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Greenpeace occupies deep-water drilling ship near Shetland Islands
image credit: Greenpeace UK
A Chevron vessel has been occupied by Greenpeace activists in an attempt to stop oil drilling in the waters of Scotland’s Shetland Islands.
The US oil firm has dubious company in the region, which is deemed to have some 2 billion barrels of oil, in the form of the BP who also plan on drilling near Shetland for oil and gas.
They are preventing the anchor from being pulled up and effectively blocking the ship from moving to its drill site. We are calling on North Sea governments to adopt a ban on all deep-water drilling.
–Greenpeace (via UPI)
According to a report in the Guardian, Greenpeace claims it could continue occupying the Chevron ship for up to a month.
The activists are based on the same Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, that only last month confronted Cairn Energy’s exploratory drilling project in the Arctic off the coast of Greenland.
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