Crew on Esperanza in the North Sea

Greenpeace campaigner Christian Bussau (L) and Greenpeace actions coordinator Timo Liebe study a map of the Brent field on board of the Esperanza. According to Shell’s decommissioning proposals, it will leave behind the remains of four platforms in the Brent oil field. Shell estimates three of those platforms contain 640,000 cubic metres of oily water and 40,000 cubic metres of oily sediment with a total content of more than 11,000 tonnes of oil.

In original language:

Brent Ölfeld

Greenpeace Kampaigner Christian Bussau (l) und Greenpeace Aktionskoordinator Timo Liebe studieren eine Karte des Brent-Felds. Nach den Stilllegungsvorschlägen von Shell wird sie die Überreste von vier Plattformen im Brent-Ölfeld zurücklassen. Shell schätzt, dass drei dieser Plattformen 640.000 Kubikmeter ölhaltiges Wasser und 40.000 Kubikmeter ölhaltige Sedimente mit einem Gesamtgehalt von mehr als 11.000 Tonnen Öl enthalten.

Unique identifier: GP0STUR2Y

Type: Image

Shoot date: 22/08/2020

Locations: Europe, North Sea, United Kingdom

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Protect the North Sea: Esperanza Tracking the Fossil Fuel Industry

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is on its way to a month-long documentation and peaceful protest tour in the North Sea. Teams on board will gather evidence of the extreme industrialization of the region by the oil and gas industry, which has been polluting the ocean and fuelling the climate crisis with a “business as usual” attitude for several decades.

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