press releases
Last edited 6 December 2001 at 9:00am
 |
| Sheffield incinerator: the capped chimney |
Three Greenpeace volunteers today (6/12/01) pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal damage in connection with the occupation of Sheffield waste incinerator in May. Their case was directed to Crown Court for trial.
Last edited 4 December 2001 at 9:00am
The United Nations International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued a significant ruling on the case brought by the Irish government against the UK Government over the controversial Sellafield nuclear complex. The Tribunal, made up of 21 judges, issued a unanimous ruling that puts pressure on the UK to stop the operation a new plutonium fuel manufacturing facility, the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP).
Last edited 29 November 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace tells local authorities 'no need to build incinerators'
International environment group Greenpeace has produced a guide for UK local authorities, which explains how to deal with the mounting national waste crisis without resorting to unpopular and polluting waste incinerators.
Last edited 27 November 2001 at 9:00am
Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace go to Court of Appeal
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth will now take their battle to stop the MOX plant at Sellafield to the Court of Appeal. The move follows last week's ruling by Mr Justice Collins that the Government hadn't acted unlawfully in giving the highly controversial plutonium fuel plant the green light. The Appeal will be heard on 27 and 28 November.
Last edited 22 November 2001 at 9:00am
Terrorism Bill threatens to prevent people throughout the world from knowing about British nuclear shipments along their coasts
Last edited 22 November 2001 at 9:00am
BNFL and it's subsidiary Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd, owns 7 ships which transport nuclear waste fuel and other nuclear materials, including plutonium, around the globe.
The ships carry nuclear waste fuel from BNFL's overseas customers in Japan, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands to its notorious Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. The ships also carry nuclear waste fuel from the same overseas customers to the French version of Sellafield, La Hague.
Last edited 21 November 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace today published aerial photographs of British Nuclear Fuel's Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria to show people the sheer scale and range of nuclear activities that go on there. The pictures pin-point many of the dangerous processes that take place at the plant, which pollute the environment and result in highly radioactive material being transported across the UK. These include the Calder Hall reactor, the THORP plutonium reprocessing facility (one of the biggest buildings in Europe) and the controversial new MOX fuel plant which the Government hopes to open in December.
Last edited 21 November 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace will argue for an immediate ban on new waste incinerators at the Government's 'Waste Summit', held today (21/11/01) in London. The environment group will present a policy aimed at achieving maximum possible reductions in the disposal of municipal waste and propose a new way forward in waste management involving waste reduction, re-use, recycling and composting.
Last edited 20 November 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace will risk imprisonment to keep public informed of secret nuclear ships
Greenpeace published today images and details from the surveillance of a BNFL ship in North Scotland loading a consignment of weapons-usable plutonium.
Last edited 19 November 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace today promised to keep telling the public about the dangers of the nuclear industry despite proposed legislation that would make this illegal and inflict a prison sentence of up to seven years for offenders. Today (Monday 19th) is the second reading of the Government's Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, which contains measures to stop people publishing information on nuclear technologies, nuclear sites and the transport of nuclear materials (1). If the Bill became law it would impact on both journalists and campaign groups.
