STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three Greenpeace activists on Sunday climbed up an oil rig off Greenland's coast in an attempt to stop a Scottish oil company from starting deepwater drilling in the arctic waters, the environmental group said....
Greenpeace Activists Climb Greenland Oil Rig
By MALIN RISING, Associated Press: World
Sun, 05/29/2011 - 3:57am
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