press releases
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Greenpeace today backed the decision to stop Southampton Football Club selling off seats from The Dell when the ground is demolished this summer. The PVC seats contain high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.
Commenting on the decision, Mark Strutt, a toxics campaigner at Greenpeace, said:
"This is the right decision for both football fans and the environment. The seats should be sent to a special waste landfill as the best of several bad options. If the seats were sold and taken home by fans the plastic could erode over time releasing highly toxic cadmium dust into the home environment."
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Greenpeace UK today called on Tony Blair to invoke Britain's 'special relationship' with the US to help reverse President George Bush's abrupt decision to back off from promises to cut carbon dioxide emissions from US power stations.
Greenpeace climate campaigner Stephanie Tunmore said,
"This is a real challenge for Prime Minister Tony Blair who last week declared a personal interest in protecting the climate. As he said then, Britain's role in the EU and its links with America make it a key country in reaching agreement to reduce greenhouse gases."
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Welsh Assembly Members today heard the results of a Greenpeace funded report into the dangers of allowing the ageing Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey to reopen [1].
Speakers at the launch, held at the National Assembly, included report author, independent nuclear engineer John Large, Assembly Members Mick Bates (Liberal Democrats) and John Griffiths (Labour) and Dylan Morgan from PAWB (People Against Wylfa B/Pobol Atal Wylfa B).
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Mumbai/Chennai, 09 March, 2001
Palni Hills Conservation Council, United Citizens Council of Kodaikanal, Greenpeace and New Delhi-based Toxics Link have dismissed as an "insensitive PR exercise" Hindustan Lever's official response of temporarily suspending production at their polluting mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal. The groups were responding to HLL's attempt to "cover up" their environmental crime by saying that there was a "remote chance" that mercury-containing broken thermometers may have left the factory and attributing it to a possible "human error."
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Greenpeace today re-issued a challenge to BP to come clean on its climate plans. The campaign group put forward an amended shareholder resolution to BP's April AGM after the company rejected the original - along with three others - on a legal technicality.
The resolution now "directs", rather than "requests", BP's Board to publish a report by the end of 2001 outlining how it will make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, in response to climate change. BP's insistence on this one word change means the document becomes a 'Special Resolution' and requires a three-quarters majority vote from shareholders, rather than a simple majority.
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Greenpeace today released a guide to which baby food brands are fully non-GM. The guide, which is part of Greenpeace's Shoppers Guide to GM, can be accessed online or by sending a SAE to Greenpeace.
None of the baby food on sale in the UK directly contains GM ingredients. However it can contain products, such as cheese, eggs or meat, from animals fed on GM feed.
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Greenpeace today condemned Chancellor Gordon Brown for cutting taxes on fuels that cause climate change. The campaign group described the duty cuts on climate-wrecking oil-based fuels as undermining the Prime Minister's newly unveiled green ambitions. The Budget failed to establish a comprehensive programme for real green fuels, and failed to meet the demands of health and environment and responsible motoring groups.
Matthew Spencer, Greenpeace Climate Campaigner, said:
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Kodaikanal, India, March 7 2001, Greenpeace today accused Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, owners of Lipton Tea and Dove soap, of double standards and shameful negligence for allowing its Indian subsidiary, Hindustan Lever, to dump several tonnes of highly toxic mercury waste in the densely populated tourist resort of Kodaikanal and the surrounding protected nature reserve of Pambar Shola, in Tamilnadu, Southern India.
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Glasgow garage: bio-diesel
Greenpeace has taken over an Esso garage and is dispensing free green fuel to drivers. The Green Guerrilla Garage is at 341, Great Western Rd.
Greenpeace volunteers have today stepped up their campaign for real green fuels and locked the diesel pumps at one of Esso's city centre forecourts. In its place, volunteers are offering drivers free bio-diesel - a plant-based fuel that is identical to ordinary diesel but causes only half the damage to the climate. Bio-diesel is widely used in the US, Germany and France, and is guaranteed safe for British motorists, but is not commercially available in the UK [1].
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Bio-diesel: green fuel we can use today
Greenpeace will be giving away thousands of litres of green fuel to motorists in central Edinburgh on Monday 5th March and in central Glasgow on Tuesday 6th March [1]. The Greenpeace Green Garages will be dispensing bio-diesel - a plant-based fuel that is identical to ordinary diesel but causes only half the damage to the climate. Bio-diesel is widely used in the US, Germany and France, and is guaranteed safe for British motorists, but is not commercially available in the UK, despite the fact that Britain exports vegetable oil to France for bio-diesel production [2].
