NBC News reports that Greenpeace accuses Spain’s Navy of one of its naval vessels ramming a dingy carrying activists injuring four during a protest the group conducted against oil drilling near the Canary Islands. The Navy, however, denied the accusations. It dispatched two of its ships to protect a large oil drilling ship so Greenpeace activists couldn’t board an oil company vessel. One of the Greenpeace activists fell out of the dingy and was struck by one of Spain’s ship’s propellers.

The protest is the result of a Spanish constitutional court issuing an injunction blocking the Canary Islands that is part of the Spanish Kingdom from holding a referendum on oil exploration off the coast of an archipelago in north Africa within the Canary Island’s jurisdiction. Had the referendum gone through and passed, oil exploration in the archipelago could have been banned. Fortunately, oil exploration is being conducted and Spain’s navy did the right thing by blocking these nihilists from potentially wreaking havoc on oil drilling there. Yet another instance of environmentalists misstating the truth (dare I say, lie).