MEMBERS of Greenpeace campaigned to save the Arctic outside a Huddersfield petrol station.
They staged a protest outside the Shell garage on Westbourne Road on Saturday, asking passing motorists to support their campaign to stop Shell from drilling for oil in the Arctic this summer.
Greenpeace is calling for the area around the North Pole to be declared a global sanctuary and wants to protect the Arctic from unsustainable fishing and oil drilling.
Jeff Rice, a Greenpeace volunteer from Mirfield said: “We’re protesting at the Shell garage to tell them to stop drilling in the Arctic this summer.
“We want the great folk of Huddersfield to add their name to our Arctic Scroll.
“Greenpeace has over 1 million names added to the Arctic Scroll and we’re on the way to 2 million.
“The Arctic Scroll will be placed in an indestructible pod and taken to the North Pole. There we’ll lower it through the ice and 4km of freezing water and plant your name on the seabed on the bottom of the ocean at the top of the world.
“We’re declaring a global sanctuary in the unclaimed area around the North Pole. We want the UN to designate it a protected area for all life on Earth.”
The cause says drilling in the pristine Arctic risks a spill that the extreme conditions would make “near impossible” to clean up.
