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Castor 2011: news from a besieged province of Part 8, 18.45 clock
Laase: this is where the two possible transport routes from Dannenberg to Gorleben meet, six kilometers from the interim storage. Straw bales glowing, white smoke, the wind direction is in line Castor, light poles to the police, eight water cannons alternately move up and keep at bay the village.
Confusing and impressive
It's a Tuesday evening in late November and pleasantly warm. Not because climate change is already advanced so far that is regularly exceeded in Germany at this time of year, the 20 degree mark. Ne! But with climate change, it has yet to do something, because I am a Greenpeace teenager from Germany, 12,000 miles further south in Durban to participate in the climate conference, which started here yesterday.
Agro-biotechnology: neither modern nor progressive
Spain within the EU is the paradise of agro-biotechnology: At just under 100,000 hectares finished growing in Germany with a cultivation ban GM maize MON810. That is roughly a third of the Spanish maize cultivation. Among other things on a Greenpeace office organized by the Spanish international meeting in Madrid last week, I was allowed to convince them that there are still good reasons against genetic engineering in the field.
Advent in the Wendland
On 25 November rolled back 'nuclear waste on rails' going on in France's La Hague and is on its way to Gorleben. Eleven Castor containers with highly radioactive nuclear waste will then be carried across France and Germany carted half.On Saturday, 26.11.2011 instead found a large demonstration in Dannenberg.
Impressions from Open Boat of the Rainbow Warrior III
What a ship!From Thursday, 20 October to Tuesday 25 October was our newest ship, the Rainbow Warrior III, the port of Hamburg.The Open Boat the Rainbow Warrior III in Hamburg was a successful event that has made all involved very much. Under the brilliant blue sky, we have welcomed on Saturday and Sunday alone, over 4400 people on board.
Member of Parliament is not allowed in the Gorleben interim storage facility
Four members of the Bundestag Environment Committee wanted to visit today popularly known as “potato barn” mocked Castor hall to get an idea of the security situation there. But despite prior notice of their visit and an oral commitment of the Society of Nuclear Operating Company service they were not allowed to enter the intermediate warehouse.
The story of the Rainbow Warrior
In spring 1978 the Rainbow Warrior for the first time is used – for a campaign against Icelandic whaling. 26 years ago, then the devastating attack of the French secret to the ship, where one dies and sinks, the Greenpeace flagship of the organization. But the legend lives on in the Rainbow Warrior II and will continue to be written with the Rainbow Warrior III.
Porpoise Action Week in Ozeaneum of 17 to 23 October
Right at the beginning of the autumn holiday in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, we start again with our wide Action Week in Ozeaneum in Stralsund. Porpoises are small, gray and endangered, that's why they are our main focus of the campaign week. Porpoises in the North and Baltic Sea belong to the subspecies occurring in the Atlantic, Phocoena phocoena.
Greenpeace and VW: More correspondence
There's good in VW! We therefore call on just to be “ex VW Bring on the dark side” to participate in our campaign.Many people also write individual e-mails and send copies to VW. This has us particularly liked:Ladies and gentlemen of the VW management,We apply ourselves as part of the Greenpeace campaign “The Rebellion” to you.
On the trail of dirty laundry – Part IV
As part of the detox campaign Manfred Santen, chemistry expert at Greenpeace, and Simone Miller, spokeswoman for Greenpeace, one week in China in order to make himself an image and get an impression of the Chinese textile industry. Simone Miller tells of the events and impressions from China in the Greenpeace blog.