Brent decom debate: Evidence vs Emotive
As someone with a keen interest in decommissioning decision making, I have followed the Brent decommissioning saga with that same keen interest.
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Shell’s Brent decom plans are ‘litmus test’ for Ospar – German government
Germany has said a special meeting on Shell’s Brent decommissioning plans will be the “litmus test” for a convention to protect Europe’s marine environment.
Updated: Greenpeace leave ‘toxic waste’ graffiti as they quit Shell’s Brent Bravo
Climate activist group Greenpeace has halted its protest action at a Shell North Sea field, leaving a graffiti slogan on the Brent Bravo platform.
Protestors will remain on Shell’s Brent platforms ‘as long as needed’ – Greenpeace
Greenpeace said last night that protestors would occupy two North Sea oil platforms for “as long as needed” to get their message across.
‘Risk to people’ if concrete structures removed on Shell’s Brent field
An academic has asked whether removing concrete structures within Shell’s Brent platform legs is the right thing to do as such an operation would include risk to life.
Greenpeace protestors scale Shell’s Brent platforms
Greenpeace has announced it is carrying out “peaceful protests” at Shell’s Brent field in the UK North Sea.
Greenpeace protesters who occupied an oil rig in Cromarty Firth spared jail
Five Greenpeace protesters who occupied an oil rig for almost four days costing the operators and the taxpayer more than £500,000 have been spared a jail sentence.
Climate strikes expected to be largest environmental protest in history
Millions of people are set to take to the streets all over the world today in what could be the largest climate protest in history.
Greenpeace protesters partially shut crucial US oil route
The Houston Ship Channel was partially shut Thursday after Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from a bridge spanning the key oil route in protest against the fossil fuel industry.
Greenpeace rig protest highlights operators’ climate concerns
Greenpeace’s recent occupation of a North Sea rig highlights some of the immediate and practical concerns firms have on climate change, according to a lawyer.
UK fracking potential lower than previously thought, study says
The potential to extract shale gas from fracking in the UK could be significantly lower than previously thought, a study suggests.
Shell boss welcomes ‘mobilisation of society’ as oil protests intensify
Shell’s chief executive said yesterday that he welcomed the “mobilisation” of society in the crusade to meet global climate change targets.
Greenpeace activists at risk of prison time over BP protest
Five protesters have admitted their parts in the Greenpeace occupation of an oil rig in the Cromarty Firth last month.
Taxpayers foot £140k Greenpeace-BP protest bill for police overtime
A recent North Sea protest row that erupted between BP and Greenpeace cost the taxpayer nearly £140,000 due to Police Scotland clocking up hundreds of hours of overtime.
Stunts aren’t the solution for climate emergency
It did not take long for declarations of a climate emergency to prompt the kind of episode they are assumed in some quarters to legitimise.
‘No winners’ from BP-Greenpeace North Sea battle, OGUK say
"No winners" have resulted from a 12-day North Sea standoff involving BP and climate group Greenpeace, accordinging to the representative body for the oil and gas sector.
Police to make arrests in effort to end North Sea standoff
Police Scotland is seeking to make further arrests as it attempts to bring an end to a bitter North Sea standoff between oil giant BP and the climate activist group Greenpeace.
Government ‘strangely silent’ on BP-Greenpeace standoff
Both the UK and Scottish governments have been strangely silent on the highly dangerous game of cat and mouse being played out in the North Sea between an offshore giant and activists from Greenpeace.
Crisis talks in bid to end Greenpeace-BP rig standoff
Oil and gas chiefs are today to hold crisis talks in an effort to bring to an end a “dangerous” stand-off between climate activists and oil giant BP.
BP-Greenpeace standoff will have significant economic consequences
The immediate economic consequences of the BP-Greenpeace standoff over the Vorlich field are obvious: the drilling operations are delayed and, as operations of this type are very costly, only a few days can have a considerable impact.
Updated: Union boss tells Greenpeace to ‘back off’ as rig forced into second U-turn
A trade union boss has urged environmental activists to “back off” and let North Sea rig workers get on with their jobs.
Oil rig forced to make U-turn by Greenpeace ship
Greenpeace said one of its ships blocked an oil rig's path to a North Sea field yesterday afternoon.
Updated: Industry chief says Greenpeace ‘undermining’ its own credibility with rig protest
An oil industry leader has accused Greenpeace of “undermining its own credibility” by reviving its protest on an oil rig in Cromarty Firth.
Updated: BP reportedly takes out injunction on Greenpeace ship
Oil giant BP is understood to have taken out an injunction against a Greenpeace ship headed for the Cromarty Firth.
Protestors climb back onto oil rig
Greenpeace activists have climbed aboard a BP-contracted oil rig in the Cromarty Firth again.