Protesters board drilling rig

Oslo - Eight Greenpeace environmental activists boarded a drilling rig off mid-Norway yesterday on Thursday in a protest against…

Oslo - Eight Greenpeace environmental activists boarded a drilling rig off mid-Norway yesterday on Thursday in a protest against new exploration for oil and gas. The protesters clambered aboard the Deepsea Bergen rig, leased by Norway's state oil firm Statoil and Saga Petroleum ASA, which was moored in the Norwegian Sea about 120 nautical miles off Kristiansund.

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