The Ust Luga — loaded with Russian jet gas price $116 million — was once on its method to Slagentangen port, about 53 miles south of the capital Oslo, when activists chained themselves to its anchor, Aud Hegli Nordø, a spokesperson for Greenpeace Nordic, advised CNN.
In a bid to dam the tanker from docking, seven Greenpeace activists spark off in boats around the Oslo Fjord waters and chained themselves to the anchor, stated Nordø.
All had been taken into police custody, along with a number of activists from local weather motion team Extinction Revolt who joined the blockade, a spokesperson for Greenpeace showed to CNN. The ER activists had been later launched.
The Ust Luga is now docked in Slagen, in line with monitoring web site Marine Site visitors.
“The truth that our executive nonetheless permits the import of Russian fossil fuels within the present state of affairs is unfathomable,” Frode Pleym, head of Greenpeace Norway, stated in a commentary to CNN.
“I’m stunned that Norway operates as a unfastened port for Russian oil, which we all know price range [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s struggle.”
The Ust Luga tanker is registered in Hong Kong, in line with Marine Site visitors.
“The delivery of oil from Russia isn’t itself a contravention of the sanctions that these days observe within the EU or in Norway,” Ane Haavardsdatter Lunde, a communications adviser for Norway’s Ministry of International Affairs, advised CNN in a commentary. “The Norwegian government due to this fact haven’t any felony foundation to forestall a supply comparable to this.”
“In spaces outdoor the scope of the sanctions, it’s the Govt’s view that every corporate will have to independently make a decision which movements it is going to take past those who agree to the prevailing law,” she added.
A spokesperson for ExxonMobil advised CNN in a commentary that deliveries of Russian gas to Norway “are pleasing contracts that had been in position previous to the invasion.”
“Now we have now not made any new purchases of Russian merchandise because the invasion, and there are not any plans for long run purchases,” she stated.
“We’re absolutely complying with all sanctions, and we enhance the the world over coordinated efforts to deliver Russia’s unprovoked assault to an finish,” the spokesperson added.
— Mark Thompson contributed to this document.
