Since 2001, certain initiatives have been taken in regard to forcing the closure of the plant at Sellafield. In October 2001 the Government stated it would take a case against it to the European Court of Human Rights. This has not yet happened. In November 2001 the Government failed to prove that the Republic's rights, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, had been breached. In November 2001 Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth failed in the High Court in London to stop the start-up of the MOX plant at Sellafield. In April 2002 campaigners sent 1.3 million cards – one of them from me – to the British Prime Minister in Downing Street which called for the closure of the plant. In September 2002 the Government and environmentalists protested at the passage of a nuclear waste ship through the Irish Sea en route to Sellafield. In October 2002 Ireland took a case for the release of confidential information on the plant under the OSPAR Convention but the claim was rejected. In June 2003 a case was taken to The Hague under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.