Copenhagen (AFP) - two Greenpeace activists who scaled a platform for oil drilling off the coast of Greenland weekend to protest oil exploration in the Arctic were arrested during the night, police and environmental group, said Thursday.
"Last night, the police decided the time was right, and we have arrested two activists," Deputy police Chief of Greenland Morten Nielsen told AFP.
"They are being transported Nuuk (capital of Greenland) and it will be determined if they they will go before a judge", he added.
Greenpeace also said that two activists of 25 years, Luke Jones of Britain and Hannah Mchardy to the United States, had been arrested after having suspended in a "survival pod" under the platform of "leiv eiriksson" 53, 00-tonne four days.
"Our climbers are now in jail, but that won't stop it we opposed to the folly of drilling for oil that we can to burn and a region where a spill would be nearly impossible to clean," international Greenpeace militant oil Ben Ayliffe said in a statement.
The two activists arrived by Zodiac rubber early Sunday to the platform of 53 000 tonnes, which should begin to drill for oil (110 km) at 180 kilometres off the West coast of Greenland, to society Scottish Cairn Energy.
Greenpeace said the position of the pod prevented the drilling rig, but Cairn told AFP that it was not as drilling was no plan to start.
Deputy Chief of police Nielsen, said that the operation was led by the local police of Greenland is a semiautonomous Danish territory, but that the Danish Navy had been seen where rescue efforts are necessary.
Shortly before midnight (0000 GMT Thursday) "a mounted team operating from the platform broke in the pod", Greenpeace said, adding "Danish marine inflatable boats have been positioned below climbers.".
Cairn meanwhile said that he sought a court injunction to Netherlands against Greenpeace and the owners of its ships the MS Esperanza and the MS Arctic Sunrise.
"Cairn is asking for an order of the court requiring Greenpeace and ship owners to refrain from future disruption of legitimate operations of the offshore Cairn, in Greenland," said the statement.
Ayliff of Greenpeace described the move of the company as "try to us a legal hammer close our campaign for the launch of the oil companies of the Arctic."
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