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About 30 members and supporters of Oil Free Otago assembled on St Clair Beach on Saturday, as part of the global Hands Across the Sand event.
Organised to commemorate the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the rally doubled as a protest against Austrian oil company OMV, which plans to drill a series of exploration and appraisal wells off the Otago coast in the Great South Basin.