COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenpeace affected a Scottish aggregation to stop conduct off Greenland on Tuesday by accepting four activists ascend assimilate an oil rig.
The activists, accepting breached a 1,650-feet (500-meter) aegis ambit about the Stena Don rig off western Greenland, climbed up the rig and attached themselves to it, badge agent Morten Nielsen told The Associated Press.
The aperture triggered an automated abeyance of the rig’s operations.
The activists are still on the rig and will be arrested, said Nielsen.
“When anyone break the law — and it has happened actuality — the being or bodies will be prosecuted,” Nielsen said by blast from Nuuk, the basic of Greenland.
Greenland is a semiautonomous Danish territory, and badge accept been ecology the activists from a Danish fleet address patrolling the area.
The Danish navy, for its part, said it had no actual affairs to abolish the activists, adage it was up to Greenland’s badge to adjudge what to do.
“Right now we’re cat-and-mouse to see what happens,” argosy agent Michael Hjort told the Greenland bi-weekly Sermitsiaq. “We are accessible with our dinghies in case the activists abatement in the water.”
Last anniversary the Greenpeace address Esperanza anchored abreast the rig as allotment of a attack to beef deepwater oil drilling. Scotland-based Cairn Energy PLC appear at the time that it had apparent accustomed gas in the breadth but bootless to acquisition awkward oil. Cairn Energy has not defined the admeasurement of accessible oil and gas reserves.
The conduct in the Arctic has sparked accusation from Greenpeace, whose activists are afraid that an oil blitz would accident the region’s brittle ecosystem.
Cairn had no actual comments to the rig shutdown.
Drilling for deposit fuels off Greenland’s west bank resumed in 2001, three decades afterwards a antecedent accomplishment bootless to acquisition oil. Exploration so far has been mostly unsuccessful.
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