The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise occupied the planned oil drilling area yesterday in the early hours off the coast of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, prior to the arrival of a Repsol drilling vessel, Rowan Renaissance, accompanied by an unidentified Spanish Warship.
As you can see from the video released by Greenpeace, Arctic Sunrise refused to move from the area when ordered to do so by the warship.
Things turned ugly later, when vessels from the navy ship rammed Arctic Sunrise’s own ribs as they tried to get in close to the drilling vessel. Here’s another Greenpeace video showing the incidents: read more »