Early Saturday morning, eighteen Greenpeace activists climbed
the Leiv Eiriksson, a controversial oil rig that is set to begin
drilling in the pristine and freezing Arctic waters off the
coast of Greenland.  The Greenpeace delegation demanded to see
the oil spill response plan, which has been kept secret by Cairn
Energy, despite repeated requests to make it public. The
activists met with the drill manager and requested a copy of the
plan, which you would think would be kept on board, and yet
again were refused.  It seems oil spill response plans are often
fantasies anyway - the Bush and Obama administrations were
approving spill plans for the Gulf of Mexico that were so absurd
they included species that don't even live anywhere near the
Gulf like walruses and sea otters. Perhaps President Obama could
remind other Arctic nations that it was only after a spill that
the US realized just what a farce BP's spill response plan was.
If we'd all seen BP's spill plans, would anyone in their right 
mind have allowed th