Google Plans to Stop Making A.I. Tools for Oil and Gas Firms
Google has pledged to stop building customized artificial intelligence (AI) tools that help oil and gas firms to extract fossil fuels worldwide. The story was reported by Medium’s tech publication, OneZero, following an interview with The Cube that was published on YouTube. A Greenpeace report on Tuesday highlighted how Google, Microsoft, and Amazon use AI and warehouse servers to …
Rosneft : Oil Spilt from Disused Pipeline on Sakhalin Island
Top Russian oil producer Rosneft said on Thursday that around 15 tonnes (110 barrels) of oil spilled off from an idled pipeline on the Pacific island of Sakhalin, while local ecologists say the scale of disaster is far larger. Rosneft said the spill occurred on Wednesday at the Ekhabi oilfield …
Putin to Pardon Gaoled Tycoon Khodorkovsky
President Vladimir Putin is to pardon one of his best known opponents, oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, after a decade in gaol in what may be a gesture to critics of his human rights record before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics. Putin made the surprise announcement that he would soon free …
Putin to Pardon Arctic 30 and Pussy Riot?
President Vladimir Putin has submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would grant amnesty to about 25,000 people in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Constitution, reported the Moscow Times. Although the amnesty bill doesn’t specifically name those who could be pardoned, it does outline the categories of criminal affected. Only first-time offenders who haven’t committed …
Greenpeace: Charges Changed From Pirates to Hooligans
Russia on Wednesday dropped piracy charges against 30 people involved in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling, replacing them with lesser offences and cutting the maximum jail sentence they face to seven years from 15 reported Reuters. The charges against activists who protested at a Gazprom oil platform off …
Greenpeace International Head Urges Meeting with President Putin
Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo has written to President Vladimir Putin offering to travel to Moscow as early as possible to meet with the Russian President, in an effort to end the continued incarceration of 28 peaceful activists and two freelance journalists. In the letter, delivered today to the …
Greenpeace Assails Oil Rig in Russian Arctic
Greenpeace activists have launched an attempt to board a Russian oil platform and prevent it drilling in the Arctic. The group released pictures of two activists scaling the side of the giant Prirazlomnaya platform, and of security forces boarding one of its boats. The project, run by oil monopoly Gazprom, is Russia’s …
Greenpeace Activists Storm Russian Oil Rig
Greenpeace activists have stormed a floating oil rig in Russia’s Pechora Sea to protest oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental organization said on Friday. Greenpeace said in a statement that six activists boarded the Prirazlomnaya platform in the early hours on Friday and remain on the rig. They set …