The Austrian police terminated this afternoon a protest action by 20 supporters of the environmentalist organization Greenpeace who occupied the Vienna branch office of the German energy concern E.ON at 9:00 a.m. CET today.
Published:
28 February 2001 y., Wednesday
The identity of 16 activists was checked, a police spokesman told CTK tonight, adding that nine people were detained. The E.ON branch's occupation was terminated at 3:45 p.m. CET with the police saying that the protesters violated the principles of the right to assembly and breached the peace.
Besides displaying a poster reading "E.ON = electricity from Temelin" they also switched on a strong siren signalling atomic alarm. It is probable that just as during similar actions in the past, the environmentalists will be released after identification and prosecuted outside prison.
They mostly face fines. The protesters demanded that the German concern, which also buys electricity in the Czech Republic, withdraw from all contracts with the country and prevent electricity imports from Temelin to Austria. According to Greenpeace E.ON is the major importer of Czech electricity. The imports totalled 15,000 gigawatthours last year, including more than 12,400 GWh from CEZ which operates Temelin. With import to Germany the Czech energy gets to the EU grid and can therefore also be used in Austria, Greenpeace says.
Šaltinis:
CTK - Czech News Agency
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
The fate of blue fin tuna hangs in the balance this week as a complete ban on the trade is debated by MEPs.
more »
A $100 million pledge from the Government of Japan has helped to secure the funding base and launch the operational phase of two new climate programs supporting forest management and renewable energy investments in developing countries.
more »
Europeans quite happy with their personal situation, but less satisfied with economic and social climate in their country.
more »
Spain wishes to “make as much progress as possible” to ensure the EU becomes party to the Council of Europe's Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms soon, according to the Spanish Minister for Justice, Francisco Caamaño, at today's opening of a seminar on the challenges and possibilities arising from the Treaty of Lisbon coming into force.
more »
According to Belarusian tradition, a stork brings good fortune to the village it settles in while in western culture the stork is commonly associated with childbirth.
more »
The World Bank Board of Directors today approved an additional financing credit to the Republic of Moldova in the amount of US $20 million for the Social Investment Fund II Project.
more »
The Spanish Health and Social Policy Minister, Trinidad Jiménez, and the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla, addressed the press in Madrid on the launch of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion 2010.
more »
The European Commission and the Spanish Presidency of the EU will tomorrow launch the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
more »
Smoking at a restaurant like this one in Spain could soon be a thing of the past. Spanish lawmakers want to stub out the habit in public places like bars and restaurants. But it's an unpopular proposal in a country where around 30 percent of the population smoke.
more »
As President of the European Economic and Social Committee, I would like, on behalf of all the Committee's members, to express my sympathy to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
more »