Judge fines Greenpeace £80,000 over North Sea oil rig occupation

Scottish court rules that environmental group defied court order banning the protest

Greenpeace has been fined 80,000 after a Scottish court found it guilty of the wilful defiance" of a court order banning it from occupying a North Sea oil rig.

Lady Wolffe, sitting in the court of session in Edinburgh, said Greenpeace UK had deliberately broken an interdict, or injunction, against occupying a platform owned by the US contractor Transocean in June 2019.