Greenpeace protests at Arctic coal mine
Arctic Focus, October 5, 2009
On Friday members of Greenpeace blocked a coal mine in the archipelago in Arctic Norway. The environmental group was protesting plans for further coal production in the deep Arctic region. Over a dozen people protested by stopping a conveyor belt at the Svea mine that was carrying coal to a vessel that was scheduled to go to Portugal with a 70,000 ton load of coal this past week end.