‘No winners’ from BP-Greenpeace North Sea battle, OGUK say
"No winners" have resulted from a 12-day North Sea standoff involving BP and climate group Greenpeace, accordinging to the representative body for the oil and gas sector.
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Police to make arrests in effort to end North Sea standoff
Police Scotland is seeking to make further arrests as it attempts to bring an end to a bitter North Sea standoff between oil giant BP and the climate activist group Greenpeace.
Government ‘strangely silent’ on BP-Greenpeace standoff
Both the UK and Scottish governments have been strangely silent on the highly dangerous game of cat and mouse being played out in the North Sea between an offshore giant and activists from Greenpeace.
Crisis talks in bid to end Greenpeace-BP rig standoff
Oil and gas chiefs are today to hold crisis talks in an effort to bring to an end a “dangerous” stand-off between climate activists and oil giant BP.
BP-Greenpeace standoff will have significant economic consequences
The immediate economic consequences of the BP-Greenpeace standoff over the Vorlich field are obvious: the drilling operations are delayed and, as operations of this type are very costly, only a few days can have a considerable impact.
Updated: Union boss tells Greenpeace to ‘back off’ as rig forced into second U-turn
A trade union boss has urged environmental activists to “back off” and let North Sea rig workers get on with their jobs.
Oil rig forced to make U-turn by Greenpeace ship
Greenpeace said one of its ships blocked an oil rig's path to a North Sea field yesterday afternoon.
Updated: Industry chief says Greenpeace ‘undermining’ its own credibility with rig protest
An oil industry leader has accused Greenpeace of “undermining its own credibility” by reviving its protest on an oil rig in Cromarty Firth.
Updated: BP reportedly takes out injunction on Greenpeace ship
Oil giant BP is understood to have taken out an injunction against a Greenpeace ship headed for the Cromarty Firth.
Protestors climb back onto oil rig
Greenpeace activists have climbed aboard a BP-contracted oil rig in the Cromarty Firth again.
Police arrest oil rig protesters
Police have stormed an oil rig on a helicopter to arrest two protestors and bring a Greenpeace demonstration to an end.
Police look to move in to remove activists occupying Transocean rig
Police Scotland are "poised" to move in to remove protestors from an occupied BP-contracted rig in the Cromarty Firth, according to Greenpeace.
North Sea rig protestors face court
Two Greenpeace campaigners faced court yesterday accused of tethering themselves to an oil rig in an ongoing demonstration.
Activists appear in court over oil rig protest
Two environmentalists have appeared in court in connection with a protest that has brought work on an oil rig to a standstill.
Lifeboat launched as Greenpeace protestors in ‘precarious position’
A lifeboat was earlier launched today to attend an oil rig in the Cromarty Firth that is currently being occupied by Greenpeace protestors.
Transocean serve Greenpeace activists with injunction over oil rig standoff
Activists occupying a BP-contracted oil rig in the Cromarty Firth have been served with an injunction by the owner in a bid to halt a two-day standoff, Greenpeace UK has claimed.
Update: Activists commandeering North Sea rig vow to ‘continue occupation’
Greenpeace activists have vowed to continue their occupation of a BP-contracted oil rig in the Cromarty Firth.
Greenpeace shuts down BP headquarters on eve of AGM in Aberdeen
Greenpeace has shut down BP’s headquarters in London on the eve of its annual general meeting in Aberdeen.
Greenpeace targets West Hercules oil rig in protest to Arctic drilling
Greenpeace has boarded an oil rig in Norway in protest to drilling plans in the Arctic.
Opposition to fracking rising amid concern about earthquakes
Opposition to fracking has risen with more than a third of people against the process, a Government survey suggests.
Mixed reaction to nuclear project suspension
Unions have urged the Government to step in and help take Wylfa forward, after plans for the multibillion-pound new nuclear power station were suspended.
Energy minister fumes at UK over scrapping of green subsidies
The UK Government's cancellation of the domestic solar export tariff has been called a "sophisticated rip-off" by industry bodies, with Scottish projects "particularly hard-hit".
OPINION: Infrastructure removal better for circular economy than derogation, Greenpeace says
As we stressed in our evidence to the Select Committee, in continuing to support the removal of offshore oil and gas installations at end of life, Greenpeace is in line with the approach to decommissioning that was only months ago reaffirmed by all 15 countries that are party to the OSPAR Convention, including the UK.
Offshore wind sector deal in ‘final stages’
Energy minister Claire Perry has revealed the offshore wind sector deal is in the “final stages” of being agreed.
The long road to fracking in Lancashire
It has been a long, controversial road to the start of "fracking" to extract shale gas from deep underground at Preston New Road, Lancashire.