STOCKHOLM - three activists of Greenpeace Sunday mounted a platform for oil drilling off the coast of Greenland to try to prevent a Scottish oil company to from drilling in deep water in Arctic waters, says environment group.
Greenpeace said activists scaled the platform of 53 000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson, led by Cairn Energy and are now suspended thereunder in a pod.
It is said that activists arrived at the rig in inflatable boats launched from the ship of Greenpeace Esperanza, which had avoided a Danish warship their observation of the day.
The Group has enough food and water to stay 10 days in the pod, clinging to a few metres of the forest which would serve as oil strike, said Greenpeace.
Cairn won this month permission to drill up to seven oil wells off the coast of the West coast of the island in the Arctic.
Greenpeace has criticized the Cairn, which is the only company from drilling in the region, not to take additional precautions to avoid accidents such as the Gulf of Mexico of 2010 oil spill.
Cairn confirmed activists tried to disrupt the rig to the offshore site exploration trip to Greenland.
The company says it "seeks to operate safe and prudent manner" and stressed that the authorities in Greenland have established stringent operating regulations similar to those applied in the Norwegian North Sea.
Greenpeace said it hopes that the action and dropping out of the plans of the Cairn to complete exploration before winter, forcing the company to abandon the search for oil for another year.
Cairn is currently the only company from drilling in the region, Greenpeace has warned that oil rush in the Arctic could trigger if the company strikes oil this summer.
"We are to prevent drilling because an oil spill here would be almost impossible to deal the freezing conditions and remote location," said Greenpeace activist Ben Ayliffe. "A blow off the coasts of Greenland BP-style render the Deepwater Horizon clean-up to look at simple."
Greenpeace activists climbed to rig Leiv Eiriksson edge when he left a port in Istanbul in April, but were forced to abandon the protest because of bad weather conditions.
Last year, militants also tried to stop drilling in the region to climb on the platform of Stena Don of the Cairn.
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