{"id":5991,"date":"2018-11-17T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:22","slug":"b-c-woman-among-six-greenpeace-activists-arrested-in-europe-aboard-a-ship-loaded-with-palm-oil-from-oreo-makers-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/5991\/b-c-woman-among-six-greenpeace-activists-arrested-in-europe-aboard-a-ship-loaded-with-palm-oil-from-oreo-makers-supplier\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. woman among six Greenpeace activists arrested in Europe aboard a ship loaded with palm oil from Oreo maker\u2019s supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Crew members of the Stolt Tenacity tanker ship confront six Greenpeace volunteers who boarded the giant tanker ship carrying dirty palm oil from Indonesia to Europe in a peaceful protest against rainforest destruction.<\/em><\/p>\n

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17 November 2018 (AMSTERDAM)\u00a0\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Six Greenpeace activists, including one Canadian, have been arrested by the captain of a giant tanker while peacefully boarding a\u00a0185-metre\u00a0long cargo ship loaded with palm oil products from Wilmar International,\u00a0the largest and dirtiest palm oil trader in the world<\/a>\u00a0and a supplier to the maker of Oreo cookies. [1]<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Stolt Tenacity<\/em>, carrying dirty palm oil from Indonesia to Europe, was safely scaled by Greenpeace International volunteers from Canada, Indonesia, Germany, the UK, France, and the US in a peaceful protest against rainforest destruction in Indonesia. Among them is Victoria Henry, a Canadian woman from Burnaby, B.C. (and now U.K. resident).<\/p>\n

The boarding happened near Spain in the Gulf of Cadiz. Before being detained they unfurled banners reading \u201cSave our Rainforest\u201d\u00a0and \u201cDrop Dirty Palm Oil\u201d. The captain has been informed via VHF radio of the peaceful and non-violent nature of the protest. However, he has detained the climbers in one of the cargo ship\u2019s cabins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have limited radio contact with our volunteers and have called on the ship\u2019s captain to free them so they can continue to peacefully protest against companies like Wilmar that are shipping dirty palm oil from forests destroyers into our supermarkets and homes\u201d,\u00a0said Hannah Martin, campaigner on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilmar is a major supplier to global snack food giant Mondelez, one of the world\u2019s largest buyers of palm oil, which it uses in many of its best-known products, including Oreo cookies such as those sold in Canada (which has been one of Oreo\u2019s biggest market). [2] An investigation released earlier this week by Greenpeace International found that\u00a0Mondelez\u2019s palm oil suppliers have destroyed 70,000 hectares of rainforest across Southeast Asia in two years<\/a>\u00a0and showed evidence of child\u00a0labour, exploitation of workers, illegal clearance, forest fires, and land grabbing. [3]<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from Indonesia. I\u2019ve witnessed the devastating impact of deforestation for palm oil and our cities choking with haze as a result of the forest fires. I\u2019m here to send a message to Mondelez that Wilmar\u2019s dirty palm oil is destroying our home and we don\u2019t want it in our supermarkets\u201d,\u00a0said Waya Maweru, a climber from Sulawesi, Indonesia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPalm oil can be produced without trashing our forests. Over one million people around the world are demanding action. Now it\u2019s time for Mondelez, the makers of Oreo cookies, and other brands to listen to their call and cut Wilmar off until it can prove its palm oil is clean\u201d,\u00a0said Kiki Taufik, Greenpeace spokesperson on board Greenpeace ship Esperanza.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greenpeace is calling on Mondelez to drop Wilmar until it proves its palm oil comes from producers that are not destroying rainforests or exploiting people.<\/p>\n

Tropical deforestation produces more greenhouse gas emissions each year than the entire European Union<\/a>, outranking every country except the USA and China. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u00a0called for an immediate end to deforestation<\/a>\u00a0to limit global temperature rises to 1.5\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

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[1] The cargo ship Stolt Tenacity is carrying palm oil products from one or both of the Wilmar refineries in Dumai, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Wilmar has two refineries near Dumai – one in\u00a0Pelingtung\u00a0and one in\u00a0Dumai\u00a0itself. Both are called PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia.<\/p>\n

According to Wilmar, these refineries are supplied with palm oil from rainforest destroyers, including Bumitama, Djarum, the Fangiono family and Gama. In September 2018,\u00a0Greenpeace International published an investigation into 25 of the most destructive palm oil producer groups in Southeast Asia.<\/a>\u00a0Wilmar confirmed that it was\u00a0sourcing\u00a0from 18 of them. It subsequently stopped sourcing from some of these groups.<\/p>\n

According to Wilmar\u2019s most recent supply chain data, which cover the period July 2017 \u2013 July 2018, at least six of these producer groups supplied its Dumai refineries, including Anglo-Eastern, Bumitama, Djarum, the Fangiono family, Gama and Trurich (a Felda-LTH joint venture).<\/p>\n

PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia \u2013 Pelintung:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wilmar-international.com\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181026_WINA-PLT_L2.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia \u2013 Dumai:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wilmar-international.com\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181026_WINA-DMI_L2.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other Wilmar facilities supply one or both of the two refineries, including Wilmar’s Multi Nabati Sulawesi refinery,\u00a0which Greenpeace occupied in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0In 2017, Mondelez used 306,554 tonnes of palm oil and derivatives, and in 2016, Mondelez used 312,266 tonnes of palm oil. \u00a0Based on\u00a0analysis\u00a0of ingredients lists. Manufacturing variations mean that palm, canola, or soybean oil may be being used in different regions or factories.\u00a0\u201cModified palm oil\u201d is listed as an ingredient in Oreo products sold in Canada; it is unclear whether the palm oil used for Oreo production in Canada is sourced from suppliers responsible for deforestation. See this\u00a02017 Oreo Factsheet<\/a>\u00a0for biggest markets.<\/p>\n

[3] Due to the nature of the palm oil trade (and action by the company), some of the 22 dirty producers may not currently be supplying Mondelez with palm oil, although they were all suppliers between 2015 and\u00a02017,\u00a0when the forest destruction took place.<\/p>\n

Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sol Gosetti, International\u00a0Communications Coordinator, Indonesia Forest campaign, Greenpeace Southeast Asia\u00a0sol.gosetti@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +44 (0) 7380845754<\/p>\n

Greenpeace International Press Desk, +31 (0)20 718 2470 (available 24 hours),\u00a0pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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