From the Financial Post:
EDMONTON – Greenpeace activists who stopped two huge conveyor belts that feed a Suncor upgrader on Wednesday breached the site north of Fort McMurray by floating down the Athabasca River.
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A few weeks ago Greenpeace protesters chained themselves to heavy machinery at Shell’s Muskeg River oilsands mine for 30 hours.
I have to say, Pat Nelson sums up my thoughts quite well:
Last week, Pat Nelson, a former Alberta energy minister who now is vice-chairwoman of the In Situ Oil Sands Alliance, told an oilsands conference in Edmonton that the Greenpeace incursion at Shell was “an act of violence against our livelihoods and reputation, and our future. And a total disregard for the laws of Alberta, all for the sole purpose of making headlines.”
In other news, the Denmark Greenpeace organization have recently got themselves into legal trouble:
In a court verdict on Friday, 10 June, the environmental organisation Greenpeace Nordic was sentenced to pay 30.000 Danish kroner (4.000 €) for being the responsible organisation behind a group of activists, who had climbed to the top of the headquarters of the Danish Agriculture Council in the centre of Copenhagen on 13 October 2003. Having barricaded the entrance with heavy chains and locks they hoisted a banner denouncing the use of GMO food.
Even though they clearly violated private property rights, Greenpeace seems baffled and appaled at the verdict:
“The fine is big for an organisation like ours, who only funds our work through voluntary contributions from individuals. This verdict shows with great clarity that the politicians and others, who expressed concern that the terror law could also be used to other things than to deal with international terrorism, were right. The verdict is a break with the fundamental principals in a democratic society where the individual is responsible for their own actions. This case means that collective punishment have been introduced in Denmark.”
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