Greenpeace blocks Dutch port to seek climate action - Reuters

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Greenpeace blocks Dutch port to seek climate action
31 Jan 2007 17:14:45 GMT
Source: Reuters

AMSTERDAM, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists blocked Amsterdam's coal
port on Wednesday to demand tough climate change targets from the new Dutch
government and a pledge to stop building new coal-fired power plants.

"We are prepared to stay here for days...as long as it takes to hear from the
politicians in The Hague who are negotiating a new government," a spokeswoman
for Greenpeace said.

Activists seized three cranes at the port earlier on Wednesday to block them
from unloading a ship, carrying 33,750 tonnes of coal to Amsterdam, the
environmental organisation said in a statement.

Other activists in rubber boats blocked the ship's path.

Greenpeace wanted the new Dutch government, expected to be formed later this
week or early next week, to put climate change high on its agenda and freeze
all plans to build new coal-fired power plants, the spokeswoman said.

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1. good on Greenpeace

there's no such thing as "clean" coal power and the sooner we know it the better though you'll not hear that on the media or alot of other people who have got their $$ invested in coal!
Thank God for Activists!!!:toast: