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Latest Greenpeace protest could cost oil company £8m

The environmental protest against deepwater oil drilling off Shetland could cost an estimated £8 million if demonstrators are able to carry out their threat and live on the anchor chain of a drilling boat for 30 days.

Activists from Greenpeace are now concealed in a yellow fibreglass pod suspended 20ft above sea level from the Stena Carron vessel, which was brought to a halt by protesters about one mile from Lerwick Harbour on Monday.