The first of 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists detained in Russia’s Arctic is a step closer to home. <br /><br />Anthony Perretta, a company director from Newport, Wales, believes that investing in renewable energy solutions rather than exploiting fossil fuels will eventually help stabilise the Earth’s climate and environment. <br /><br />He was granted amnesty under the same Russian law passed last week that pardoned and freed former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the last two Pussy Riot activists.<br /><br />Several more of the so-called Arctic 30 are expected to receive similar amnesty notifications soon.<br /><br />In September activists on board the Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’ attempted to scale a Gazprom oil rig in the Barents Sea to call attention to the threat of climate change and oil drilling in the Arctic.<br /><br />They were detained by coastguards and originally accused of piracy, a charge that was later downgraded to hooliganism.<br /><br />The remaining 27 activists and two journalists are expected to have their amnesties processed shortly.
