Climbers Return from Oil Platforms on Rainbow Warrior in the North Sea

Greenpeace climbers Lukas, Jonas, Inga of Germany and Ronni of Denmark return to the Rainbow Warrior after spending 24 hours aboard Shell oil rigs in the North Sea.
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.

Unique identifier: GP0STU2T2

Type: Image

Shoot date: 15/10/2019

Locations: Europe, North Sea, Scotland, United Kingdom

Credit line: © Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Protests on Shell Brent Oil Platforms in the North Sea

Greenpeace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark boarded two oil platforms in Shell’s Brent field today in a peaceful protest against plans by the company to leave parts of old oil structures with 11,000 tonnes of oil in the North Sea.

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’.

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