Greenpeace blocks tanker from delivering oil to Swedish refinery

 

Greenpeace activists hold a banner as they try to block the passage for an oil tanker approaching a Swedish refinery in Lysekil, Sweden September 10, 2020. Greenpeace - Andrew McConnell/Handout via REUTERS

 

GOTHENBURG (Reuters) - Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior blocked a tanker on Thursday from delivering crude oil from Norway to Sweden's Lysekil refinery in a protest against plans to expand it, the advocacy group said.

 

The 850-tonne sailboat decorated in rainbow colours dropped anchor in a fjord near the installation owned by Sweden's largest refiner Preem [CORRLR.UL] to block passage for the Grena Knutsen carrying crude from Norway's Gullfaks oilfield.

 

"We will not let any crude oil to the refinery until Preem stops its plans to expand," said Greenpeace member Gustav Martner during a live feed from Rainbow Warrior as it lowered anchor.

 

A spokesman for Preem confirmed to Reuters that Greenpeace was blocking the tanker but said police were negotiating with the crew.

 

Swedish police had no immediate comment.

 

Sweden's minority coalition of Social Democrats and Greens must decide whether to allow the 15 billion crown ($1.72 billion) expansion of the refinery after a court ruled in June that there were no legal grounds to block it.

 

Greenpeace says the refinery's expansion would result in increasing carbon dioxide emissions by up to 1 million tonnes per year, making it the largest source of CO2 emissions in the country.

 

Preem said the emissions would be reduced in the future by using carbon capture and storage (CCS) and producing more biofuels.

 

Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg said last week that Sweden would fail to live up to its commitments to the Paris Agreement if it allows the expansion.

 

Preem, owned by Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi, is the largest refining company in Sweden, accounting for about 80% of market share.

 

(Reporting by Johan Ahlander in Gothenburg and Nerijus Adomaitis in Oslo; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

 

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25 minutes ago, webfact said:

A spokesman for Preem confirmed to Reuters that Greenpeace was blocking the tanker but said police were negotiating with the crew.

Negotiating?? They are breaking the law! Roundém up and jail the pack. Confiscate the boat.

co2 is good for biomass, and while there are more productive ways to recycle co2, greenpeace are at least trying as they drive their boats, but they need to adhere to traffic regulations at sea or get their driving license revoked

51 minutes ago, webfact said:

Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg said last week that Sweden would fail to live up to its commitments to the Paris Agreement if it allows the expansion.

 

Shows how ineffective her mouthing off has been.

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg said last week

immediately turned off  my ears????

24 minutes ago, scammed said:

co2 is good for biomass, and while there are more productive ways to recycle co2, greenpeace are at least trying as they drive their boats, but they need to adhere to traffic regulations at sea or get their driving license revoked

They should be rowing those  boats using bamboo to construct them to "save the  planet"

32 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Negotiating?? They are breaking the law! Roundém up and jail the pack. Confiscate the boat.

Harpoon em

Greenpeace seems pick and chose their battles choosing to concentrate on one spot while thousands other places around the glob law breakers and oil smugglers going unchecked...

Block the tanker using outboard motors burning fuel that no doubt came from the refinery they oppose.

Nutters.

Climate change is real. Something needs to be done.

 

Greenpeace are idiots and the rainbow warrior should follow iys previous namesake to the bottom of the ocean.

 

Also that moron watson who gets into the whaling boats., he should be in jail.

9 hours ago, ezzra said:

Greenpeace seems pick and chose their battles choosing to concentrate on one spot while thousands other places around the glob law breakers and oil smugglers going unchecked...

And that expanded effort would be funded how?

10 hours ago, scammed said:

co2 is good for biomass, and while there are more productive ways to recycle co2, greenpeace are at least trying as they drive their boats, but they need to adhere to traffic regulations at sea or get their driving license revoked

Good for biomass? Maybe not.

https://www.sciencealert.com/too-much-co2-makes-trees-live-fast-and-die-young-says-study

Excellent that someone is doing something. 

3 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Excellent that someone is doing something. 

says the guy who sits in the aircon at his computer ,using electricity ,and who either drives a car or rides a motorbike ,then flys around the world ,or did you walk to Thailand?

 

 

No aircon. So using oil means I can not object to expanding oil facilities, prefer environmental options over oil, believe alternatives are required if only due to  dwindling supplies, and try to use as little energy as possible?

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Greenpeace blocks tanker from delivering oil to Swedish refinery

How can they block a big Tanker like that one ? If the tanker keeps moving at a Slow Ease pace they can't stop the tanker, they will get Bumped out of the Way if not they are Stupid and get Run over .

Probable better than they won't be able to do it again.

1 hour ago, bert bloggs said:

says the guy who sits in the aircon at his computer ,using electricity ,and who either drives a car or rides a motorbike ,then flys around the world ,or did you walk to Thailand?

 

 

What’s the alternative?bottom line we have to evolve towards renewables or we will be extinct 

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

Excellent that someone is doing something. 

A  bit hypocritical

3 minutes ago, Nout said:

A  bit hypocritical

What is hypocritical, people who prefer renewables and less oil should stop living?

12 hours ago, ezzra said:

Greenpeace seems pick and chose their battles choosing to concentrate on one spot while thousands other places around the glob law breakers and oil smugglers going unchecked...

they are where media and money are.

14 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Negotiating?? They are breaking the law! Roundém up and jail the pack. Confiscate the boat.

Yeah, mother's finest.

 

14 hours ago, scammed said:

co2 is good for biomass, and while there are more productive ways to recycle co2, greenpeace are at least trying as they drive their boats, but they need to adhere to traffic regulations at sea or get their driving license revoked

Are they going electric?

4 hours ago, forehandplus said:

And that expanded effort would be funded how?

UN

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

No aircon. So using oil means I can not object to expanding oil facilities, prefer environmental options over oil, believe alternatives are required if only due to  dwindling supplies, and try to use as little energy as possible?

Sweat on.

17 minutes ago, hugocnx said:

Yeah, mother's finest.

 

To small milk as babies.