Greenpeace stops vessel of Finland's Stora Enso in Lubeck
5. Some forty demonstators belonging to the environmental group Greenpeace have prevented the paper cargo carrying ship of the Finland-based forestry giant Stora Enso from entering the port of Lubeck in Germany. The ship of the name Antares could not unload its cargo because demonstartors opposing Stora Enso methods of harvesting raw material hung onto the hoist bridge.
Nov 11, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. Some forty demonstators belonging to the environmental group Greenpeace have prevented the paper cargo carrying ship of the Finland-based forestry giant Stora Enso from entering the port of Lubeck in Germany. The ship of the name Antares could not unload its cargo because demonstartors opposing Stora Enso methods of harvesting raw material hung onto the hoist bridge.
The demonstration follows the Monday protest, when Greenpeace activists blockaded Antares passage from the Veitsiluoto facility in Finland. Greenpeace activists are blaming Stora Enso for destroying old-growth forests. Stora Enso is the biggest client of Metsдhallitus, the Finnish State forestry enterprise.
Metsдhallitus has, claims Greenpeace, logged the habitats of endangered species and launched several loggings in the grazing areas of reindeer without the negotiations with reindeers herders required by law.