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Access blockade actions
Actions and protests
Albright and Wilson
Chemical industry
Day
Greenpeace activists
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Outdoors
Outflow pipes
Protective clothing
Toxic waste
Toxics (campaign title)
Two people
Water
Water pollution
Marchon Outflow Pipe Blockade in UK
Greenpeace pipe blocking at Albright & Wilson's Marchon plant in Cumbria, NW England. On 30 August 1991, Greenpeace successfully prosecuted Albright & Wilson for polluting the Irish Sea with heavy metals in the first private prosecution under the 1989 Water Act but the National Rivers Authority has refused to take any action. (Greenpeace Witness book page 59) (Greenpeace Changing the World page 138)
Unique identifier:
GP0WKK
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
11/09/1991
Locations:
Cumbria
,
United Kingdom
,
Western Europe
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Richard Smith
Size:
3230px × 2117px 2MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
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Marchon Outflow Pipe Blockade in UK
Greenpeace activists block a discharge pipe at Albright & Wilson's Marchon plant in Cumbria. On 30 August 1991, Greenpeace successfully prosecuted Albright & Wilson for polluting the Irish Sea with heavy metals in the first private prosecution under the 1989 Water Act but the National Rivers Authority has refused to take any action.
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