Greenpeace activists have unfurled a massive anti-fossil fuel canvas by renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor on a North Sea platform in a rare protest on an active offshore gas rig, the group said Thursday.

Seven Greenpeace climbers scaled Shell's Skiff gas platform, 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast in eastern England, and attached the 12-metre (40 feet) by eight-metre (26 feet) work, entitled "BUTCHERED".

They then pumped 1,000 litres of a "blood-red" mixture, composed of seawater, beetroot powder, and non-toxic dye, onto the canvas.

British-Indian artist Kapoor said the work reflected the "butchery" that oil companies are "inflicting on our planet."

BUTCHERED is a "visual scream that gives voice to the calamitous cost of the climate crisis, often on the most marginalised communities

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