Greenpeace fined £80,000 over 12-day North Sea protest
Greenpeace UK has been fined £80,000 for breaching a court interdict during a 12-day protest on a drilling rig.
Campaigners boarded the Transocean rig in the Cromarty Firth on 9 June. It had been bound for the Vorlich oil field east of Aberdeen.
BP, which contracted the rig, said at the time the climate change campaigners had acted in a "reckless" manner.
After the court ruling, Greenpeace said it had simply been "trying to protect the planet".
Judge Lady Wolffe said she considered handing the organisation's executive director John Sauven a suspended jail sentence, but had decided to exercise "leniency".
She said: "Without Greenpeace's active support and resources, none of those who attempted to board the rig would have been able to do so."
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