Green | July 28, 2010 | 8 comments

Greenpeace Volunteers Shut Down all London's BP stations

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/27/bp-stations-pumps-closed-greenpeace

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This morning, starting at 5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers shut down 50 BP stations across London.

The activists stopped the flow of gas to the pumps by removing the safety switches from the pumps, operating the safety shutdown, and closing the pumps. Greenpeace's volunteers plan to return all the switches later but until then the pumps will be out of action.

The teams - each named after an animal threatened by BP's reckless oil exploration - fanned out across the capital in their electric and hybrid cars, going station to station and disabling the pumps.

Why on July 27th? Because BP is expected to announce the appointment of Bob Dudley as the company's new head to replace the screw-up prone Tony Hayward, who led BP during the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/27/bp-stations-pumps-closed-green...

See more of the story here:
http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2010/07/27/greenpeace-acti...
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