Re: Greenpeace occupies German nuclear dump

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

> Greenpeace occupies German nuclear dump



Would it were so!   Greenpeace isolated for 240,000 years.



(Removing a much greater source of toxicity than nuclear waste from the

planet's environment.)



Regards, Jim

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> GORLEBEN, Germany, March 16 (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists

> occupied a watch tower at a German nuclear waste dump on

> Friday but ended their protest after police evicted most of them.

> 

> The environmental groups said 40 protesters entered the Gorleben

> storage facility southeast of Hamburg to protest against imminent

> nuclear waste shipments from France.

> 

> Police ejected most of them, but 16 kept up the protest until some

> of them were also forced out. The protest was then called off, a

> Greenpeace spokesman said.

> 

> Police in the nearby town of Lueneburg said they held several

> Greenpeace members for questioning but released them.

> 

> After a suspension of about three years, waste originally from

> German nuclear plants is due in late March or early April to be sent

> by rail back from France's La Hague reprocessing plant for storage

> at Gorleben. 

> 

> Police expect thousands of demonstrators to try to block the

> transports. During the last transports, police and activists fought

> running battles. 

> 

> The resumption of shipments has been a major headache for the

> anti-nuclear Greens party, junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard

> Schroeder's coalition.

> 

> With the transports expressly permitted under the long-term

> withdrawal from nuclear power negotiated last year by Greens

> Environment Minister Juergen Trittin, the environmentalist party has

> urged members to demonstrate peacefully.

> 

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