alaska. "The science of climate change tells us that we cannot afford to burn even one-quarter of all known fossil fuel reserves without risking dangerous levels of global warming. Against this backdrop, it is irresponsible for BP Amoco to open this new fragile frontier to oil drilling and untested technologies," said Sawyer.

Ice Camp Sirius was established just weeks after Greenpeace filed a shareholder resolution calling for BP Amoco to halt the Northstar project. Greenpeace has also filed lawsuits in state and federal courts in the U.S. to halt the project.

For more information, contact: Ice Camp Sirius, via Melanie Duchin, Greenpeace Alaska: +1-907-227-2700 Steve Sawyer, Greenpeace Alaska: 1-907-277-8234, or via cellphone: +1-202- 258-3027 Susan Cavanagh, Greenpeace International Press Desk: +31-6-212-96910 Pictures available from John Novis: +31 20 5249580 or can be viewed on the Picture Desk web site :- http://www.greenpeace.org/library/picturedesk.html Video avaialable from Mim Lowe: +31 20 5249543

Notes To Editors: Due to the remote location of Ice Camp Sirius and routine winter conditions in the Arctic, deployment of the camp took place over a period of weeks. On February 12, eight Greenpeace protesters used snowmobiles to get to a site near Reindeer Island, approximately seven miles east of the planned site for Ice Camp Sirius, and 10 miles north of Prudhoe Bay. Equipped with full survival gear and telecommunications equipment, they spent 15 days living in tents while they prepared the runway and waited for the DC-3 cargo plane.

On February 26, the DC-3 arrived with survival and telecommunications equipment. While the plane circled the airstrip, a parachutist jumped from the plane. The parachutist was necessary to help guide the DC-3 on its approach and landing on the airstrip. Once on the ground, the DC-3's cargo was offloaded in 25 minutes, and departed after a total of 60 minutes on the ice.

It took approximately two days to shuttle the gear via snowmobile and sledge to the location of Ice Camp Sirius, seven miles to the west of the airstrip near Reindeer Island. The camp was fully operational by late evening on February 27, Alaska Standard Time.

The camp is made up of two buildings fully equipped with state-of-the-art telecommunications gear, and will have five wind generators to provide power.

--------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Jardine Greenpeace International Climate Campaign Keizersgracht 176 1016 DW Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31 20 523 6660 Fax: + 31 20 523 6200 E-mail: kjardine@ams.greenpeace.org WWW: Check out Arctic Action at http://greenpeace.org/arctic ------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------- Greenpeace Arctic Activists List NO NEW OIL http://greenpeace.org/arctic

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Nothing we do get's rid of the question marks for fonts. See below...

BP AMOCO IGNORES MESSAGE FROM ?POLAR BEARS?

Activists arrested presenting case against company?s Arctic offshore oil drilling.

CHICAGO, March 1, 2000-Six Greenpeace activists (and four ?polar bears?) were arrested today at the BP Amoco headquarters after they constructed a renewable energy camp to spotlight the company?s complicity in the global warming crisis that is destroying polar bear habitat. Just after the activists delivered to the company a video message from a sister camp stationed near BP Amoco?s Arctic oil site, the activists were removed in a paddy wagon and the camp was dismantled and confiscated by police.

?We tried to engage the company executives in a dialogue, but they weren?t prepared to meet with us,? said Greenpeace climate specialist Iain MacGill. ?While we are disappointed, we are not surprised that they are doing there best to avoid facing up to the reality of global warming. These company executives are smart, and they know by now that their Arctic oil plans fuel global warming and directly risk the fragile Arctic environment.?

The Greenpeace activists created the protest camp at BP Amoco headquarters just two days after it established Ice Camp Sirius on the frozen Arctic Ocean near the site where BP Amoco intends to build its controversial Northstar offshore oil facility. If allowed to proceed, the BP Amoco project will open a new frontier for oil drilling in the Arctic.

The purpose of the Chicago camp was to bring ?ground zero? for global warming-the Arctic-to BP Amoco?s doorstep and to call on the company to abandon Northstar and reinvest the money in mass production of solar technology. ?The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, three to five times the global rate? said Dan Ritzman, Greenpeace spokesperson, from the Arctic Ice Camp. ?BP Amoco promotes itself as a green oil company concerned about global warming, yet it continues to drill in new oil frontiers.?

Ice Camp Sirius is also powered by wind and solar energy sources-an overt challenge to BP Amoco to make good on its claim that it will push ahead with solar power. Greenpeace activists will use the camp to keep close watch on Northstar activities. The camp also provides Greenpeace a platform for gathering support for a BP Amoco shareholder resolution that calls on the company to pull out of Northstar and reinvest the savings in its solar division. The resolution will be voted on at the company?s annual general meeting April 13.

---------------------------------------------- Greenpeace Arctic Activists List NO NEW OIL http://greenpeace.org/arctic

Polar bears are starving, walrus and caribou populations are declining, and the Arctic ice pack is melting away: scientists are warning that rising temperatures from global warming are damaging the fragile Arctic systems that wildlife and northern communities rely on. BP Amoco wants to open up a whole new offshore oil frontier by drilling under the melting Arctic ice pack. This further contributes to global warming and threatens to cause oil spills in this vulnerable region. We are fighting to stop Northstar, BP Amoco's proposed oil field in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. We need your help.

Now that two weeks of bad weather are over, we can finally go public: Greenpeace has set up a camp on the frozen Beaufort Sea at a short distance from BP Amoco's Northstar project. Our team of eight arrived around February 12, and the supply plane was delayed by bad weather until this weekend. We now have two large huts with accomodation for a number of activists, and we are busy setting up a number of wind generators.

This is one of the most ambitious projects taken on by the Greenpeace climate campaign, and Greenpeace is in one of its biggest fights ever against BP Amoco's Northstar project.

For more information, and a number of webcasts direct from Alaska, you can visit our website at: http://greenpeace.org/arctic.

I can also pass brief messages on to our ice campers, so if you send messages to me, I'll send them on.

We'll need your help more than ever in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

Here's the release:

GREENPEACE CAMPS ON POLAR ICE TO PROTEST BP AMOCO'S NORTHSTAR PROJECT

February 28, 2000 (Amsterdam) - Eight Greenpeace protesters parachuted and snowmobiled their way onto the frozen Arctic Ocean to monitor and protest the construction of BP Amoco's Northstar project, the first offshore oil project to be built in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. Using a DC-3 cargo plane to fly supplies out to the ice, the protesters set up Ice Camp 'Sirius' one mile from the controversial oil production facility construction site, in a bid to protect the earth's climate from the continued production and burning of fossil fuels and protest the Northstar project.

The protesters, equipped with polar survival gear and state-of-the-art communications equipment, lived in tents for 15days while waiting for the cargo plane to arrive with the two survival huts, which will be powered by wind generators.

"This is ground zero for global warming - the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet," said Dan Ritzman, Greenpeace Climate Campaigner at Ice Camp Sirius. "BP Amoco promotes itself as a green oil company that is concerned about global warming, yet continues to drill in new oil frontiers with projects such as Northstar. It's time for BP Amoco to put its money where its mouth is and shift its investments away from fossil fuels and toward climate-friendly forms of energy such as solar power," said Ritzman.

If built, BP Amoco's Northstar project would produce oil from an artificial island six miles off Alaska's north coast. Oil would be transported ashore in a pipeline buried beneath the seabed. Subsea pipelines are untested and unproven in the Arctic Ocean, an environment of solid or broken ice for more than nine months of the year, of extreme temperatures, harsh storms and months of darkness. Due to these and other factors, an oil spill would be unable to be cleaned up for over 50 per cent of the year. In a 1998 draft environmental impact study the US Army Corps of Engineers estimated the chance of a major oil spill at one in four. If the Northstar project is built, it will open the door for several other offshore drilling projects and for leases and drilling throughout the Beaufort Sea. Opening this new oil frontier will have grave consequences for the climate as well as the polar bears, whales, seals and other wildlife that call the Beaufort Sea home.

"Greenpeace is campaigning against Northstar to stop global warming at its source and to prevent irresponsible oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean," said Steve Sawyer, head of the Greenpeace Arctic Project in Anchorage, Alaska. "The science of climate change tells us that we cannot afford to burn even one-quarter of all known fossil fuel reserves without risking dangerous levels of global warming. Against this backdrop, it is irresponsible for BP Amoco to open this new fragile frontier to oil drilling and untested technologies," said Sawyer.

Ice Camp Sirius was established just weeks after Greenpeace filed a shareholder resolution calling for BP Amoco to halt the Northstar project. Greenpeace has also filed lawsuits in state and federal courts in the U.S. to halt the project.

For more information, contact: Ice Camp Sirius, via Melanie Duchin, Greenpeace Alaska: +1-907-227-2700 Steve Sawyer, Greenpeace Alaska: 1-907-277-8234, or via cellphone: +1-202- 258-3027 Susan Cavanagh, Greenpeace International Press Desk: +31-6-212-96910 Pictures available from John Novis: +31 20 5249580 or can be viewed on the Picture Desk web site :- http://www.greenpeace.org/library/picturedesk.html Video avaialable from Mim Lowe: +31 20 5249543

Notes To Editors: Due to the remote location of Ice Camp Sirius and routine winter conditions in the Arctic, deployment of the camp took place over a period of weeks. On February 12, eight Greenpeace protesters used snowmobiles to get to a site near Reindeer Island, approximately seven miles east of the planned site for Ice Camp Sirius, and 10 miles north of Prudhoe Bay. Equipped with full survival gear and telecommunications equipment, they spent 15 days living in tents while they prepared the runway and waited for the DC-3 cargo plane.

On February 26, the DC-3 arrived with survival and telecommunications equipment. While the plane circled the airstrip, a parachutist jumped from the plane. The parachutist was necessary to help guide the DC-3 on its approach and landing on the airstrip. Once on the ground, the DC-3's cargo was offloaded in 25 minutes, and departed after a total of 60 minutes on the ice.

It took approximately two days to shuttle the gear via snowmobile and sledge to the location of Ice Camp Sirius, seven miles to the west of the airstrip near Reindeer Island. The camp was fully operational by late evening on February 27, Alaska Standard Time.

The camp is made up of two buildings fully equipped with state-of-the-art telecommunications gear, and will have five wind generators to provide power.

--------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Jardine Greenpeace International Climate Campaign Keizersgracht 176 1016 DW Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31 20 523 6660 Fax: + 31 20 523 6200 E-mail: kjardine@ams.greenpeace.org WWW: Check out Arctic Action at http://greenpeace.org/arctic ------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------- Greenpeace Arctic Activists List NO NEW OIL http://greenpeace.org/arctic

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