Greenpeace targets Cairn Greenland drilling again
Greenpeace’s international director, Kumi Naidoo, this morning boarded the semi-submersible drilling rig operating off Greenland for Cairn Energy, in breach of an injunction granted to the Edinburgh-based explorer last week
UNDER the terms of the injunction, granted by the Amsterdam District Court, the environmental organisation risks a fine of €50,000 ($70,700) a day for violating a 500-metre exclusion zone surrounding the semisub. The Leiv Eiriksson, one of two harsh-environment units contracted by Cairn for its Greenland campaign, is drilling the AT-7 well on the Atammik Block, about 160 km off Nuuk. Naidoo demanded that the Leiv Eiriksson’s master halt drilling immediately. He also renewed Greenpeace’s call for Cairn to release its oil-response plan. Naidoo said: “The Arctic oil rush is such a serious threat to the climate and to this beautiful fragile environment that Greenpeace had no choice but to return
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