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Last edited 28 March 2000 at 9:00am
Police are still searching for two Greenpeace volunteers who vanished after abandoning their occupation of an oil rig.
The protesters had tied themselves to Enterprise Oil's Jack Bates platform in the Cromarty Firth on Sunday and spent the night there before coming down at 1600 BST on Monday. Grampian Police then lost sight of them.
The protesters left the rig after being ordered to come down by a judge in Edinburgh who granted Enterprise Oil an interdict.
Last edited 27 March 2000 at 9:00am
Britain's leading environment and conservation groups are calling on John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, to prevent further oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Hebrides (the 'Atlantic Frontier'). The joint letter comes from the following organisations:
Environmental Investigation Agency
Friends of the Earth England and Wales
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Greenpeace
Marine Conservation Society
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Wildlife Trusts
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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| A Greenpeace protester hangs a banner from an oil rig in Cromarty Firth, Scotland |
Enterprise Oil has sought an interdict (a Scottish injunction) against Greenpeace to remove two climbers that are currently occupying the Jack Bates oil rig on the Cromarty Firth.
Last edited 26 March 2000 at 9:00am
Greenpeace occupies the Jack Bates oil rig in bid to protect wildlife and the climate
Last edited 24 March 2000 at 9:00am
In November 1999 Greenpeace secured a landmark High Court ruling that the government's oil licensing policy is illegal, and must immediately stop, until the long-term survival of the Atlantic Frontier's wildlife is secured. Greenpeace proved that the government was breaking European Law by failing to protect the areas whales and dolphins under the EU Habitats Directive.
Last edited 24 March 2000 at 9:00am
Atlanic Frontier - oil exploration and wildlife
The UK Government is allowing oil industry vandalism of the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Scotland. This spring, oil companies plan to drill three wells in these waters - the most important in Europe for rare whales and coral reefs
Last edited 21 March 2000 at 9:00am
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The BP Amoco AGM - will Sanity prevail?
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Greenpeace launched a new internet initiative to enable customers of high street banks, insurance companies and pension funds to find out if their money is being invested in a damaging new BP Amoco Arctic oil development.
Last edited 20 March 2000 at 9:00am
Greenpeace Arctic ice camp
Two Greenpeace volunteers and a British photographer were arrested last night attempting to expose oil company BP Amoco's destruction of the Arctic. The three were documenting BP Amoco's Arctic oil project when they were arrested by Alaska State troopers. The arrests occurred just before the arrival of a party of journalists invited by BP to visit the construction site of Northstar - the first offshore oilrig in the Alaskan Arctic Ocean.
Further information:
Contact:
Greenpeace Press Office on 020 7865 8255
Last edited 26 January 2000 at 9:00am
Shareholders to choose between arctic oil or solar factory
A hundred shareholders holding over 120,000 shares today (26/1/00) forced BP Amoco's Arctic exploration plans onto the company's annual general meeting agenda by submitting a formal resolution opposing BP's controversial 'Northstar' project. Investors in BP Amoco will now have the chance to vote on whether the high-risk rig and sub-sea pipeline project in the Arctic Ocean should go ahead. The move will also give BP Amoco's 800,000 shareholders a chance to prevent the company from lobbying for the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the only part of America's Arctic completely off-limits to oil exploration.
Posted by bex — 25 January 2000 at 9:00am
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BP branding
SANE BP is an umbrella group for BP investors who are concerned about climate change, and currently includes Greenpeace, the US Public Research Interest Group and many individual socially responsible investors. SANE BP offers intelligence, advice and encouragement to BP shareholders, large and small, who share our aim to move the company away from damaging oil exploration, and towards renewable energy.
