As the G8 opens, Greenpeace occupy 4 Italian coal-fired power stations

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Source: Greenpeace

As the leaders of the world's most powerful nations arrived at the G8 Summit today, over 100 Greenpeace activists from around the world have occupied four coal-fired power stations across Italy, demanding the G8 Heads of State take leadership on climate change.

In the early hours of this morning, the activists occupied coal conveyors and climbed smokestacks and cranes on the four power stations in Brindisi, Marghera (just outside of Venice), at Vado Ligure, (near Genoa) and at an old oil plant at Porto Tolle, (set to be re-opened as an experimental so-called "clean coal" power plant.) Coal is the worst climate pollutant of all fossil fuels.

The Brindisi plant is Italy's biggest coal-fired power station and the country's largest single source of C02 emissions. Greenpeace plans to stop it from polluting by blocking the coal conveyor belts and preventing coal from going into the plant.

"Politicians talk but leaders act" said UK activist Ben Stewart from the top of the 160m high chimney at the Marghera plant. "There is no more time to waste. The G8 leaders must stop putting the interests of big coal and other climate polluting industries ahead of the planet and take strong, decisive leadership on climate change. That means deep cuts in emissions by 2020, investing in adaption and mitigation in the developing world and halting tropical deforestation."

Read more: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/g8-comes-taly-greenpeace-occupy-4-italian-coal-fired-power-stations-20090708

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Ben Stewart is Twittering and adding photos to the link above from the top of one of the chimney stacks!



AP are reporting it now, too...

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