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Greenpeace Incinerator Activists Charged
June 17 Auckland: Three Greenpeace activists were arrested and charged with trespass and unlawfully being upon a building after shutting down the Waste Resources Limited’s Auckland waste incinerator early this morning.
The three activists scaled the chimney and placed a cap on the stack to prevent the incinerator from firing up, before locking themselves to the chimney.
They will appear in court and are expected to be released later today.
Greenpeace joined 126 community groups and environmental organisations spanning 54 countries today, to call on governments and industry to stop burning waste.
Waste incineration releases dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals known.
The Waste Resources incinerator has been breaching its resource consent for dioxin pollution for the last two years. There is no safe level of dioxin.
Greenpeace wants the Government to ban incineration, and Waste Resources Limited to change to clean alternative methods of treating waste.
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