Two Greenpeace activists arrested as it sends ship to join BP oil rig protest
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4H5R0)
Group defies court order against Arctic Sunrise supporting occupation of North Sea rig
Police have arrested two Greenpeace activists who had boarded a North Sea oil rig as the environmental group said it was sending its ship Arctic Sunrise to join the protest in defiance of court orders obtained by BP.
The oil firm has taken out injunctions against the ship and the Greenpeace ice-breaker, the Esperanza, forbidding them from supporting a protest on a rig in Scotland's Cromarty Firth that is now in its sixth day.
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