Taxpayers foot £140,000 bill for police overtime during Greenpeace’s Cromarty Firth rig protest
ByDavid McPhee
A Helicopter lands on the BP-operated rig, to deal with Greenpeace activists who boarded it.
Picture by Sandy McCook
A recent North Sea protest row that erupted between BP and Greenpeace cost the taxpayer nearly £140,000 due to Police Scotland clocking up hundreds of hours of overtime.
The stand-off, involving the environmental activist group blocking the progress of a
BP-contracted rig, lasted 12 days.
Police were called on the evening of June 10 when it was discovered campaigners had commandeered the Paul B Loyd Jnr rig as it tried to leave the Cromarty Firth.
