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Greenpeace to slash staff and spending
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GREENPEACE is about to make swingeing cuts in staff and
spending, despite the most successful months in its 25-year
history.
Both Greenpeace International, which co-ordinates 30 national
bodies, and the British branch of the world's biggest environmental
pressure group are drawing up plans to sack campaigners and
severely pare their budgets even though the organisation is
enjoying unprecedented publicity and prestige after its victory
over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform in...
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Covering itself in glory
The Independent - London
; ... have recently taken to carping. Looking back on the Brent Spar coverage, David Lloyd, senior commissioning editor of Channel 4 news and current affairs, told the Edinburgh Television Festival last week: "We were bounced. By the time broadcasters tried to introduce ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Greenpeace means business.(Greenpeace's success as a multinational organization)
The Economist (US)
; BUSINESSMEN as well as governments tend to shudder at the name of Greenpeace. In June the group's campaigners humiliated Royal Dutch/Shell, Europe's biggest company, over its plans to dump the Brent Spar, a redundant oil platform, at sea. More recently it has turned its fire on the French
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Two days that sealed fate of redundant rig : THE BRENT SPAR AFFAIR
The Independent - London
; Shell's long agony over the Brent Spar began with one meeting and ended with another, both in the Netherlands. The first took place on 11 April, in the Amsterdamheadquarters of Greenpeace International. The atmosphere was tense but upbeat. A decision was rapidly made to occupy the Brent Spar, and
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Brent Spar Affair: Two days that sealed fate of redundant rig
The Independent - London
; Shell's long agony over the Brent Spar began with one meeting and ended with another, both in the Netherlands. The first took place on 11 April, in the Amsterdamheadquarters of Greenpeace International. The atmosphere was tense but upbeat. A decision was rapidly made to occupy the Brent Spar, and
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Green campaigns chief looks to the cold-blooded touch
The Independent - London
; Remember Friends of the Earth? This year, the green pressure group has been almost totally eclipsed in the media's universe by Greenpeace, thanks to its rival's campaigning over the Brent Spar and French nuclear testing. But the chairperson of Greenpeace International's advisory board, Uta Bellion,
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Greenpeace takes aim at French firms
The Independent - London
; NICHOLAS SCHOON Environment Correspondent Greenpeace has begun planning an international boycott of French state- owned companies and French firms involved in the nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll. Amsterdam-based Greenpeace International believes a well-supported boycott of products like Renault cars
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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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Major resists Kohl over Shell dumping
The Independent - London
; MICHAEL SHERIDAN AND NICHOLAS SCHOON John Major yesterday publicly rebuffed the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl who is seeking to challenge the sinking of Shell's Brent Spar oil storage buoy at today's summit of the group of seven industrialised nations in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Prime Minister
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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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