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GREENPEACE activists escalated their occupation of a Shell oil drilling platform in the North Sea today, despite the company taking legal action in an attempt to block the protest.
The 34,000-tonne platform is being carried by a heavy-lift seagoing vessel to North Sea oil drilling sites.
On January 31, Greenpeace mounted a daring raid on the platform, with four activists boarding and occupying it.
Shell responded by seeking and winning a court injunction that included a ban on the Greenpeace vessels which carried the boarders from approaching the platform.
Greenpeace instead used other vessels for a second raid, adding two new occupiers.
The group is demanding that Shell, which announced record profits of £32.2 billion on Tuesday last week, “stop drilling and start paying” for damage caused by climate change.
One of the new occupiers, climber Silja Zimmermann, said: “We will not let Shell silence us.
“The world needs to hear about Shell’s ongoing plans to further heat up the planet, increasing climate devastation without paying a cent towards rebuilding the carnage we’re seeing.”
