Releases - Greenpeace

Saami reindeer herders and Finnish governmental forest enterprise Metsahallitus have agreed on a deal concerning the long-lasting dispute on reindeer grazing forests in northenmost Finland. Almost 80 % of the forests defined as important by reindeer herders and Greenpeace in 2002 have now been set outside of forestry either permanently or for the next 20 years. This is the result of recent negotiations and earlier...

In Finland's largest environmental demonstration for almost a decade, over 3000 people marched today for safe clean energy, against the expansion of nuclear power and nuclear waste in Finland. A key demand from the demonstration was for Finnish MPs to vote against the ministers’ irresponsible plan of authorizing the construction of two new nuclear reactors.
"We gathered today to urge the MPs to reject the...

Greenpeace climbers have hung a 10-meter banner on the façade of the Prime Minister's Office, where Finnish ministers have gathered to vote on proposals for new nuclear reactors. The banner reads "Jyrki rules, Mauri obeys, Finland bears the risk", criticizing the ruling center party minister Mauri Pekkarinen for making a dirty deal with concervatives, a minority party in the cabinet, led by finance minister Jyrki...

Greenpeace estimates that very optimistically Olkiluoto 3 might start operating in 2014, five years late and 13 years after the parliamentary decision.
Helsingin Sanomat ran today a story that the start of the commercial operation of the Olkiluoto 3 plant will be delayed even further than 2012. Originally the plant was supposed to be up and running by 2009. The construction company Areva still claims to make it...

Seven Greenpeace activists have occupied the chimney of Meri-Pori and Tahkoluoto coal power plants in Finland, Pori. They have hanged a banner that demands stopping CO2 emissions and nuclear power.
They are taking action to expose the climate bluff of the nuclear industry, carrying banners reading “Stop coal and nuclear”. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant was supposed to help close down dirty coal and peat...

One of the long standing conflicts between Saami reindeer herders and Finland's State forest service Metsähallitus has been resolved in Nellim, in northernmost Finland. The law suit filed in 2005 by three Saami reindeer herders was settled with an agreement between the reindeer herders and Metsähallitus.
The agreement published today saves the majority of mature forests in the area for the next 20 years. This...