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Greenpeace leader arrested after boarding offshore oil rig

Kumi Naidoo, the international executive director of Greenpeace, was arrested Friday along with another member of the environmentalist group after the pair boarded a Scotch-owned oil rig off the coast of Greenland. "It looks like I'm being arrested now," Naidoo said. "I did this because Arctic oil drilling is one of the defining environmental battles of our age...We have to draw a line and say no more. I'm drawing that line here and now in the Arctic ice." Cairn Energy, the owner of the rig, won an injunction in Dutch court to bar protesters from attempting to halt oil production after several similar occupations by Greenpeace.

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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