Greenpeace Ship: Offshore Oil Platform

offshore oil platform: SALEKHARD, Russia Russia announced Tuesday that it had opened a piracy investigation against the crew of a Greenpeace ship after its activists scaled an offshore oil platform in the Arctic last week. The step signaled that the authorities intended to act decisively to thwart more protests against Russias ambitious plans to expand energy exploration in the region, according to The Chronicle Herald. The ship has since been towed to port in Murmansk, arriving Tuesday. Its crew of 30, held incommunicado since the seizure, includes citizens of 18 countries, raising the prospect of a diplomatic confrontation given the gravity of the piracy charges, which carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and The Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, was seized by Russian border guards in international waters in the Pechora Sea last Thursday, a day after several members of the crew tried to board the Prirazlomnaya platform, which is operated by the Russian state energy giant Gazprom. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.