Removal of the Leman BK platform and its return to shore at Able UK's Teesside Environmental Recycling and Reclamation Centre is an example of how the majority of the North Sea's offshore structures will be decommissioned in the future. Shell Expro was in the centre of a political storm in June 1995 when Greenpeace forced it to abandon plans to dump the Brent Spar loading buoy in deep Atlantic waters.