© Greenpeace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark boarded two oil platforms in Shell’s Brent field in a peaceful protest against plans by the company to leave parts of old oil structures with 11,000 tons of oil in the North Sea. (c) Marten van Dijl
© Climbers, supported by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, scaled Brent Alpha and Bravo and hung banners saying, ‘Shell, clean up your mess!’ and ‘Stop Ocean Pollution’. (c) Marten van Dijl
© Climbers, supported by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, scaled Brent Alpha and Bravo and hung banners saying, ‘Shell, clean up your mess!’ and ‘Stop Ocean Pollution’ and ‘Shell, the Ocean is not your dump’. (c) Marten van Dijl
© Greenpeace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark boarded two oil platforms in Shell’s Brent field in a peaceful protest against plans by the company to leave parts of old oil structures with 11,000 tons of oil in the North Sea. (c) Marten van Dijl
© Greenpeace's second occupation of Shell's disused oil installation Brent Spar in 2 months. (Greenpeace 30th Anniversary Images) (c) David Sims.
© Dr. Christian Bussau onboard ARCTIC SUNRISE, North Sea. 1996 (c) Fred Dott
© Christian Bussau, Head of the Task Force Team Greenpeace Germany e.V. (c) Axel Kirchhof
しかし、何十年にもわたって何十億もの利益を上げてきた油田を解体し、環境に配慮した方法で処分する代わりに、英シェル・グループは、英政府からの免除規定を使って、北海の生産施設の一部を残す準備をしている。海面上にあるブレント・プラットフォーム "ブラボー"、"チャーリー"、"デルタ "は解体されるが、残される海面下の構造物は環境にとって時限爆弾である。