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Quit Coal campaign completes Thailand tour

Greenpeace hari ini menantang Kementerian Energi untuk menghentikan pembangunan PLTU terbaru di Thailand dan mengantinya dengan sumber energi terbarukan yang dapat membantu mencegah perubahaan iklim dan menjaga keamanan energi nasional.Pada aksi damai hari ini, aktivis Greenpeace membawa balon berwarna hitam putih yang bertuliskan “CO2” ke kantor Kementrian Energi sebagai simbol karbondioksida dari emisi yang dikeluarkan PLTU yang baru di Thailand. Enlarge Image

Quit Coal campaign completes Thailand tour

After successful campaigns in New Zealand and the Philippines, the Rainbow Warrior spent 21 days in Thailand as part of the "Quit Coal, Lead the Energy [R]evolution Tour" promoting solutions to climate change. The tour included human banners, port blockades and a visit to the Ministry of Energy.

Greenpeace activists protest at the Ministry of Energy in Bangkok using black and white balloons printed with the word "CO2" to symbolize carbon emmissions from new coal power plants in Thailand, July 21, 2008. Greenpeace challenged the Min of Energy to construction of new coal power plants in Thailand and shift resources to the development of clean renewable energy systems to help combat climate change and achieve national energy security. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace to Ministry of Energy: Lead Thailand’s Energy Revolution

Greenpeace today challenged the Ministry of Energy (MOE) to stop construction of new coal power plants in Thailand and shift its resources instead to the development of clean renewable energy systems to help combat climate change and achieve national energy security.

Water cannons are fired as Greenpeace activists on inflatables unfurl banners at Mapthaput port, Rayong 250 Kms east of Bangkok. Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior today staged a peaceful protest against the expansion of a Belgian-owned coal power plant in Mapthaphut, Rayong province in Thailand, anchoring a few meters off the coal wharf and unfurling banners saying “Quit Coal” and ”Coal = Climate Change”. The ship was greeted by tug boats and coal plant personnel who fired water cannons as it entered the coal port. Greenpeace has slammed the hypocrisy of European countries on the issue of climate change. The environment group demanded that construction of the new 660 MW GHECO-one coal power plant owned by GLOW Energy be stopped because it will increase Thailand's carbon emissions, which cause climate change. Enlarge Image

Stand-off in Maptaphut

Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior today staged a peaceful protest against the expansion of a Belgian-owned coal power plant in Mapthaphut, Rayong province in Thailand, anchoring a few meters off the coal wharf and unfurling banners saying “Quit Coal” and ”Coal = Climate Change”. The ship was greeted by tug boats and coal plant personnel who fired water cannons as it entered the coal port.

Greenpeace activists and climate-impacted and anti-coal community members of Prachuab Kiri khan, in South Thailand, form a human banner proclaiming 'Quit Coal', during Rainbow Warrior's solidarity stop, off Thapsakae village as part of its "Quit Coal, Lead the Energy [R]evolution [1]' Tour of Thailand. [1] http://www.greenpeace.or.th/quitcoal Enlarge Image

Greenpeace, Prachuab communities form human installation against coal

Hundreds of residents from Prachuab Khirikhan joined Greenpeace activists and the crew of Rainbow Warrior to form a human installation proclaiming ‘Quit Coal’ at Thapsakae beach today. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is proposing to build a 4000 MW coal-fired power plant in Thapsakae but the communities are opposing it due to concerns on pollution and climate change.

Greenpeace flagship, SV Rainbow Warrior, sailed to Songkhla today to challenge the government and power sector of Thailand to commit to a massive uptake of renewable energy to combat climate change and address energy security issues in the country. Enlarge Image

Rainbow Warrior kickstarts 'Energy [R]evolution Tour' of Thailand

Greenpeace flagship, SV Rainbow Warrior, sailed into Songkhla today to challenge the government and power sector of Thailand to commit to a massive uptake of renewable energy to combat climate change and address energy security issues in the country.

Volunteers light candles in front of Jaro Cathedral - sending a message supporting Iloilo people's demand to the Philippine government for a cleaner, safer, future powered by renewable energy. Enlarge Image

Philippine's leg of Quit Coal tour wraps up

“We believe there is no place for coal in a world beset by climate change and certainly there is no place for coal in Albay”

That was the statement of Governor Joey Sarte Salceda, setting the tone for our one month Quit Coal tour of the Philippines. Since the Rainbow Warrior arrived in the country we’ve taken our Quit Coal message to the places it needed to be heard, and generated real progress on the ground and in the corridors of power.

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