Lucy Lawless with hand banner reading "choose people over oil" in front of Statoil rig Songa Enabler.


Barents Sea, Norway 22 July, 2017 - Swimmers and kayactivists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise take to the water to continue opposing the Statoil Songa Enabler oil rig, 275km North of the Norwegian coast in the Arctic Barents sea.

Climate change survivor and activist Joanna Sustento from the Philippines, and actress and activist Lucy Lawless from New Zealand, are among the 19 nationalities who have travelled to the high Northern waters onboard the Arctic Sunrise. Sustento wants the Norwegian government to take responsibility for its climate commitments and development of a new oil frontier in the Arctic. She lost her entire family, except for her brother, to Super-typhoon Haiyan in 2013 which left large parts of her hometown, Tacloban, in ruins.