Product Description
The Brent Spar saga has become an environmental icon of the late nineties and its recent conclusion will have repercussions into the twenty-first century.
From the Back Cover
In 1995 the giant oil company Shell obtained a UK Government licence to dispose of the redundant oil storage and off-loading platform, Brent Spar, by sinking it in the deep North Atlantic. The Greenpeace occupation of the Spar in May 1995 in protest against this plan, and the resulting controversy leading to Shells capitulation in late June, dominated the news media, not only in Britain and Europe, but around the world. It was to be a further three years before the UK government issued a licence for the final disposal of the Spar, this time involving its re-use in a quay extension in Norway. In the meantime, the Brent Spar affair had had significant effects on the commercial world, government and environmental groups and was widely seen as a victory for common sense and the environment over the vested interest of big business.
But there was, and still is, a great deal of confusion surrounding the Spar, with claims and counterclaims from all sides about the rights and wrongs of the situation, and ev
