British Petroleum And Tanker Safety

EDM number 1177 in 1992-93, proposed by Simon Hughes on 18/01/1993.

That this House condemns British Petroleum's policy, as stated in an internal memorandum, of avoiding involvement in public debate about tanker safety; notes with alarm that BP's memorandum also highlights a number of weaknesses in safety practice and regulations; urges BP to cease using sledge-hammer legal threats to prevent Greenpeace's publication of their memorandum; calls on BP and other oil companies and tanker operators to re-route oil tankers away from narrow channels such as the Fair Isle and Minches; and further calls on Her Majesty's Government to make environmental sensitivity the primary consideration in licensing operators in the fourteenth licensing round for oil exploration.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs.