Rig activists call for spill plans

ACTIVISTS who staged two protests aboard an oil rig off the coast of Greenland have lodged an official complaint with the country's parliament, calling for the release of an oil spill response plan.

Greenpeace campaigners trying to stop deep water oil drilling in Arctic waters claim the operating company - Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy - and the authorities in Greenland, are keeping the response plan "secret".

On Saturday, 18 activists were arrested after climbing on to the Leiv Eiriksson rig, as they tried to demand details from Cairn about how they would react in the event of an oil spill.

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