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Greenpeace Stop Greenland Oil Drilling
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Greenpeace forced a Scottish company to stop Greenland oil drilling by having four activists climb onto an oil rig. Drilling for fossil fuels off Greenland’s west coast resumed in 2001, three decades after a previous effort failed to find oil. Exploration so far has been mostly unsuccessful.
Greenpeace oil drilling activists breached a 1,650-feet (500-meter) security perimeter around the Stena Don rig off western Greenland, climbed up the rig and fastened themselves to it, police spokesman Morten Nielsen told The Associated Press.
Greenland is a semiautonomous Danish territory, and police have been monitoring the activists from a Danish navy ship patrolling the area. Greenland Premier Kuupik Kleist called Greenpeace’s stunt an “openly illegal act” and a “gross violation” of safety rules.
Greenpeace ship Esperanza anchored near the rig as part of a campaign to protest deepwater oil drilling. Scotland-based Cairn Energy PLC announced at the time that it had discovered natural gas in the area but failed to find crude oil. Cairn Energy has not specified the size of possible oil and gas reserves.
Oil drilling in the Arctic has sparked condemnation from Greenpeace, whose activists are worried that an oil rush would damage the region’s fragile ecosystem.