Kumi Naidoo and Ulvar Arnkvaern on the Esperanza, preparing to take action against the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig
Today Kumi Naidoo, the global head of Greenpeace, has been deported from Greenland after four days in jail for his part in a month of direct action on Cairn Energy's Arctic oil rig Leiv Eiriksson.
Today eleven activists appear in a Danish court facing serious charges for a simple act of protest in Copenhagen a year and a half ago, while Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo remains in a Greenlandic jail for his stand against Arctic oil drilling.
Kumi Naidoo, the international head of Greenpeace, with his daughter Naomi [nid:225253]
Kumi Naidoo - the international head of Greenpeace - is currently in a Greenlandic jail following his stand against Cairn Energy's reckless oil drilling here in the Arctic. And so on Father's Day yesterday, his daughter Naomi sent him this heartwarming letter in jail - which he replied to:
Today an Amsterdam court judge turned the tables on Cairn Energy. Rather than granting an injunction against Greenpeace, he instead suggested that the oil company might actually like to consider releasing its secret Arctic Oil Spill Response Plan!
Our activists arrested after boarding Cairn's arctic rig
Today our mission to protect the Arctic moves from the frozen seas of Greenland into the courts of Amsterdam and Greenland.
After our first occupation of its oil rig at the beginning of last week Cairn filed for an injunction
with the courts in Amsterdam. The injunction is aimed at preventing us
taking any further action to stop drilling in the Arctic. It would mean
we’d be fined two million euros for every day any future protest stops
drilling on the company’s Arctic oil rigs.
Posted by nick_gp -
4 June 2011 at 7:57pm -
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Just before being arrested today,
oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe radioed the nearby Greenpeace ship
Esperanza from the oil rig he and 17 other activists had boarded:
18 of our activists scale Cairn's Arctic rig to get the oil spill response plan
Update: After eight hours, all 18 activists have been arrested. More >>
It never really gets dark here in the Arctic but in the soft silver
light of the early morning five inflatable speedboats left the side of
the Esperanza. They carried a delegation of eighteen activists and
headed for the giant Leiv Eiriksson looming on the horizon.
