TITLE

Brent Spar rewrote the rules

AUTHOR(S)
Grove-White, Robin
PUB. DATE
June 1997
SOURCE
New Statesman;06/20/97, Vol. 126 Issue 4339, p17
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discusses the environmental lessons from the great Greenpeace-Shell clash about the Brent Spar oil platform in 1995 for companies and environmentalists. Resonant symbol created by Greenpeace; Shell's wounded-giant status as a focus for campaigning groups; Greenpeace's challenge to the opening up of an oil province on the Atlantic Frontier; Developments in the politics of the global environment. INSET: So where's the Brent Spar now?..
ACCESSION #
9707103717

Tags: ENVIRONMENTAL policy;  GREENPEACE International

 

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