Marchon Outflow Pipe Blockade in UK

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09/11/1991

Greenpeace activists block a discharge pipe at Albright & Wilson's Marchon plant in Cumbria. On 30 August 1991, Greenpeace successfully prosecuted Albright & Wilson for polluting the Irish Sea with heavy metals in the first private prosecution under the 1989 Water Act but the National Rivers Authority has refused to take any action.

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