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    • For 15 years the Brent Spar, a floating structure made largely of concrete and steel, served as a crude oil storage tank and loading buoy. It was decommissioned in 1991, and in April 1995, Greenpeace campaigners clambered aboard the Spar as she lay at anchor off Shetland.
    • After three months of mounting protest, and despite the support of the British government, Shell announced that it was not going to sink the Spar as planned but recycle it.
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