21 Oct 2019

OSPAR held a special consultative meeting in accordance with OSPAR Decision 98/3 on the Disposal of Disused Offshore Installations today in London. On Friday 18 October 2019 a meeting was held in London in accordance with OSPAR Decision 98/3 on the Disposal of Disused Offshore Installations. The Decision prohibits the dumping, and leaving wholly or partly […]

10 Sep 2019

Guardian: ‘The British government is facing growing outrage from the European commission and five EU member states over its plans to leave some decommissioned oil rigs in the North Sea, with one senior German official describing the UK’s proposal as a “grotesque idea” that amounts to a “ticking timebomb”. Several hundred oil drilling platforms in […]

12 Jun 2017

Although the Jonny Hughes article has recently grabbed some headlines – earlier this year Jonathan Porritt developed a similar argument in articles based on work by Forum for the Future. This comes after the historic campaigns sought to stop the sea being used as a cheap dumping site for industry and bans on this practice. […]