Greenpeace International activists are attempting to prevent a Russian tanker carrying the first oil from a new offshore platform in the Arctic from mooring at Rotterdam Port. The environmental group said Thursday it has sent two ships, Rainbow Warrior III and Esperanza, plus rubber rafts, paragliders and activists on shore, to meet the Mikhail Ulyanov, a tanker chartered by Russia’s state-controlled oil company, Gazprom OAO. Activists have painted the words “No Arctic Oil” in large letters on the hull of the Russian tanker, while rubber rafts are blocking access to the ship’s mooring place, the group said. Greenpeace opposes oil production inside the Arctic Circle, warning of the danger of a spill in a pristine and difficult-to-reach area – as well as the threat of worsening global warming caused by using fossil fuels. In September, 28 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists were arrested and charged […]