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Greenpeace accuses Shell of 'intimidation' as court case looms - Upstream Online

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Greenpeace faces a major legal challenge in the UK as a group of companies, including Shell, look set to demand damages of $8.6 million following a recent oil protest.

Early this year, Greenpeace activists boarded and occupied Shell’s Penguins floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the North Sea as it was making its way to its field location in UK waters.

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