As reported in media outlets, British oil company Cairn Energy had filed legal papers with a Dutch court to fine Greenpeace €2m a day if the campaign group continued to disrupt its oil drilling operations in the Arctic. This came after Danish marines boarded Cairn's Leiv Eiriksson drilling platform early on June 2 and evicted two Greenpeace climbers who had spent four days in a survival pod attached to the drilling platform.
Cairn said in the court documents: "The defendants are preventing the exploitation of the platform. All delay of the platforms during its journey to the respective drilling locations and each hindrance during the drilling activities will lead to delay of the operations. Plaintiffs estimate the damage resulting from delay to those drilling activities at least $4m (£2.5m) per day. The urgent character of the plaintiffs demand thus speaks for itself."
The legal summons, heard on June 6 in Amsterdam where Greenpeace's ship is registered, asked the judge to "… order defendants to cease all unlawful activities within one hour of handing down the judgment in this matter against the platforms and to order their employees, their aids or their sympathisers to cease all unlawful activities against the platforms, to allow the safe and unhindered exploitation of the platforms, at a penalty of €2m for each day or part thereof during which defendants are not complying with this order."
On June 9, a Dutch court granted Cairn an injunction against Greenpeace resulting in that for every day Greenpeace disrupts Cairn’s drilling operations it will incur a penalty of €50,000 up to a maximum of €1m.
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