At dawn on 31 August, four Greenpeace protesters in speed boats evaded a flotilla of armed Danish navy and police boats in Baffin Bay, and climbed an oil rig owned by Cairn Energy, to demand that the company end its dangerous drilling in the Arctic. After 40 hours' occupation, shutting down the rig, harsh weather forced the activists to descend from the hanging tents they had erected under the platform. They were then arrested.
See www.greenpeace.org.uk
Topics: Climate change & climate action