Greenpeace activists board BP oil rig heading for North Sea
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4GVR0)
Campaigners call on firm to abandon plans for new oil wells in face of climate emergency
Greenpeace activists have boarded an oil rig in the Cromarty Firth in protest at plans by BP to drill new oil wells in the North Sea.
Two protesters climbed on to the 27,000-tonne platform as it was being towed out of the firth, which lies north of Inverness, to the Vorlich field at about 6.30pm on Sunday evening. They unfurled a banner bearing the words "climate emergency".
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