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Greenpeace activists confront Shell Chairman Jorma Ollila

vjuvonen — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:30:00 +0200

Greenpeace activists from Finland and Russia met Shell Chairman of the Board Jorma Ollila at Helsinki University this morning. They asked Mr Ollila to stop oil drilling in the Arctic. Shell, led by Mr Ollila, tried to drill north of Alaska last year but failed. On 7 April he signed a tentative deal to start oil drilling in the Russian Arctic with Gazprom.

”The people of Northern Russia want to know how Shell can guarantee safety of the pristine Arctic environment and habitat of millions of Indigenous people. Neither Shell nor any other company in the world can mitigate oil spills in the Arctic. Do you realize that Shell along with with Gazprom, Rosneft, Statoil, Exxon, Eni will will be fully responsible for the destruction of the Arctic”, asked Roman Dolgov, Greenpeace Arctic campaigner in Russia.

Greenpeace activists delivered their message to Ollila also with images with Shell oil rig Kulluk on the ground in Alaska and images with oil spill destruction caused by Shell’s partner Gazprom in Noyabrsk, Yamalo-Nenets.

Shell failed in the drilling project on Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea on drilling season 2012. This shows clearly that the company is not able to handle the risks involved in Arctic drilling. The failures culminated on grounding of the oil drig Kulluk in Alaska.

”Shell is looking for more oil from the melting Arctic to warm the climate even more. At the same time the company threatens the pristine nature with the risk of an oil spill. The Board of Directors make decisions on company’s strategy and Chairman Ollila has an exceptionally heavy responsibility. He can save the Arctic”, said Tapio Laakso, Greenpeace Programme Manager in Finland.

Greenpeace International has also launched a whistleblowing website today to encourage employees and subcontractors of oil companies involved in Arctic drilling to come forward and help expose the incredible risks corporations are taking as they look to plunder the resources of this pristine region.

Posters advertising the new website are appearing today in the streets surrounding the London offices of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell — one of the biggest oil companies leading the Arctic resource rush. Flyers are also being handed out to employees outside the company's headquarters in the UK and the Netherlands.

www.savethearctic.org

www.arctictruth.org

For more information, please contact:

Programme Manager Tapio Laakso, phone +358 40 181 6559Arctic Campaigner Matti Ikonen, phone +358 40 025 7755Communications Manager Juha Aromaa, phone +358 50 369 6202

Greenpeace activists protest at site of largest Finnish chemical catastrophe in history

Juha Aromaa — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:50:00 +0100

A metal mine in a large pine and spruce forest in Northern Finland leaked highly contaminated water into the surrounding nature at a speed of 5000-6000 cubic metres an hour between Sunday and Wednesday night. Unknown amounts of contaminated are still leaking out of the damaged waste water pool. The water contains high concentrations of nickel and uranium that is toxic, bioaccumulating and radioactive.

With at least 600 000 cubic metres of highly contaminated water having leaked out of the damaged pool, and several creeks and lakes completely damaged, Greenpeace activists are today at the spot to take samples of the water and bear witness to a heart breaking environmental damage.

“What we witness here today is devastating. The lands of thousands of lakes has surely lost some of its lakes – and it’s beauty. Standing here by this leak of highly contaminated water, watching it flow in over the rocks, trees and grass just makes my heart ache. Authorities have no answers to what will happen to this area and the rivers in the future or how it will affect the people downstream when it reaches that far,” says Greenpeace campaigner Matti Liimatainen who is leading the sample taking group in the forest.

“We and the local group demonstrating with us today demand an immediate stop to the operation of the Talvivaara mine and an external expert group to assess the disaster and whether Talvivaara can be trusted to ever operate again.” The disaster started Sunday when the plastic coating at the bottom of the Talvivaara mine waste pool got a large breach, leaving to cover between the poisonous water and the surrounding nature. Greenpeace will announce the results of the analysis next week.

Photos of the activities in Kajaani and Talvivaara, Northeastern Finland

More information: Juha Aromaa, Communications Manager, phone +358 50 369 6202

Pole Dancers Dance for Ice and Save the Arctic

eberger — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:11:00 +0200

Greenpeace launches a swinging campaign to save the Arctic – Dance for Ice. Everybody can do some pole dancing for the North pole, no matter whether you are a professional or never tried before. The challenge is open for everybody. Have a pole (a tree, a street lamp or what ever you can find), some music and do a move to support declaring a sanctuary in the Arctic.

The campaign is launched today online at dance4ice.org. All the moves for the ice will be presented on the website.

- This is a great opportunity for everyone to join the 1.3 million people who have already given their support to the Arctic by doing a simple and fun move, or by voting for other people's version of "The Arctic move". At the same time you are signing a petition on savethearctic.org, says Therese Jacobson, Greenpeace Arctic campaigner.

Warming climate is opening up the Arctic oil drilling and commercial fishing. The oil giants Shell and Gazprom are already planning to drill in the Arctic waters, Shell within weeks. Particularly oil drilling involves enormous risks for the environment as there is no known technology to clean inevitable oil spills in such harsh conditions.

- Arctic belongs to everyone. Our climate depends on its cooling impact. It is an unique environment that belongs to whole mankind, not just those who want to exploit it. That is why the world leaders have to declare the Arctic a global sanctuary”, says Jacobson.

http://www.dance4ice.org

High quality photos for download

Read more about arctic campaigning at greenpeace.org/arctic

Media contacts

Åsa Mendel-Hartvig, Press Officer, Greenpeace Nordic / Sweden
Phone +46 703 03 36 49 email asa.mendel-hartvig@greenpeace.org

Juha Aromaa, Press Officer, Greenpeace Nordic / Finland
Phone +358 50 369 6202, juha.aromaa@greenpeace.org

Therese Jacobson, Arctic campaigner, Greenpeace Nordic / Sweden
Phone +46 72 226 07 84 email therese.jacobson@greenpeace.org

Greenpeace wins the dispute over Nestespoil.com spoof site

Juha Aromaa — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:15:00 +0200

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has denied the complaint by Neste Oil over Greenpeace spoof site. The WIPO panel declared that Greenpeace may use the domains www.nestespoil.com and www.nestespoilreturns.com to criticize Neste Oil’s use of palm oil as biofuel.

The panel confirmed that non commercial criticism is part of the freedom of expression. According to the panel Greenpeace did not use the sites to unnecessarily tarnish Neste Oil. In similar cases even harsh criticism has not been considered as tarnishing. The Panel concluded that Greenpeace had been using the sites to raise legitimate environmental concerns for non-commercial purpose.

Use of palm oil as biofuel is unsustainable as it threatens rainforests, climate and the biodiversity of South East Asia such as endangered orangutans.

”WIPO’s decision is significant for the freedom of expression. Neste Oil is one of the biggest single users of palm oil in the world. For that reason the criticism was clearly aimed at Neste Oil’s trade mark. It would have been frightening if juridical decision would have declared legitimate environmental concerns as tarnishing”, says Tapio Laakso, Programme Manager for Greenpeace in Finland.

“Critisism on Neste Oil’s operations is becoming more and more urgent as the company continues to expand its palm oil diesel production. According to its second quarter results released last week the company produced a record amount of 437 000 metric tons of diesel with palm oil as main raw material. Greenpeace’s worst fears of Neste Oil’s massive expansion in the use of palm oil are becoming a reality”, Laakso continues.

Greenpeace continues its campaign to get Neste Oil to abandon palm oil and to move to more sustainable raw materials that do not require agricultural land or threaten rainforests.

WIPO's decision

Information:
Programme Manager Tapio Laakso, Tel. +358 40 181 6559

Criticism allowed – campaign against unsustainable raw material goes on

The Finnish oil refining company Neste Oil has become a leading biofuel producer. They have two of the world’s biggest biofuel refineries, one in Singapore and another one in Rotterdam. According to their latest Q2 report the facilities are running hot: Neste Oil produced a record-breaking amount of 437 000 metric tons of palm oil diesel and kerosene in April-June 2012.

The core problem is the raw material, which is almost completely palm oil and its side products (palm oil fatty acid distillate PFAD and stearin). With the production capacity of two million tons the state-owned company increases palm oil demand in such a scale that it inevitably leads to more land clearings for palm oil plantations.

Neste Oil wants to be seen as a forerunner claiming that their palm oil diesel and kerosene solve the energy problems of transportation. The duty of Greenpeace is naturally to tell the real impact of Neste Oil’s activities on climate, biodiversity and people.

And that was exactly what Greenpeace did. We did a spoof Annual Report www.nestespoil.com that looked very similar to Neste Oil Annual Report. Only the Neste Spoil Annual Report was an information package about the dangers if biofuels are produced from unsustainable raw materials with major land use impacts.

Neste Oil made a complaint to World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO claiming that Greenpeace had no right to use www.nestespoil.com domain. WIPO didn’t agree. The WIPO Panel decided that Greenpeace may use the domain to criticize Neste Oi’ls use of palm oil for biodiesel and kerosene.

This is indeed a great victory for freedom of expression. The core of the decision is that even harsh criticism is allowed in our societies. According to WIPO Greenpeace did not use the sites to unnecessarily tarnish Neste Oil. WIPO concluded that Greenpeace had been using the sites to raise legitimate environmental concerns for non-commercial purpose.

WIPO’s decision was very welcome. But the essential problem remains. To find customers Neste Oil has been selling almost half a million tons of palm oil diesel and kerosene so cheap that their business is not even profitable. Greenpeace’s worst fears are becoming true. Neste Oil needs large amounts of raw material that can’t be purchased sustainably.

The campaign goes on. Neste Oil needs to find sustainable raw materials – like waste – and soon. The climate and orangutans can’t take any more these amounts of palm oil fuel.

Neste Oil is trying to shut down Greenpeace’s Nestespoil.com website

Juha Aromaa — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:22:00 +0200

A Finnish state owned oil refining company Neste Oil is trying to shut down Greenpeace’s Nestespoil.com website by demanding domain for itself.

The site is currently locked but the content can be found at www.greenpeace.fi/nestespoilcom. Wipo has made no decision yet on the case so there is no reason to lock the site and the domain.

Nestespoil.com parodies the Annual report 2011 of Neste Oil and criticizes the company’s biodiesel business that aggravates forest destruction. Neste Oil has made a complaint to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) in which it tries to get Greenpeace’s Nestespoil.com domain for itself. See our response.

Instead of investing in sustainable raw materials Neste Oil tries to silence criticism with juridicial threatening. On top of causing forest destruction, the state-owned company is now also attacking the freedom of speech.

Help us protect the freedom of speech and rain forests: visit www.greenpeace.fi/nestespoilcom and share it with friends in Facebook & Twitter!

More and more large companies are striving with legal threats to silence the critics. Now it seems Neste Oil has chosen this path as well. We urge Neste Oil to concentrate in cleaning their act instead of threatening us. After all, if their policies and practices were right, there would be need for a spoof site like this.

Greenpeace has campaigned against Neste Oil’s palm oil diesel since 2007. The use of palm oil as raw material for biodiesel aggravates forest destruction because of the increase in demand of palm oil, and therefore demand for arable land for plantations. More and more rainforests are cut down and peat lands burned for palm oil plantations. Emissions from land use change make palm oil based biodiesel worse for climate than fossil diesel. Neste Oil’s massive investments in biodiesel production have made the company the largest biofuel producer and one of the largest buyers of palm oil in the world.

European commission is currently evaluating how the indirect land use change impacts of biofuels (ILUC) could be prevented. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also stated that palm oil diesel doesn´t reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard program. Neste Oil is very actively lobbying against these decisions. Neste Oil U.S. Inc., Indonesian Palm Oil Board and Malaysian Palm Oil Council have hired the law firm Holland & Knight to resist EPA’s decision. In Europe Burston Marsteller has worked as Neste Oils lobbyist.

A Finnish state-owned oil refining company Neste Oil is trying to shut down our spoofsite Nestespoil.com, because we criticize their biodiesel production for aggravating forest destruction.

The site is now locked but the content can be found at www.greenpeace.fi/nestespoilcom. Please visit and share with friends!

Greenpeace starts campaigning against E.ON nuclear project in Northern Finland

Juha Aromaa — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:11:00 +0200

Fennovoima, led by the German energy giant E.ON, announced today that it plans to build a new nuclear reactor in Northern Finland in Pyhäjoki. Today Greenpeace starts a campaign against E.ON's nuclear project. Nuclear power is a dangerous and insecure way to produce electricity.

With Germany leading the way Europe is investing in sustainable energy production. At the same time the German energy giant E.ON is bringing the risks of nuclear power to Northern Finland. E.ON has 34 per cent of the shares of Fennovoima. The remaining shares are scattered among 69 minor owners.

"There is no safe nuclear power. The ongoing nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima reminds of that. Only two weeks ago safety problems were revealed at E.ON nuclear power plant in Sweden in Ringhals. There has been safety problems with the Olkiluoto 3 construction during all the project. It is unbelievable that a new reactor is planned in Finland while we don't have any guarantee on the safety of the reactor under construction", says Tapio Laakso, Greenpeace Programme manager in Finland.

Also the nuclear waste problem remains unsolved. Nuclear waste is dangerous for all life at least hundred thousand years.

"Nuclear waste problem has not been solved anywhere, not even in Finland. Nuclear waste is a lousy heritage for the future generations. E.ON does not even have a short term solution for its nuclear waste. There is no plan where the waste from the planned new plant would be taken", Laakso says.

"Germany took the lead in the European energy policy by phasing out nuclear power. Switzerland is on the same path to future. The day before yesterday we heard that Denmark will move to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 and phase out coal power by 2030. E.ON is welcome to the Gulf of Bothnia to build safe energy production that gives employment. The risks of nuclear power are not welcome", Laakso says.

More information:

Programme manager Tapio Laakso, puhelin +358 40 181 6559

Communications manager Juha Aromaa, puhelin +358 9 6229 2211, +358 50 369 6202

Protest at Neste Oil meeting of shareholders in Finland

vjuvonen — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:56:00 +0200

Helsinki/Finland. Activists from Greenpeace are today protesting in Helsinki against deforestation and social problems caused by the growing demand for palm oil in biofuel production. Activists are welcoming shareholders to the annual general meeting of Finnish oil refiner Neste Oil with banners saying: Neste Oil - destroying the rainforests.

Huge investments in biodiesel production have made the company one of the largest single users of palm oil globally. Neste Oil celebrated the opening ceremony of the world´s largest biodiesel refinery in Singapore in March and the next refinery will be opened in Rotterdam later this year. In Indonesia and Malaysia, rainforest and peatlands are being cleared for commodities like palm oil. This causes significant greenhouse gases emissions and also destroys the habitat of endangered species like the orang utans.

“The company claims to produce sustainable biofuels, but in practice it is driving a huge increase in global demand for palm oil. Furthermore, only last week, Neste Oil´s sustainability claims took a serious blow when the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) suspended all current and on going certifications of IOI, one of its key suppliers, due to land conflict issues in its operations in Sarawak, Malaysia and illegal deforestation in Ketapang, Indonesia [1].”, said Matti Liimatainen, Forest Campaigner for Greenpeace Nordic in Finland.

Speaking in a Greenpeace press briefing today in Helsinki, director Lukas Straumann from Swiss NGO Bruno Manser Fonds, specialist in defending rainforests and indigenous people in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, said with regard to IOI:

”IOI is far away from being a responsible palm oil producer. The company neglects the problems that it is causing, it does not communicate openly and transparently, causes land conflicts and destroys forests with high conservation values. We find it very strange that European palm oil buyers accept producer acting like this as their business partner.”

In March 2011, in the village of Long Teran Kanan in Sarawak, Malaysia, inhabitants blocked roads to prevent IOI continuing to trespass and harvest palm oil on their lands. This was despite a court ruling over one year ago which declared that IOI ’s license to operate was null and void [2]. ”Recently announced plans by the state of Sarawak to open one million more hectares of land for new palm oil plantations are shocking. Expansion of palm oil plantations is taking place in lands that are important for the culture and livelihoods of indigenous people. And the driving force is growing demand for palm oil, for instance the massive biofuel plans in Europe”, said Straumann.

Palm oil biodiesel linked to rainforest destruction is no solution to climate change. On the contrary, it exacerbates the problem if rainforests are felled to make way for palm oil for cars. Even if Neste Oil were only to use existing agricultural land for the production of its palm oil for biofuels, the result of their action means that those agricultural areas will be displaced and established elsewhere, quite possibly still at the expense of forests and valuable ecosystems.

"For climate gains, driving on palm oil from deforestation is not an option", says forest campaigner Matti Liimatainen.

For more information, please see: www.greenpeace.fi/palmoil and http://www.bmf.ch/en

Or contact

Lukas Straumann, Bruno Manser Fonds +41 78 741 59 31

Juha Aromaa, director of communications, Greenpeace Nordic/Finland +358 50 369 6202

Matti Liimatainen, forest campaigner, Greenpeace Nordic/Finland +358 400 346 329

[1] Announcement on IOI by RSPO Grievance Panel: Breach of RSPO Code of Conduct 2.3 & Certification Systems 4.2.4 (c)

[2] Sarawak: IOI Pelita Continue To Trespass Into NCR Land Despite Court Ruling, Prompting Blockade By The Natives

Greenpeace activists demonstrate at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant

vjuvonen — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:07:00 +0200

Two Greenpeace activists demonstrate early Monday morning at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. By going to the nuclear power plant the activists wanted to show that nuclear power is an unnecessary risk Finland doesn’t need.

First the activists went to the cooling water inlet and then continued to demonstrate on the roof of a building at nuclear power plant area. They documented the demonstration with their own photographs.

“It’s dangerous to think that the nuclear risks wouldn’t concern us in Finland. We have to create a path out of nuclear power. Now it’s the time for Finnish voters to elect a Parliament that takes Finland to safe energy production. There are already more than 42 000 voters who have made a pledge to vote for an anti-nuclear candidate”, says Greenpeace energy campaigner Jehki Härkönen.

Video and pictures of the activists demonstration tour to Olkiluoto nuclear power plant at www.greenpeace.fi/olkiluoto.

More information:

Energy campaigner Jehki Härkönen, phone +358 40 197 262
Communications manager Juha Aromaa, phone +358 50 369 620

A protest dressed as endangered species outside the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Jakarta

vjuvonen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:12:00 +0200

Jakarta, Thursday, 31 April 2011: Greenpeace activists dressed as endangered species of Indonesian forests, together with a coalition of Indonesian NGOs, today went to the Ministry of Economic Affairs to call for the immediate implementation of moratorium on forest destruction that can successfully protect vital rainforest, as well as Indonesia’s biodiversity, people and economy which depend on it. on forest destruction.

“Sustainability and economic development go hand in hand. Ensuring sustainable development will avert further ecological degradation. And a good moratorium is key toward real and lasting development that will improve the welfare of all Indonesians. The Ministry of Economic Affairs must realise that it has a stake in the success of a good moratorium, and in its function to coordinate economic policy, it should work to push the government toward a greener and fairer economy,” said Yuyun Indradi, Greenpeace Southeast Asia Forests Political Campaigner.

The moratorium on forest destruction was supposed to have been implemented on 1 January 2011. But after three months, the moratorium still remains to be finalized. Many believe that the three-month delay is related to intervention from industry interests, and that no delay would happen if all government departments are together in a strong commitment to save and protect Indonesia’s forests.

Greenpeace together with a broad coalition of NGOs in Indonesia is calling on the President to issue a moratorium that is not time-bound, which protects all natural forests and peatlands, including secondary forests. It should apply to areas within existing concessions and those areas granted in principle to industry on 31 December 2010. Last month, Greenpeace revealed maps that show how the proposed draft ‘moratorium’ which was being considered by the government was inadequate and would fail to protect the crucial forest areas.

During today’s activity, the “endangered animals” handed to the ministry recommendations which define a ‘good moratorium.’ “We support President SBY’s commitment to implement a moratorium on deforestation. The moratorium is an important first step to a long term scheme to improve Indonesia’s forests governance, particularly in forest-related sectors such as forestry, plantations and mining. But the forests cannot wait. Any delay in the implementation of a good moratorium means forests continue to be bulldozed day after day.

Data from the Ministry of Forestry states the rate of forest destruction in Indonesia is 1,1 million hectares per year. This means that the three month delay in the moratorium implementation has already resulted in deforestation of approximately 275,000 hectares, equivalent to four times the land area of Jakarta," said Mansuetus Darto, National Coordinator Palm Oil Farmers Association.

Last year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged that Indonesia will undertake a bold commitment to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, and announced a target to reduce emissions by 26% by 2020 compared to business as usual and by up to 41% with international support. Greenpeace and Indonesian civil society agree that this target can be achieved with a good moratorium if implementation is backed by strong law enforcement, and accommodates rights of local communities.

11 candlelight demonstrations in Finland against nuclear power

vjuvonen — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:44:00 +0100

Approximately 2 200 people in Helsinki, Finland gathered to pay respect for the victims in Japan, and to oppose nuclear power. Candlelight demonstrations were organized in 11 cities around the country.

The demonstration in Helsinki was organized by five major environmental non-governmental organisations. In 48 hours we managed to get 2 200 people to a vigil for the victims of Japan and a demonstration against nuclear power.

The demonstration was a silent gathering, where people could show their respect to the victims, and also a powerful way to show our anger against the irresponsible and arrogant Finnish pro-nuclear politicians. Finnish parliament members have been eager to say that despite the incident in Japan, the nuclear reactors in Finland are the safest in the world.

Finland might not be threathened by tsunamis, but ice and oil leaked from tanker accident might still affect the cooling systems of nuclear power plants. Mistakes may also happen in Finland. Polish employees who are building Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor have been speaking openly about covering up mistakes with cement, illiterate superiors and unreliable subcontractors.

"Olkiluoto 3 has a long list of safety mishaps. Its construction permit must be immediately halted", says Greenpeace's Press Officer Juha Aromaa. "We cannot control the forces of nature, but energy solutions are national choices. We don't have to choose nuclear", said the Director of the Environmental Department Jouni Nissinen from Finnish Association for Nature Conservation in his speech.

More information:
Program Director Tapio Laakso, Greenpeace, puhelin 040 181 6559
Press Officer Juha Aromaa, Greenpeace, puhelin 050 369 6202

Protest against Neste Oil’s palm oil diesel

Juha Aromaa — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:05:00 +0100

At the same time as Neste Oil has the official inauguration ceremony of a new massive palm oil diesel refinery in Singapore, Greenpeace activists are demonstrating in Helsinki at Neste Oil petrol station.

”With Neste Oil’s palm oil adventure Finland has become seriously involved in the destruction of tropical rainforests. Palm oil use in biofuel industry is driving climate change, impacts food security, violates human rights and causes serious rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia”, says Greenpeace forest campaigner Matti Liimatainen.

Neste Oil is becoming one of the biggest users of palm oil with the massive refinery in Singapore and another one in Rotterdam which will start operation later this year. The production capacity of all Neste Oil’s biodiesel refineries will be close to two million tons and according to the company the main raw material for NExBTL diesel will be palm oil. Until now the largest single user in the world has been Unilever with 1,5 million tons. Neste Oil is already this year using 700 000 tonnes of palm oil.

Greenpeace is urging the Indonesian government to implement a moratorium (halt) on forest conversion and to protect all peatland. It is also calling on the EU to go beyond the sustainability criteria it has established for biofuels and adopt new legislation that ensures ILUC associated emissions are included in the carbon lifecycle assessment of biofuels.

According to UNEP most of the new palm oil plantations are established in cleared rain forest. According to recent research assessing the land use impacts of EU biofuels policy, the use of palm oil as fuel will inevitably lead to establishment of new plantations in rainforests and peatlands. [1] GHG emissions increase due to land clearing, which means biofuels worsen climate change. Several researches show that the environmental impacts and GHG emissions of vegetable oil based biofuels are worse than those of the fossil fuels they were originally designed to replace.[2] According to a report released in the beginning of February the peatland forests of Malaysia are being destroyed faster than ever due to the increasing demand for palm oil[3].

”Neste Oil must give up burning edible oils in the tanks and find out more sustainable options. Also EU has to take responsibility. If the use of biofuels is increasing in line with the targets in the RED directive, 69 000 square kilometres new cultivation land would be needed globally[4]”, Liimatainen says.

An orangutan dummy is hanged with a fuel pipe to illustrate the rainforest destruction caused by Neste Oil, and the car drivers are provided with leaflets about Neste Oil’s palm oil diesel. The message of the banners on the bridges is ”palm oil diesel – rainforest destruction”.

For more information, please see http://www.greenpeace.fi/palmoil or contact
Palm oil campaigner Maija Suomela, + 358 40 1809 303
Forest campaigner Matti Liimatainen, +358 400 346 329
Communications manager Juha Aromaa, +358 50 369 6202