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January
23rd 2000
Greenpeace Blocks Shipment
of GE Soybeans For Animal Fodder
Copenhagen,
January 23, 2000 --- Greenpeace today took direct
action against the unregulated imports of genetically
engineered animal fodder to Denmark. About 40 activists
from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Germany
have climbed two cranes in Aarhus harbour, preventing
the ship Legionario from unloading its shipment
of genetically engineered soy-pellets intended for
animal fodder. The Legionaro transports a cargo
of 45.000 tons of soy-pellets.
Press Release 000123
Action site (Only
in Danish)
January
14th 2000
EU must say no to Norwegian
whale-export
This Friday EU will consider the export of whale
products. The background is several downlisting
proposals from Norway and Japan to CITES, the organization
responsible for regulating trade with species. Greenpeace
warns that free trade will lead both to increased
pirate catch and quotas.
- Even today, without export, threatened species
like the humpback whale ends up on the Japanese
market. As there are no international control mechanisms
securing the thereatened species the problem with
pirate catch will increase if export is resumed,
says Frode Pleym at Greenpeace.
Press Release 000114
December 29th 1999
Greenpeace
Helps Local Volunteers After The Erika Oil Spill
As oil from the tanker Erika comes ashore on the
coast of Britanny, Total Fina have failed to provide
adequate help to receive the oil removed from the
beaches despite their commitments. Local volunteers
and the local authorities are doing what they can,
and in a bid to help the situation, Greenpeace today
started the delivery of containers to store the
oil.
Press
Release 991229
December 6th, 1999
Dioxin emissions from
waste incineration up to 50 times higher than authorities
claim
The total emissions of dioxin from municipal waste
incineration are between 10 and 50 times higher
than claimed by the Swedish Environment Protection
Agency (SEPA). This is the conclusion of a report
on dioxin emissions to resdiues from waste incineration
that was presented today by Greenpeace.
Press
Release 991206
The
Report Piles Of Dioxin (html,
180k)
The report in pdf-format
Acrobat
reader (for pdf)
November 30th, 1999
European Nuclear
Phaseout Starts in Sweden
After almost two years of legal struggle, reactor
1 on the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebaeck
was finally shut down today. According to Greenpeace
the closure of the reactor could be the first step
in a phaseout of nuclear power throughout Europe.
Pressrelease
991130
Pictures
991130
November
24th, 1999
Greenpeace welcomes
new policy commitment from IKEA on ancient forests
In a joint press conference with Greenpeace today,
the international home furnishings retailer IKEA
made a major public commitment in favour of the
environment by announcing that IKEA is phasing out
all purchases of products made from unknown sources
of wood to ensure that no wood originates from ancient
forests.
Pressrelease
991124
Re-Source:
Market alternatives to Ancient Forest Destruction
Buying
Destruction: A Greenpeace report for corporate consumers
of forest products (pdf 2,9Mb)
Acrobat
reader (for pdf)
November 15th, 1999
Victims of Shooting to Stand Trial
Today eight Greenpeace environmentalists will have to stand trial in Stavanger county
court in Norway after they took part in a peaceful demonstration in international waters
last July. The protest turned dramatic when the captain on board the whaling ship Kato
fired rifle shots at a Greenpeace inflatable.
Pressrelease 991114
Latest News From
the Trial
November 15th, 1999
Polar Bears Starving Due to Climate Change
Polar bears are under threat of
starvation from climate change due to melting sea ice, a new study from
scientists with the Canadian Wildlife Service concludes.
Pressrelease 991115
Background
November 10th, 1999
Greenpeace Urges Nordic Council to Act Urgently
Against Nuclear Pollution
Greenpeace called on Nordic Council ministers meeting today to seize a historic chance to
end nuclear pollution of Nordic coasts by Britain and France. Data collected by Greenpeace
last year showed that radioactive contamination of seaweed with technetium-99 (Tc-99) from
Sellafield was increasing rapidly in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The Norwegian Radiation
Protection Authority has also reported Tc-99 contamination in Nordic waters, and extensive
contamination of sediments and seawater with plutonium from both Sellafield and La Hague.
Pressrelease 991110
Political background
information
Greenpeaces submission
to the Nordic Council
November 3rd, 1999
Nuclear power not a solution to the climate problem
A number of nuclear power nations, among them Sweden and Germany, at the climate meeting
in Bonn today declared that nuclear power is not a solution to the climate problem. The
declaration is a drawback for the nuclear industry, which has more than 100 lobbyists at
site in Bonn.
Pressrelease 991103
October 25th, 1999
Schroeder at Climate Convention Meeting:
Nice Words But Where Is the Substance?
BONN, Oct 25, 1999 - Greenpeace described German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder's unexpected call to have the Kyoto Protocol to combat
climate change ratified by the year 2002 as a step forward for the
international climate negotiations but questioned Germany's own timetable
for ratification and its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases.
Schroeder called for a ratification deadline at a speech given today at
the opening of the climate summit in Bonn.
Pressrelease 991025
October 22nd, 1999
Ekofisk Dismantling:
Greenpeace sees Boost for Onshore Decommissioning Industry
Greenpeace today welcomed Phillips Norway´s proposal to decommission onshore all fourteen
steel oil platforms from the North Sea Ekofisk I field, as a significant step that will
boost the development of the onshore decommissioning industry.
Pressrelease 991022
October 22nd, 1999
Mild Sentence for Greenpeace
Stavanger/Stockholm: The judgment was delivered from Stavanger’s county court this
afternoon in the trial against the Greenpeace activists that partook in a peaceful
demonstration against commercial whaling in June 1999. While two activists received 10.000
NOK fines, a third activist received a 3.000 NOK fine, despite the fact that the
prosecutor asked that all three be sentenced to pay 15.000 NOK in fines each. The activist
who received the 3.000 NOK fine is 40 year old Mark Hardingham, who was brutally run over
by the Norwegian coast guard during the action in mid June.
Pressrelease
Background information on the whale
campaign
October 14th, 1999
U.S. Senate Failure to Ratify Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty
Greenpeace today condemned the U.S. Senate vote to kill the landmark Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty as a gross dereliction of its duty to protect the public, the planet and future
generations. Greenpeace is accusing the U.S. of acting like a rogue nation rather than a
leader on nuclear non-proliferation.
International
Press Release, October 14th
October 14th, 1999
The Prosecutor Changed The Charge Greenpeace Satisfied
So Far
Today was the last day of the trial against the Greenpeace activists involved in a
peaceful demonstration against commercial whaling last summer. The Prosecutor felt obliged
to change a central part of the charge. The judgement is expected next week.
Press Release,
October 14th
Pictures
on Mark Hardingham
Background Information
More about the Greenpeace Whale
Campaign 1999
October 12th, 1999
The police investigates the Coast Guard after a
serious incident
On Wednesday October 13th a trial begins in Stavanger County Court against three
Greenpeace activists involved in a peaceful demonstration against commercial whaling in
mid-June. Among the defendants is Mark Hardingham who was violently run over by the Coast
Guard during a boat chase. Hardingham has filed a complaint.
Press Release
October 12th
Background Information
More about the Greenpeace Whale
Campaign 1999
October 5th, 1999
Greenpeace and Wind Industry Unveil Global
Energy Blueprint
Wind energy can provide 10 per cent of the world’s electricity requirements by 2020,
create 1.7 million jobs and reduce global carbon dioxide emissions by more than 10 billion
tonnes, according to the findings of a new international report commissioned by
Greenpeace, the European Wind Energy Association and the Forum for Energy and Development.
The report, Wind Force 10: A Blueprint To Achieve 10% of the World’s Electricity from
Wind Power by 2020, was released today at the Financial Times World Renewable Energy
Conference in Brussels, ”the first major business summit on renewable energy”.
Press Release 991005
Background
to the report
Order the report from Mats Holmberg
October 4th, 1999
Japanese Nuclear Accident Exposes Japan`s Failed
Safety Culture on Eve of Arrival of Plutonium Shipment
Tokyo, September 30th, 1999 --- The accident at the Tokaimura nuclear site earlier today
exposes once again the lack of an adequate safety culture in Japan, said Greenpeace.
The explosion and contamination of workers at the government run site north of Tokyo,
comes less than 24 hours before the arrival of a shipment of weapons-usable plutonium at
the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. The plutonium shipment is now at the
center of a scandal due to the producers of the fuel, British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), having
admitted to falsifying important safety data during production. The owners of the Takahama
reactor are now investigating the scandal, but Greenpeace believes that they are still
trying to limit the investigation and ignoring basic
safety standards.
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