Feature story - November 21, 2002
A team of activists occupied the crane that fills an ocean-dumping barge with ferronickel wastes. Climbers went all the way to the top of the crane arm and paralysed the sea dumping operation.
Greenpeace climber above site of Larco dumping.
The company doing the dumping, Larco, S.A., provides 6-7% of the
European market in nickel (and material for making euros in Greece)
and is dumping a million tons of slag right into the sea. They get
away with it through a legal loophole by dumping just inside Greek
territorial waters.
Find out more about the action from the ship's diary.