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Contaminated water with the potential to damage human DNA could soon be released into the Pacific Ocean, Greenpeace claims. The utility company operating the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, said last year it will run out of space to store massive quantities of it by 2022. This has added immense pressure on the … Read more
A barrier of boulders in the North Sea designed to prevent destructive bottom trawling has been completed by environmental charity Greenpeace. Greenpeace has placed boulders across the seabed of the 47 square mile Dogger Bank protection area to create a ‘bottom trawler exclusion zone’. The final two boulders in the ‘barrier’ were worked into ‘full … Read more
Greenpeace has vowed to continue dropping boulders into the North Sea — as to stop trawling of the Dogger Bank marine reserve — despite Government objection. According to the environmental organisation, the Government has failed to provide adequate protection for the sandbank, home to crabs, starfish, flatfish and sand eels. These marine creatures are food for … Read more
Greenpeace activists drops boulders in the North Sea to stop industrial bottom trawlers fishing in the Dogger Bank protected area Granite boulders were dropped at select locations covering 50 square miles They were all in the Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation protected region Greenpeace commissioned an independent review to ensure it was done safely The … Read more
Climate protesters who blockaded BP’s headquarters were reprimanded for taking selfies in the dock at magistrates court by the judge presiding their case. The demonstrators, who are largely ‘volunteer workers,’ crowded into the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, and then proceeded to take out their phones and start snapping pictures. Security staff admonished the protestors and the … Read more