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		</div><p>Protesters have climbed onto two North Sea oil platforms to campaign against leaving parts of the old rigs in the sea.</p>
<p>Greenpeace International said activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark had boarded Shell’s Brent Alpha and Bravo platforms on Monday as part of a protest against plans by the company to leave parts of old structures in the North Sea.</p>
<p>The climbers scaled the platforms, which are no longer operational and lie north-east of the Shetland Islands, and hung banners saying, “Shell, clean up your mess!” and “Stop Ocean Pollution”, the environmental group added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Activists board <a href="https://twitter.com/Shell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Shell</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/oil?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#oil</a> rigs in protest against plans to leave behind oil in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthSea?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NorthSea</a> <a href="https://t.co/dGCDixDmHn">https://t.co/dGCDixDmHn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectTheOceans?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ProtectTheOceans</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OSPAR?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OSPAR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/osparcomm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@osparcomm</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jennifer Morgan (@climatemorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/climatemorgan/status/1183692178385768448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>It said that Shell’s decommissioning plans will leave parts of four Brent oil platforms at sea with a total of around 640,000 cubic metres of oily water and 40,000 cubic metres of oily sediment containing more than 11,000 tonnes of oil.</p>
<p>Campaigner Dr Christian Bussau said Shell’s plans to leave parts of the four Brent platforms at sea were a “scandal”.</p>
<p>He said: “Shell’s plans are a scandal and go against international agreements to protect the environment.</p>
<p>“With escalating climate emergency, biodiversity loss and species extinction, we need healthy oceans more than ever.</p>
<p>“Abandoning thousands of tonnes of oil in ageing concrete will sooner or later pollute the sea. Shell must be stopped.”</p>
<p>Greenpeace International said that although a ban on dumping installations and platforms in the North East Atlantic ocean was agreed in 1998 Shell has requested an exemption from the UK Government.</p>
<p>It called for governments to protect the ocean and “not cave in to corporate pressure”.</p>
<blockquote><p>For us to have a future, toxic oil companies like Shell must have no future</p></blockquote>
<p>Dr Bussau said Shell’s “reckless business model” threatened some of the world’s most important ecosystems with extinction.</p>
<p>He added: “Shell is directly fuelling the climate emergency that is causing more extreme storms, floods, droughts and wildfires and bringing misery to millions of people around the world.</p>
<p>The company’s reckless business threatens some of the world’s most important ecosystems with extinction and has to be stopped. For us to have a future, toxic oil companies like Shell must have no future.”</p>
<p>But a Shell spokesman said the company had spent 10 years conducting in-depth research into decommissioning the Brent platforms and its recommendations were the result of more than 300 scientific and technical studies.</p>
<p>He added: “We can confirm that two protesters have boarded the Brent Alpha platform and one has climbed onto the Brent Bravo concrete legs.</p>
<p>“Their safety and that of our workers are our prime concern at this moment.</p>
<p>“Our proposals were submitted only when we were convinced they were the best option: safe, environmentally sound, technically achievable, and socially responsible.”</p>
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