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

Scottish court rules that environmental group defied court order banning the protestGreenpeace 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. Continue reading...