La Coruna, 14 October 1999 - After spending the night at the Headquarters' prison of the Guardia Civil of Coruna, the Greenpeace volunteers arrested yesterday after a non-violent action against the Sogama Incinerator Plant were brought into Coruna's Court in order to testify.
Among the 20 arrested are campaigners from Madrid, Galicia, the British captain of the MV Greenpeace and most of its international crew. All of them participated yesterday in the peaceful blockade of the construction of an incineration plant the Government of Galicia is building in Cerceda.
"An incineration plant able to release to the environment more than 20 grams of dioxins per year, threatening public health and the environment," declared Pablo Mascarenas from Greenpeace in Spain. "It will never help solve the waste problem as a third of all the rubbish that comes into the incineration plant comes out as toxic ashes and slag".
Greenpeace has addressed the local councils to ask them not to participate in the incineration plant and instead start new programs of integral recycling, like other cities like Barcelona, Navarra, Cordoba have initiated.
La Coruna action update
14 October, 1999
Article tagged as: incineration, press releases
