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Greenpeace comes clean on Brent Spar error
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NICHOLAS SCHOON
Environment Correspondent
Shell yesterday welcomed a Greenpeace apology for publicising a
seriously mistaken estimate of the amount of oil left on board the
Brent Spar.
At the height of its successful campaign against the dumping at
sea of Shell's redundant oil storage buoy, Greenpeace claimed the
Brent Spar could have more than 5,000 tons of oil still in its
tanks. Shell said there was only 100 tons of an oily sludge inside.
Greenpeace UK's executive director Peter Melchett has admitted
the estimate was a mistake in a letter to Shell UK chairman, Dr
Christopher Fay.
The energy ...
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