London, UK. 15 September 2013. Native Canadian addresses the crowd from Aurora outside Shell Oil's London HQ on Belvedere Road after Greenpeace take world's largest polar bear puppet in parade to Shell Oil's London HQ. Credit: martyn wheatley/Alamy Live News
World’s largest polar bear puppet to lead Arctic mass parade to Westminster and Shell’s HQ For immediate release 3 September, 2013 The sight of a double-decker-bus-size polar bear marionette lumbering past the Houses of Parliament and unleashing a glacial roar at oil giant Shell’s HQ is going to be among the highlights of a street parade which will stream through central London on 15 September calling for the fragile Arctic to be protected. The family-friendly event organised by Greenpeace will see hundreds of people in polar bear and other Arctic-themed costumes walk and cycle over Westminster Bridge and past the London Eye on their way to the Shell Centre, in protest against the oil giant’s plans to drill in the Arctic. The London parade will be the spectacular highlight of Ice Ride, a global day of action to protect the Arctic marked by mass cycling events happening in 75 cities worldwide, from Bangkok to Johannesburg, Toronto to Mexico City. The event will happen around the time of the Arctic sea ice minimum, the moment in late summer when the ice sheet around the North Pole shrinks to its smallest size. Last year the extent of the sea ice plunged to a historic low, and this year is expected to be among the five lowest ever recorded. As the ice edge retreats, oil companies are pushing their rigs further north to extract oil and gas from areas of the ocean previously covered by frozen water. “Oil companies see the disappearing ice as just another opportunity to drill for more of the oil and other fossil fuels which are causing the melting in the first place,” explains Greenpeace Arctic campaigner Sara Ayech. “For all those who were inspired by the six activists who climbed the Shard back in July, this is a chance to take action and tell Shell and other oil giants that we don’t want their drilling rigs anywhere near the pristine Arctic.” Leading the Ice Ride parade past some of London’s most iconic landmarks will be Aurora, a 41-foot long and 16-foot tall polar be
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