Police remove Greenpeace protesters from oil rig as standoff looms

摘要

Police today removed seven Greenpeace protesters from a Statoil ASA oil rig in the Norwegian Arctic Ocean. Afterward, a Greenpeace ship reached the site of Statoil's planned oil well with the company's rig just hours away. "The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is blocking the arrival of Statoil's Transocean Spitsbergen oil rig in the Arctic by occupying the exact location where the company plans to drill the world's northernmost well," the group said a statement.