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TXU Europe and Greenpeace deliver solar justice for victims

Last edited 25 April 2000 at 8:00am
25 April, 2000

A children's adventure playground in East London is making solar-power history by becoming the first electricity customer in the UK to receive solar justice - thanks to Solarnet - a breakthrough deal offered by energy company TXU Europe with the support of Greenpeace.

Jury fails to convict Greenpeace volunteers fails in Lyng GM trial

Last edited 19 April 2000 at 8:00am
19 April, 2000

The Jury in the trial of the twenty-eight Greenpeace volunteers charged with criminal damage and theft at Norwich Crown Court has acquitted all the volunteers of theft and failed to reach a verdict on criminal damage.

The announcement, made today (19/4/00), means that the Crown Prosecution Service must now consider whether to seek a retrial. The volunteers had gone on trial on April 3rd on charges relating to a Greenpeace action at Lyng, Norfolk, on 26th July, 1999, where part of an experimental crop of genetically modified (GM) maize was cut down and sealed in bags as part of a campaign to prevent genetic contamination of the environment.

BNFL's rescue plan woefully inadequate

Last edited 18 April 2000 at 8:00am
18 April, 2000

Today's response by BNFL to February's three damning inspectors' reports on Sellafield is woefully inadequate, Greenpeace said. The environmental group highlighted the continuing threat to human health and the environment from BNFL's nuclear reprocessing plant and BNFL's failure to address fundamental production and quality control problems.

Greenpeace was responding to BNFL's Chief Executive, Norman Askew, who today announced a major management restructuring and a two-year action plan called "Going Forward Safely".

Environmentalists and investors take arctic protest to BP Annual General Meeting

Last edited 12 April 2000 at 8:00am
12 April, 2000

A coalition of environmentalists and investors from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, have combined to challenge BP Amoco's oil expansion plans in the Arctic and the company's lack of action on climate change.

Greenpeace activists continue confrontation at BP arctic oil site for second day

Last edited 11 April 2000 at 8:00am
11 April, 2000

Beaufort Sea, Alaska, 1700 BST, -- For the second day running, Greenpeace activists confronted the construction of BP's controversial Northstar offshore oil project. Braving wind chills of minus 50 degrees F (-46C), activists towed a fiberglass dome into the construction area with two Greenpeace activists locked inside, while UK activist Martin Cotterell and one other protestor made for the man-made gravel island to display banners reading, "Stop BP's Northstar, Save the Climate".

Greenpeace activists confront BP Amoco at arctic oil site

Last edited 11 April 2000 at 8:00am
11 April, 2000

Beaufort Sea, Alaska, 7pm (UK time) - In an effort to protect the Arctic from the dual threats of climate change and oil spills four Greenpeace activists attempted to stop the controversial pipe-laying operation at BP's Northstar project, the first offshore oil project to be built in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast. One activist managed to climb onto the backhoe laying the pipe and displayed a banner reading "Stop BP's Northstar". The pipe-laying operation is currently stopped. Police have now arrested all four Greenpeace activists.

Greenpeace calls on Japan and Norway to withdraw proposals to overturn trade ban on whales

Last edited 10 April 2000 at 8:00am
10 April, 2000

April 2000: As the Japanese whaling fleet today offloaded its cargo of 440 minke whales hunted illegally in the protected Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Greenpeace called on Japan and Norway to withdraw their proposals to resume international trade in whales.

Japan and Norway are aggressively lobbying other countries to support their proposals to overturn the international ban on trade in whale products at next week's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in Nairobi, Kenya (1).

An exhibition of Glastonbury '99 paintings by Kurt Jackson

Last edited 10 April 2000 at 8:00am
10 April, 2000

A unique opportunity to own paintings of REM, Blondie, Doves and many more. All donations support Greenpeace and Oxfam

Kurt Jackson, who lives near Penzance and is known for his Cornish landscapes, was invited by Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis to become the festival's first artist in residence in 1999. He kindly donated all his work from the event to raise funds for Greenpeace and Oxfam.

Trial of Greenpeace 28 - Peter Melchett to give evidence

Last edited 3 April 2000 at 8:00am
3 April, 2000

On Tuesday, 4th April at Court 2 of Norwich Crown Court Peter Melchett will be giving evidence in the case of 28 Greenpeace volunteers charged with criminal damage and theft.

The charges arise from a Greenpeace action in July 1999 when volunteers attempted to prevent a crop of GM maize in Norfolk from flowering.

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Leaked nuclear agency figures back Danish initiative to end nuclear repocessing

Last edited 31 March 2000 at 9:00am
31 March, 2000

A leaked Nuclear Energy Agency report, released today by Greenpeace, contains key evidence which supports Denmark's international initiative to end nuclear reprocessing.

"The industry's own figures prove that Denmark is right to claim that ending reprocessing immediately at Sellafield and La Hague is feasible and would stop the main sources of nuclear pollution," said Greenpeace scientist Dr Helen Wallace, "It is a scandal that this report has been kept hidden for so long."

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