Feature story - 24 August, 2002
Greenpeace found its way into a nuclear power plant in South Africa to kick of the Earth Summit and its call for clean, renewable energy for 2 billiion people within the next ten years.
Greenpeace activists from five countries today launched a pre-dawn protest at Koeberg, Africaís only nuclear power plant as world leaders gather in Johannesburg for the Earth Summit
Six activists from six counties tackled the nuclear facility at
Koeberg in the wee hours of dawn. Three men and three women hung a
sign that read "Nukes Out of Africa". But what were they there for
- what possesses any sane person to go on a climbing mission before
the sun has risen, and on a nuclear power plant at that?
We are here to ensure that governments commit to bring cleaner,
sustainable, renewable energy to the world. This means that
northern industrial countries must expand targets for renewable
energy, substitute clean energy for their existing fossil fuels and
nuclear industries.
At the same time there needs to be a massive expansion of
renewable energy to two billion of the worlds poorest people, who
currently have no access to modern energy services.
This is necessary to tackle the twin evils of extreme poverty
and the global problem of climate change. We think that's worth
getting out of bed for.
What you can do:
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EnviroMen be stopped?
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