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Troubled waters as Shell men storm the Spar
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The first sign the retaking of the Brent Spar was under way was
when a giant crane swung into action just after dawn yesterday.
A steel cage was hoisted across from a mobile diving platform
stationed alongside the rig's helicopter landing deck. I watched as
Greenpeace activists who had occupied the oil storage buoy for 23
days tried to swing the cage away, but it was too heavy and the
crane operator too skillful.
As the cage touched down on the rig, 15 security staff, senior
mana...
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Shell helicopters were on way to storm Brent Spar
The Independent - London
; SHELL came within hours of storming the Brent Spar oil platform from the air last week to evict the Greenpeace protesters occupying it. Helicopters carrying police and Shell UK security officers were on their way to the rig for a dramatic high seas finale when an extraordinary meeting of chief
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The Voyage of the Brent Spar
The Washington Post
; AS ITS VOYAGE across the North Sea continues, the Brent Spar is generating a venomous dispute among the governments of Northern Europe. An obsolete North Sea oil rig, the Brent Spar was to have been sunk in water more than a mile deep far to the northwest of Scotland. But then Greenpeace
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Shell Apologizes for Nixing Plan to Sink Oil Rig in Sea
The Journal Record
; LONDON (AP) _ Shell UK Ltd. apologized to Prime Minister John Major on Wednesday for bowing to protests and abandoning a plan he had defended to scuttle a giant oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean. But the humiliated Conservative government said it would make Shell pay for the abrupt change, which would
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Lessons of the Brent Spar
The Washington Post
; By confusing corporate public relations with political reality, The Post has made it excruciatingly clear to readers that "The Voyage of the Brent Spar" {editorial, June 24} had little to do with the current debate over ocean dumping and quite a lot to do with defending sacred cows. Shell's
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Greenpeace rig squatters ready to repel boarders
The Independent - London
; Yesterday Greenpeace was preparing to repel boarders on the Brent Spar. Metal bars have been welded across windows and the helideck has been closed with barricades. Today, provided Shell does not strike to reclaim its gigantic oil storage buoy, they will be doing the same thing . . . and again
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Oil rig squatters 'risk their lives' 1/54point
The Independent - London
; Shell has warned Greenpeace activists that they are risking their lives in occupying the abandoned Brent Spar, a North Sea oil storage buoy the size of a skyscraper. Eight days ago a crew from the campaigning environmental group took possession of the 14,500-tonne buoy. Yesterday they said they
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Just think: it could be you! on that oil rig
The Independent - London
; Well, finally the time has come to decide what we are going to do with Brent Spar, the floating disposable oil rig that Shell have found so difficult to throw away and which is now resting in a Norwegian fjord. And the way we are going to do it is this. We are going to run our eyes down the
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Brent Spar falls to boarding party
The Independent - London
; BY LEONARD DOYLE Greenpeace yesterday pledged that its campaign to prevent the Brent Spar being dumped at sea would continue despite the fact that Shell were back in control of the rig. The final phase came when leader Jon Castle, 44, was forced out of his hiding place in one of the bottom levels
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Experts warned: 'Don't dump rig'
The Independent - London
; NICHOLAS SCHOON and JOHN ARLIDGE on board the MV Solo Government scientists strongly opposed the dumping of the Brent Spar at sea because of the danger of toxic contamination, according to a leaked memo seen by the Independent. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food scientists were worried
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ANOTHER VIEW; Brent Spar hangover
The Independent - London
; ... towards the end of the campaign pointed out at Edinburgh that only by being on site could he verify what was happening. But if a news organisation decides not to cover the event, it is hardly fair to blame Greenpeace for offering its video footage. Greenpeace ...
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