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The **Prirazlomnaya Oil Rig Occupation** was an
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[environmentalist](Environmentalism "wikilink") effort to block the
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construction of an offshore oil rig in [Russia](Russia "wikilink") in
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[2012](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Northern_Asia "wikilink").
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## Background
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Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil company, intended to become the first
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company to drill Arctic oil in the summer of 2012. Gazprom planned to
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use their aging Prirazlomnaya oil platform to extract oil deposits made
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newly available with the retreat of Arctic ice on the Pechora Sea.\[1\]
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## Events
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Six environmentalists affiliated with Greenpeace departed from the ship
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*Arctic Sunrise* on three inflatable dories and scaled the oil platform.
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For five days the activists occupied the platform, facing Gazprom’s
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violent attempts to disperse them. Activists were blasted with water
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cannons, and multiple attempts were made to force activists into the
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sea. According to Greenpeace reporting, the activists only backed down
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on the fifth day because the last remaining dory was pulled vertically
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by a Gazprom cable, intentionally dumping all activists into the ocean
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below. In early September Greenpeace activists in Moscow dressed as
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Polar Bears and protested outside Gazprom’s headquarters. Some activists
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chained themselves to fences, and police arrested some of these
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campaigners. Simultaneously, activists in Germany constructed a leaky
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oil derrick outside Gazprom offices in Berlin.\[2\]
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## Results
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Greenpeace's efforts blocked the construction of the Prirazlomnaya Oil
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Rig.\[3\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Global Nonviolent Action
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Database](Global_Nonviolent_Action_Database "wikilink"): [Greenpeace
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challenges Gazprom, prevents oil production at Prirazlomnaya
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field, 2012](https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/greenpeace-challenges-gazprom-prevents-oil-production-prirazlomnaya-field-2012)
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