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  LONDON – WORLD-WIDE - 12 AUGUST 2010

Greenpeace targets
10 deep sea oil rigs

Greenpeace campaigners have set sail from London to target the world's most dangerous deep sea oil drilling sites.  They say the industry is taking "huge risks" with the environment in its pursuit of oil. Greenpeace ship the Esperanza sailed on Thursday 12 August 2010 to highlight problems with oil that go "far beyond" the disaster at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

The environmental group has not named the 10 deep water drilling locations it plans to target and has pledged to confront the industry head-on over its "reckless" pursuit of oil. The most likely rigs are those off Brazil, the Arctic, Nigeria and the Atlantic west of Shetland.

Greenpeace said it would not announce the ship's ETAs in advance. The target would be selected on factors including drilling depth, number of wells and species at risk from a potential spill.

Leila Deen Greenpeace Climate Campaigner “The oil business is a "sunset industry" and the world needs to move away from an addiction to oil to clean technology which would tackle climate change and create new jobs. It's time to go beyond oil. A handful of powerful companies are taking huge risks with the natural world and our climate instead of developing the clean tools we need to fight climate change and end our crippling addiction to fossil fuels."