Greenpeace climbers scale the deepwater oil rig “Centenario”, located 100 kilometers away from the coast of the State of Veracruz, in Mexico and deploy banners that read “Choose clean energy” and "Oil = climate change". Greenpeace calls for an end to deepwater drilling and sends a strong message to all the nations that will soon meet in Cancun for the COP16 UN conference that it is time to end our addiction to fossil fuels.


Activists climbed 39 meters over the water a the deepwater oil rig off the coast of the State of Veracruz, Mexico to call for an end to deepwater drilling. The message on the banner: Go Beyond Oil.

The oil rig is chartered by PEMEX and is currently conducting geophysics, geotechnical explorations and testing the deepwater drilling technology. There are plans for a new deepwater rig (Bicentenario) to join this one by the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011 to start exploring oil in the Cinturon Plegado Perdido, an oilfield close to the U.S. border.
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