Copenhagen (AFP) - two Greenpeace activists occupied a drilling platform in the southwest of Greenland to protest oil exploration in the Arctic, causing the Government to a reaction of anger.
The activists, who arrived in rubber dinghy, climbed the 53,000 tons "leif eiriksson", an apparatus for drilling by first drilling for oil for the Scottish company Cairn Energy.
They are placed in a survival pod which is suspended 30 metres platform above the water ice below, said Greenpeace.
"The two men are in this capsule with enough supplies for 10 days,", said Birgitte Lesanner, spokesman for Greenpeace in the Denmark.
The event took place Sunday morning, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) off the coast of the capital of the coast of Greenland, Nuuk.
The platform went to its area of operations where two explorations of drilling separated are to take place before December, when water Arctic begins icing.
One of the activists, Luke, is calling himself said he was "proud to have managed to attach my pod over the water" and "contribute to stop this madness."
"Cairn Energy plays dangerously with the nature of Greenland," said Greenpeace in a statement, deploring that the Scottish oil company suspended "deaf to calls by environmental organisations, fishermen and warnings by the Canada and the United Kingdom against drilling in the Arctic."
The Greenland authorities condemned the action "vigorously", calling it illegal and a "flagrant violation of international law".
Industry "Greenpeace is acting cynically, against the legitimate rights for those less advanced is to develop economically," Minister Ove Karl Berthelsen in a statement, labelling action Sunday a stunt "draw the attention of the media."
In Greenland, a foreign territory of the Denmark, is seeking oil exploration as a means of ensuring its economic independence.
Cairn Energy informed the authorities of Greenland that it will continue to move the point of agreed drilling platform, and he did not exclude police seeking to expel the two activists.
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