{"id":33632,"date":"2025-07-25T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/forth-road-bridge-closed-after-greenpeace-abseil-protest\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:07:00","slug":"forth-road-bridge-closed-after-greenpeace-abseil-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/forth-road-bridge-closed-after-greenpeace-abseil-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Forth Road Bridge closed after Greenpeace abseil protest"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Greenpeace protesters abseiled from the Forth Road Bridge during the protest<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Forth Road Bridge has been closed after environmental protesters began abseiling off the side in a demonstration against a tanker carrying fracked gas.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace said 10 activists were taking part in the protest against the Ineos ship Independence, due to arrive at Grangemouth on Friday.<\/p>\n

The group accused the firm, and its owner, Jim Ratcliffe, of attempting to sabotage a global plastics treaty due to be voted on by UN member states in Switzerland next month.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland have urged drivers and pedestrians to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Images from the scene show protesters on wires holding red banners displaying a number of slogans decrying Ineos’ influence in the plastics industry.<\/p>\n

Shipping data shows the tanker, which sails under the flag of Malta, arrived in the Firth of Forth in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greenpeace said the “climbers” were being supported by a rescue team on the bridge and a boat below and would remain suspended 25m (82ft) above the Firth of Forth’s main shipping lane.<\/p>\n

An RNLI boat was dispatched to the scene from a nearby station.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland said they were “engaging” with those involved.<\/p>\n

The bridge has been closed to private transport since 2018 following the opening of the Queensferry Crossing and is now used as a public transport corridor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greenpeace accused Ineos of attempting to influence the signing of a global plastics treaty<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In a statement, Greenpeace claimed Ineos, the UK’s largest manufacturer of plastics, was planning to send “hundreds of lobbyists” to the meeting of UN members in Geneva between 5 and 14 August.<\/p>\n

The organisation has called on governments to commit to cutting global plastic production by at least 75% by 2040.<\/p>\n

More than 200 nations met in South Korea in December last year for what was scheduled to be the final round of negotiations on the treaty.<\/p>\n

However, those talks collapsed after a group of oil-producing nations<\/a> rebelled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greenpeace programme director Amy Cameron said she was concerned Ineos and owner Ratcliffe, who also owns a minority stake in Manchester United, would “do everything they can to stop” an agreement being signed.<\/p>\n

She added: “Ratcliffe tries to distract us with sports teams and sponsorships, but we’re not going to let him fill our planet with plastic, so he can fill his pockets with profit.<\/p>\n

“Ratcliffe is trying to block a strong Global Plastics Treaty, so today we’re blocking him.”<\/p>\n

Ineos has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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