Brent Spar Greenpeace

The Brent Spar was a massive oil rig used as a storage tank for oil from the North Sea. It was over 200 miles from Scotland and in the middle of the turbulent waters. At the end of its life, Shell and the British Government wanted to sink it in the North Atlantic. Greenpeace had other ideas and seized the empty structure on 30 April 1995. I was sent by BBC Radio 5 Live to see what was happening.