Greenpeace activists on Monday climbed aboard a Seadrill drilling rig commissioned by Equinor in protest against oil and gas drilling in the Norwegian Arctic, the group told Reuters. Four activists climbed aboard the West Hercules rig, the organization said. The vessel is anchored off Hammerfest, continental Europe’s northernmost town and the site of an Equinor liquefied natural gas plant, Snoehvit. “We clearly are in the middle of a climate crisis that cannot take any new oil, so we must show our resistance in any way we can,” said Frode Pleym, the head of Greenpeace Norway. The activists are from Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the group added, and carried a banner that said “Stop Drilling in the Arctic” in Norwegian. The rig is due to drill a […]