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Greenpeace activists evade security at Swedish nuclear power plants

Press release | 10 October, 2012 at 15:04

Stockholm, October 10, 2012 – Exposing the vulnerability of Swedish nuclear power plants, at least seven Greenpeace activists stayed more than 24 hours undetected at two sites following a test of their security procedures.

How your tissue could be wiping away amazing forests

Blog entry by Lina Burnelius | 29 September, 2017 1 comment

You smell it first – the smell of recently splintered trees is so strong that it hits me long before I reach the logging site. The tree stumps are still sticky with resin. A few hours ago this was a lush forest with trees that had...

Nuclear power is safe and pigs can fly

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | 21 May, 2013 4 comments

That’s the lesson Greenpeace Sweden sent to the nuclear industry once again today as we flew our paramotor glider over the unprotected Ringhals nuclear power plant in southwest Sweden, near Gothenburg. With simple gear and without...

17 nuclear headaches

Blog entry by Raquel Montón | 28 November, 2014 2 comments

"It was my duty to do this and I did it." These are the words of one of our Greenpeace activists when he was prosecuted last September for the peaceful protest at the nuclear power plant of Fessenheim in France. These thoughts are...

One world - two realities

Blog entry by Dima Litvinov | 29 November, 2011

Last week I heard two completely different views of the same thing. One came from a top Swedish government official at a seminar  on board the Greenpeace flag ship Rainbow Warrior dedicated to drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.  ...

Unfriend Coal Around the World, Creatively

Blog entry by Jodie Van Horn | 29 April, 2011 4 comments

The Facebook: Unfriend Coal campaign, much like the company at the center of it, has quickly spread across the globe. Perhaps this is because so many young people, early adopters of the platform and avid social networkers, also care...

Greenpeace Nordic intercepts Shell ship (again)

Blog entry by JulietteH | 3 May, 2012 6 comments

Greenpeace Nordic activists today intercepted at open sea and boarded a Shell-contracted icebreaker, the Nordica, to continue its protest against the oil major’s destructive plans to start drilling in the pristine Arctic region . Just...

Greenpeace Sweden exposes lax security at nuclear plants

Blog entry by Brian Blomme | 9 October, 2012 7 comments

They poured onto the sites of two nuclear reactor plants in Sweden this morning with minimal problems: more than 70 Greenpeace activists, from five countries, conducted peaceful stress tests of the sites. The goal: to show how weak...

Sweden: progressive or regressive?

Blog entry by jmckeati | 22 June, 2010

Ah, Sweden, progressive Sweden, a land rightly proud of its generous social welfare system with its excellent schools, health care and pensions. It is a country forward-looking in every sense. Except when it comes to nuclear power.

Renewable energy protesters say no to nuclear in Sweden

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | 14 June, 2010

In the most "Woody Allen esque" protest I've seen in a while, 50 activists dressed as renewable energy sources (sun, wind, water) used a fire truck to get into one of the dodgiest nuclear plants in Sweden.   They want their...

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