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A dash of direct action

But there may be more. Naidoo dodged the question about the possibility of direct protest action by Greenpeace in Russia, but conceded with a sly smile that the group “would make no apologies about acts of peaceful civil disobedience.”

He would know: in 2011, the South African-born activist personally braved Arctic waves twice his height in a light inf latable boat to storm an oil rig by British company Cairn Energy, ascending to the platform while sprayed by freezing water from a pump to hand over a petition to stop oil drilling in the region.

“Cold!” Naidoo blurts out when asked about his impressions from the trip. “But there was also the mind-blowing landscape, like something out of a fairytale.”

Naidoo spent several days in a Greenland prison with a severe cold after the stunt, but Cairn caved in to public pressure and wrapped up its Arctic operations – though now another company, Shell, is on its way drill for oil in Alaska and threatens legal action against environmentalists trying to throw a monkey-wrench into its operations.

The campaign is only picking up steam, Naidoo said, even though he conceded that the Arctic is not an easy place to mobilize the global movement around.

“When we were starting the campaign, my daughter told me, just call it ‘Save Santa Claus Now,’” he said. “It’s the only association people have with the place.”

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