press releases
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Four Greenpeace volunteers have occupied a second oil exploration rig in Cromarty Firth, Scotland, as part of a campaign to stop dangerous climate change and protect marine life in the north east Atlantic. The occupation comes just days after two Greenpeace climbers occupied the Jack Bates exploration rig in the same area. Both rigs are due to begin drilling operations in the deep waters west of the Hebrides (the so called "Atlantic Frontier") which is Europe's most important habitat for whales and coral reefs.
Last edited 29 March 2000 at 9:00am
Manaus, Brazil 22 March 2000 - Greenpeace announced this morning, aboard its new vessel, the Amazon Guardian, the beginning of a four-month tour through the various rivers of the Amazonas and Para States to denounce illegal logging in this Amazon region. Next week, the boat will head to the Purus and Jurua rivers. "The Amazon Guardian will broaden our capability to investigate and collect data about the Amazon reality." said Paulo Adario, Greenpeace's Amazon campaigner in Manaus.
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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
Reacting to the news that two farmers, listed by the DETR last week as part of 31 taking part in the GM farms scale trial programme, have pulled out in response to local opposition, Andy Tait, Greenpeace GM campaigner said,
" It is great news that farmers have responded to this strong local rejection of GM trials by pulling out of the farm scale trial programme,
Last edited 21 March 2000 at 9:00am
Committee will decide on next round of GM plantings
The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) meets tomorrow morning (10/3/00) at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) to agree the national programme of GM crop trials for 2000.
Last edited 21 March 2000 at 9:00am
Greenpeace welcomed today's announcement by German Environment minister Juergen Trittin, that Germany will ban imports of plutonium fuel (MOX) from Britain until it was satisfied with Sellafield's safety standards, as "a good first step to ending Britain's plutonium trade for good".
"BNFL's dreams of a plutonium empire have collapsed," said Greenpeace nuclear campaigner Helen Wallace, "It's time for Tony Blair to bite the bullet and recognise that reprocessing and Mox production are dead-end technologies being promoted by dead-beat company."
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Greenpeace Executive Director, Peter Melchett said,
''Prescott and Meacher have done a good job sticking to the 20% target and in stressing the need for much deeper future cuts in fossil fuel emissions to protect the climate. Now the Government has to deliver - wind, wave and solar industries will have to supply all our electricity - but in the UK these big businesses of the future are being ignored while New Labour worries about the needs of the declining oil industry" Significantly, the Government has outlined its long-term strategy in the following two areas:
