Greenpeace climbers block INEOS tanker

25 July 2025

10 of our fantastic highly-trained climbers, from all around the world, are currently hanging from the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland to block the passage of an INEOS tanker, delivering fracked gas from the US to the petrochemical facility in Grangemouth. The climbers are supported by four others on the bridge as well as our expert boat team.

Click here for the press release.

Who is INEOS?

INEOS is the UK’s largest plastic producer, responsible for about one third of plastic production here. They produce 30-35 billion nurdles (pellets) daily at Grangemouth - enough to make a staggering 60 million plastic bottles. It’s owned by Jim Ratcliffe, one of Britain’s richest billionaires. They, along with the usual suspects in Big Oil, have been actively blocking a strong Global Plastics Treaty and lobbying against cuts to plastic production. Earlier this month, a representative from INEOS appeared before a committee of MPs (alongside our very own Rudy Schulkind) and said once again that they do not back production caps. 

They are blocking a strong Treaty - so we are blocking them!

The aim is for the climbers to stay there for 24 hours. They are holding beautiful red flags calling for a ‘Plastics Treaty Now’, designed by Clem, sewn by Chloe in the Workshop and painted by the climbers themselves. 

If you’re yet to add your name to our petition to kick the lobbyists out of the talks, please add your name here.

The next and probably final round of talks on the Treaty kick off in Geneva on August 5th to 14th. These talks represent our best chance to tackle the plastic pollution crisis in a way which prioritises the needs of those most impacted by overproduction of plastic - including Indigenous Communities, waste pickers and those who live near to where plastic is dumped and burned. So it’s essential that Big Oil doesn’t get its way and that we expose the dirty tricks of these lobbyists.

You can read the Q&As here.

• INEOS’s petrochemical plants at Grangemouth account for about one third of UK plastic production,  producing 1.4 million tonnes of plastics annually

• INEOS has increased plastic production capacity by a fifth since talks on a Global Plastics Treaty began in November 2022

• The INEOS Tanker ‘Independence’ (the target) is carrying 27,500 cubic metres of fracked American gas (ethane)

• Every day 40,000 barrels of petrochemicals arrive INEOS’s sites at Grangemouth and Rafnes in Norway

• Every day 30-35 billion nurdles (plastic pellets) are produced at Grangemouth. (600-700 tonnes, equivalent to 300 rhinos!) - enough to make 60 million plastic bottles

• Every 16 hours (minimum window of the action) 20-23 billion pellets are produced (400-470 tonnes, equivalent to 200 rhinos) -  enough to make 40 million plastic bottles

INEOS is responsible for over a million tonnes of CO2 emissions from its Grangemouth site, representing over 4% of Scotland’s total emissions.