Stop Deep Sea Oil Court Case in New Zealand

Elvis Teddy and his wife Patricia Rata at Tauranga District Court with members of Te Whanau a Apanui, Greenpeace, and members of the public rally in support of Elvis Teddy, the skipper of a fishing boat that was involved in the 2011 Stop Deep Sea Oil Flotilla. Teddy is on trial at the Tauranga District Court on charges arising from his part in the protest action, carried out during a Petrobras-commissioned seismic survey off the East Cape.

Unique identifier: GP047N4

Type: Image

Shoot date: 26/07/2012

Locations: Aotearoa, Oceania, Tauranga

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Tracy Hardy

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Stop Deep Sea Oil Court Case in New Zealand

The Stop Deep Sea Oil Flotilla was formed to protest against Brazilian oil company Petrobras’ plans to drill for oil in the deep waters off the East Cape. In April and May 2011, the flotilla engaged with and successfully disrupted a seismic survey the company was running at the time. It was during this engagement that Elvis Teddy, the skipper of a te Whanau a Apanui-owned fishing boat, was arrested. On 26 July, 2012, he was acquitted on the charges relating to his arrest. A judge at the Tauranga District Court ruled that the section of law the authorities were operating under had no jurisdiction past 12 nautical miles from the coast.

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