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North Sea oil: Updates in Greenpeace vs. Chevron
image credit: ©Will Rose/Greenpeace (26/9/10)
After four days of Greenpeace activists hanging in a survival pod attached to an oil drilling ship in the North Sea, a court in Edinburgh, Scotland issued an injunction yesterday ordering the campaigners to leave on grounds of safety.
According to an article in the Observer, oil giant Chevron claimed the need to move their ship due to rough seas, though Greenpeace countered that Chevron simply intends to venture into another site for exploratory deep-sea drilling. Greenpeace announced that it would comply, nonetheless.
Yet just one day later, Greenpeace has renewed its efforts to stop deep-sea oil drilling in the North Sea by swimming in front of the drilling ship, named the Stena Carron.
From a Press Association report:
That oil drill ship is the size of a sky-scraper on its side and as it cut through the water towards us I felt really scared, it’s like nothing I’ve ever done, but we are determined to stop it reaching its deep water drilling site.
–Greenpeace activists Ben Stewart
The swimmers haven’t stopped the massive Stena Carron from reaching its goal, but the action is just one effort in a new wave of tactics from the environmental campaigner in its fight against deep water drilling.
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“I didn’t realise the Stena Carron participated in the Gulf of Mexico spill?”
Well they tried to get the Deepwater Horizon rig, but for some reason it wasn’t available.
Anyway, I get your points about legal channels… which they are also doing now:
“Greenpeace said it was preparing legal action to halt an operation which it has already tried to disrupt by protesting on Chevron’s drill ship and then sending out swimmers in front of the vessel.”
–http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/01/coalition-deepwater-drilling-bp-spill
I guess they are trying all ways to influence what they see as a desperate situation. History tends to judge heroic individuals who break the law for just causes differently after some time has passed: suffragettes, freedom fighters, etc.
I didn’t realise the Stena Carron participated in the Gulf of Mexico spill?
Again, it was Greenpeace who not just lets their campaigners put their own lives stupidly and unnecessarily at risk, but activedly encourages it…
It must be very disheartening to learn that this whole polava has been a completely fruitless publicity stunt, considering they didn’t even delay Chevron’s drilling? Perhaps as I said before, if they were to focus their efforts and money more constructively on the correct channels then they would have a more positive outcome.
Everyone else in the country has to campaign down these routes when they want to make a change, I don’t see why Greenpeace’s impatience and unfounded-elitism should make it any different for them?
“They did not want to put anybody’s life in danger”
Did you read or watch anything regarding what took place in the Gulf of Mexico this year?
In reality, the boat did not easily circle them.
It in fact was completely halted, as they have too much respect for the laws governing them whilst operating in international waters. They did not want to put anybody’s life in danger, unlike Greenpeace who seem willing to do so…
The courts obviously agree, after granting Chevron a SECOND injunction against their unlawful protest.
Fair point and no, I can’t imagine doing it myself, but they are Rainbow Warriors, remember
A lot has been achieved by voluntary bravery and who knows how risky it is in relative terms?. I think they feel they’ve exhausted “correct” channels, though this is obviously more about bringing attention to the issue than doing a reckless act that will stop a giant drilling ship. The boat easily circled around them, after all.
Just ridiculous. Imagine swimming in front of a 228m vessel like teh Carron. What sort of organisation not only lets their campaigners put their own lives stupidly and unnecessarily at risk, but activedly encourages it?
They’re losing all credibility for any good points they may have ever had. Campaign down the correct channels if you really want to make a differen Greenpeace, instead of putting lives at risk. Ironic really – save the planet but sacrifice human life…