Climate Activists block Copenhagen powerplant

29.01.2008
Approx­i­mate­ly 50 activists from the Dan­ish group Cli­maX blocked the main entrance to a pow­er­plant in Copen­hagen owned by the DONG Ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion.

Dong blockade 1
Dong blockade 229.01.2008
Approx­i­mate­ly 50 activists from the Dan­ish group Cli­maX blocked the main entrance to a pow­er­plant in Copen­hagen owned by the DONG Ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion.

The pow­er com­pa­ny plans to start build­ing a coal­fired pow­er­plant in north­ern Ger­many. This pow­er­plant when com­plet­ed will dou­ble the CO2 emis­sions of the state. The build­ing of the pow­er­plant have been heav­i­ly critizised by the local com­mu­ni­ty and cli­mate organ­i­sa­tions. The Dan­ish state owns the major­i­ty of the stocks in DONG Ener­gy.

“When the lead­ers of DONG and the Dan­ish state fails to respect the cli­mate, we react. Den­mark will nev­er be a lead­ing coun­try in coun­ter­ing cli­mate changes when they own com­pa­nies who make pow­er on the worst CO2-pol­lut­ing way pos­si­ble” says Daniel Rask from Cli­maX.

The action was colour­ful and cre­ative. Along with noise and col­ors the activists brought a large wood­en wind­mill with them, which they locked them­selves onto.

The action end­ed peace­ful­ly when the block­ade was lift­ed after about two hours.

Cli­max will con­tin­ue the actions up until the big cli­mate sum­mit in Den­mark in 2009. Cli­maX can be reached on the email adress klimax(circle‑A)forum.dk .