Shell Action

A group of Glasgow activists decided to take Her Majesty the Queen's lead and pay Shell Oil a visit on its 100th anniversary. As they stupidly forgot the birthday cards and Beaujolais they had to improvise their own celebration. This involved one group D-locking shut the main Shell depot, splattering the premises with red paint and old sump oil and tying timely reminders of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his fellow Nigerian activists to the main gate (they were murdered two years and two days prior to Shell's anniversary).

The gate action allowed another group to gain access unnoticed to the top of a storage tanker and unfurl a 40foot 'No blood for oil' banner. The three plucky party-goers were duly arrested, charged with breach of the peace and banned from Shell premises while the gatecrashers, shocked at their poor reception from ungrateful Shell employees, left to find a better party!