Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rig

September 1, 2010 by legitgov

Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rig --Environmental campaigners slip through security boats to scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raid 31 Aug 2010 Greenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four climbers began an occupation of the rig just after dawn. The environment campaigners said the four protesters evaded a small flotilla of armed Danish navy and police boats which have been guarding the rigs in Baffin Bay off Greenland since the Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza arrived last week.