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He was just an outlier in the environmental movement, you see:
Copenhagen - Four Greenpeace activists who had clung to an oil rig off western Greenland with rock-climbing gear were arrested on Thursday after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their environmental protest.
Police spokesperson Morten Nielsen said the four men - from the US, Finland, Poland and Germany - faced preliminary charges of violating a 500m security perimeter around the Stena Don rig and trespassing by climbing onto the installation.
The activists had been suspended under the rig since Tuesday to protest Scottish company Cairn Energy PLC’s deepwater drilling in the area, saying it could spark an oil rush in sensitive Arctic waters….
“We stopped this rig drilling for oil for two days but the campaign is far from over,” Greenpeace spokesperson Jon Burgwald said by telephone from the ship Esperanza, which is anchored off Greenland.
“Our activists hung there for more than 40 hours but last night, a freezing storm and high waves made them decide it was too risky. So we contacted the police to say we were stopping the action,” he said.
Just another rational action to rally the masses to their cause. At least they didn’t strap on bombs!
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Pete| 9.2.10 @ 4:01PM
Did they save themselves or did someone have to come and rescue them? If there was a rescue effort, I am sure Greenpeace will offer to pay the costs?
mzk1| 9.3.10 @ 5:26AM
It sounds like they asked the police to rescue them. It's too bad they couldn't have just left them there.
J. Gravelle | 9.2.10 @ 4:31PM
James Lee's Democrat Rating : A-
He wasn't a Lee-publican
http://gravelle.us/node/34
...and yeah, I'm going there. You think if he were a right-wing lunatic the press wouldn't be beating us over the head with his manifesto and tying his actions to his politics?
This one's all on you and yours, Olber-maniacs. Bask in the warm, fuzzy glow of guilt-by-association (or comradery, as it were)...
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Jersey Dave| 9.3.10 @ 12:00PM
You are absolutely right. That protest you described was peaceful. Highly annoying, but not with intent to hurt people. Also the protestors here said nothing about killing or restricting human life. Were they misguided? Yeah, but they didn't say people should die and they didn't set out to do violence.
I hope there aren't repeats of the Discovery Channel idiot.