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Rainbow Warrior impounded by Dutch police

Action on the Maasvlakte: activists plant 18 flags, one for each nationality at the camp Enlarge Image

E.ON’s coal construction brought to a full stop

Supported by the Rainbow Warrior, a hundred of our volunteer activists occupied the construction site of the new E.ON coal fired power plant in Rotterdam. They halted construction for 10 hours before they were all arrested by police. Special police cut their chains and neck locks and removed everyone from the site by the end of the day.

Thirty Greenpeace activists have stopped the operation of a giant excavator in one of the largest lignite mines in the Czech Republic. Greenpeace is demanding the Czech Republic closes the ČSA mine by 2012, commits to progressively decreasing its own carbon emissions and plays a constructive role in climate policy making. Enlarge Image

Lignite mine expansion stopped in Czech Republic

Thirty of our activists have shut down a giant excavator in one of the largest lignite mines in the Czech Republic. We're calling on the Czech Republic to close this mine by 2012, commit to progressively decreasing their carbon emissions and to play a constructive role in the creation of effective climate policy.

Greenpeace opens a Climate Rescue Station on the edge of an open coal mine in Poland. Coal the single greatest threat facing our climate. Poland uses coal to produce 93% of its electricity. The Station has been set up in the run up to crucial UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland this December. Despite hosting the talks, Poland is attempting to obstruct the negotiations and to undermine the EU’s efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Enlarge Image

Climate Rescue Station launched against coal in Poland

We have set up a Climate Rescue Station on the edge of a vast open pit coal mine in Konin, Poland. The Rescue Station is a four storey tall planet earth and will be used as a platform to tell the world that we can save the climate, but only if we quit coal, the most polluting of all fossil fuels.

The Station will remain in Poland for five weeks in the run up to, and during, the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference taking place in Poznan between 1st - 14th of December.

Activist display a banner at the site proposed for E.ON's coal power plant in Belgium. Over 80 activists occupied the site during an action where more than 4000 windmills were set up while the message "Quit Coal Flanders" was painted on the Tarmac. Enlarge Image

How many windmills does it take to stop a coal power plant?

More than 80 activists occupied the site of E.ON's proposed coal fired power-plant in Antwerp Harbour – setting up over four thousand tiny windmills and painting the message "Flanders Quit Coal" on the tarmac.

Activists from the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior enter the pier outside Kingsnorth Power station in Medway, Kent. A nine-boat protest armada led by the Rainbow Warrior headed for Britain's most controversial power station, carrying dozens of campaigners who intend to enter the site at Kingsnorth in Kent. Enlarge Image

Armada of activists descends on Kingsnorth

A nine-boat protest armada led by the Rainbow Warrior has arrived at Britain's most controversial power station with dozens of activists from around the world filling the jetty at the plant in Kent.

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