Joe Gunawan's List: CSUN | Capstone

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.