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Activists attacked in Philippine global warming protest

Greenpeace Southeast Asia energy campaigners Red Constantino, and Tara Buakamsri hold up a banner calling for a stop to the construction of a coal fired power plant in Rayong province on Thailand's eastern seaboard. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace halts coal plant

Our activists today disrupted the construction of an internationally-funded coal power plant and demanded that the project be stopped immediately. Activists from Thailand, Philippines and Germany occupied the main crane of the coal power plant to demand renewable energy for Southeast Asia.

Greenpeace today installed wind turbines in a Philippine village which had no electricity Enlarge Image

Dirty energy dies in the Philippines

Despite attempts by developed nations, dirty energy is being killed off in the Philippines and the country is ready to embrace a future full of clean renewable energy.

Security from the Phillipine's biggest coal fired power station, Sual, fire a warning shot to activists from the Greenpeace ship, MV Arctic Sunrise. Enlarge Image

Shot fired against peaceful protesters

While peaceful protesters highlighted a vision of clean, green energy for the Philippines a security guard fired a warning shot in the air over the heads of activists. The protest was against the biggest coal-fired power station in the Philippines.

"Higantes" welcome the Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise on the first stop of the South East Asia Choose Positive Energy tour. Enlarge Image

Pushing dirty energy on developing nations

With the Earth Summit on Sustainable Development only a month away, some countries still don't understand what the word "sustainable" means. They are trying to push polluting coal and nuclear technology on developing nations as a solution to their electricity needs and global climate change.

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