Tug protest
Tug protest
Five Greenpeace activists were fined after three of them chained themselves to a tug while two dived to tie chains to its propeller in a bid to prevent the dumping of the Brent Spar. The incident happened in Aberdeen harbour in June as the tug was preparing to tow the redundant Shell installation to its dump site in the North Atlantic. All admitted causing a breach of the peace.
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