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9780419240907

Decommissioning The Brent Spar

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  • ISBN13:

    9780419240907

  • ISBN10:

    041924090X

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-05-12
  • Publisher: CRC Press

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Summary

Decommissioning the Brent Sparchronicles the events of a Greenpeace demonstration against Shell and their plans to dispose redundant oil storage in a Norwegian fjord.

Author Biography

Paula Owen is now Director of the Best Practice for Sustainable Development Unit at Forum for the Future, London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(13)
What was the Brent Spar?
14(16)
Decommissioning and the BPEO process
30(12)
The scientific debate
42(11)
The use and abuse of precedent
53(5)
The siege
58(27)
The capitulation
85(20)
The aftermath: July--August 1995
105(11)
The way forward: the search for a solution
116(18)
The Brent Spar legacy
134(9)
Epilogue: was the Brent Spar a `good' or a `bad' thing?
143(10)
Appendix 1: International law and agreements 153(8)
Appendix 2: The long list 161(6)
Notes 167(9)
Bibliography 176(2)
Index 178

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