Greenpeace ordered to pay damages to nuclear plant

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

How about this interesting tidbit! About time Greenpeace has been held 
accountable for their ludicrous behavior!

   CHERBOURG, France, Oct 14 (AFP) - Greenpeace was ordered to pay 
10,000 francs (1,500 dollars) in damages to a nuclear reprocessing
plant Tuesday after a court rejected its bid to stop the plant pumping
waste into the sea. 
   The court ruled that the environmental group had no justified 
interest in seeking to prevent the expulsion of the waste from the
nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague in northwestern France. 
   Greenpeace has for months been campaigning about an undersea  pipe
which pumps liquid waste from the plant into the English Channel,
claiming it contains material above legal radioactive levels. 
   On October 3 they launched a suit seeking the suspension of  
waste production through the pipe pending an expert analysis of its
contents. 
   COGEMA, the company which runs the plant, denies the charge, and 
claimed 300,000 francs in damages from Greenpeace. 
   Greenpeace immediately announced plans to launch further legal 
action in a bid to plug the waste pipe. 
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