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LEGO HAS SAID that Shell will no longer be allowed to sell its toys sets, following a Greenpeace campaign.
The Danish toymaker decided not to renew its contract with the oil giant after a viral campaign highlighted the dangers of Arctic drilling.
Environmental activists Greenpeace launched the above video in July, which shows a Lego Arctic landscape with a Shell drilling platform become submerged by oil.
Lego’s CEO Joergen Vig Knudstorp told AFP that the company didn’t want to be involved in the dispute and called on Greenpeace to engage with Shell directly.
Greenpeace / TwitterToday LEGO dumped Shell (yay!) - here's why it matters to us all http://t.co/gJOGDUbTrn via @jamesturn @HuffPostGreen pic.twitter.com/QnC79rbQJk
— Greenpeace International (@Greenpeace) October 9, 2014
Nevertheless, the company has decided not to renew their three-year deal with Shell, which allowed them to distribute toy sets to customers in 30 countries when they bought 30 litres of fuel.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has plans to drill in the Arctic coast of Alaska, but did not pursue them in 2013 or 2014 because of technical problems handlings and adverse weather conditions.
Greenpeace described the announcement as ”fantastic news”.
The organisation is extremely vocal in its opposition to drilling in Arctic waters, saying an oil spill in the area would have a disastrous impact on the marine environment.
Additional reporting: Associated Press
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Time for justice for victims of state murders.
@Mick Curran: Agree.. Hope the U.S. will also be held to account for the shooting down of the Iranian airliner also.
@Donal Desmond: The Americans admitted they mistakenly shot down plane and also paid compensation to victims families.
The worlds governments should ban all flights to and from Russia until Russia admits its crime and pays compensation to all families of the deceased passengers.
Putin will just give them the two fingers.
What’s the point.
Annexed Crimea and terrorists in Ukraine.
Europe and US just sit back and continue to trade
@Splat: And so he should. He was perfectly right to whip back Crimea after the tramp Poroshenko was installed. All he would need to do in retaliation if flights were banned is close Russian airspace.
have your say