Greenpeace activists flew a drone into a nuclear energy plant in France in a public stunt to show how vulnerable the plants are to terrorist attacks, Agence France Presse reports.
The drone flew through restricted airspace before hitting a nuclear waste storage pool next to a reactor, according to a video the environmental group released Tuesday. The waste storage facility is one of the most radioactive areas of the plant, AFP reports.
“This is a highly symbolic action: it shows that spent fuel pools are very accessible, this time from the air, and therefore extremely vulnerable to attack,” Greenpeace France anti-nuclear campaign head Yannick Rousselet said in a statement, according to AFP.
France receives 75 percent of its energy from 19 nuclear power plants around the country. The nuclear plants are all managed by the utility EDF. The utility has said it will file a police complaint about the incident, Reuters reports.
“The presence of these drones had no impact on the security of the installations,” EDF said, according to Reuters.
Greenpeace activists have developed a history of outlandish acts to oppose fossil fuel and nuclear energy projects in many parts of the world. In 2012, activists took over a Russian oil rig in the Arctic “to declare … an end to the madness that is putting the profits of a few elites above the interests and safety of the rest of us.”
In April of 2016, Greenpeace activists climbed atop more than 15 statues in London and strapped gas masks to them to protest the city’s poor air quality.
“Monitoring shows that if these statutes were real people, many of them would often be breathing dangerous, illegal air,” Greenpeace said in a statement at the time.
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One of the orgional founders of Greenpeace quit because they became way too radical want wanted to ban Chrolrine and all they do is pull off stupid publicity stunts climbing on buildings and monuments to unfurl their stupid banners and signs run around in stupid costumes(Dressed as Polar Bears,Trashcans,Etc)and make total pests of themselves and while whining about Fossil Fuels while using it in their ships and zodiacs and in Peru where they ruin the Nazca Plain and now this idiotic stunt GREENPEACE IS STUPID
Why didn’t security open fire and kill those attackers? Were the French afraid of “offending” someone?
Environmentalists believe that they should try to ensure that their world-view is accepted by everyone else, if not by persuasion, then by coercion. In their view, matters of conscience (theirs) take precedence over everything else, even the law of the land. The insidious way in which they have infiltrated modern society and gained influence should give us all cause for concern.
Take, for example, the judicial system in the UK, supposedly a bastion of law and order. It’s hard to find justification for some decisions in the past 20 years. Here’s a few:
• 1996: A jury in Liverpool acquitted four women who caused £1.5 million damage to a Hawk jet Fighter at the British Aerospace factory;
• 1999: Three women were acquitted of causing £80,000 damage to Trident nuclear submarine equipment;
• 2000: Greenpeace director Lord Melchett and 27 activists were found not guilty of criminal damage, after ripping up a field of GM crops.
• 2000: Five Greenpeace activists were found not guilty of criminal damage after occupying a municipal incinerator in London. The prosecution (ie the taxpayer) was ordered to pay the costs of £250,000.
• 2007: Six Greenpeace activists scaled a chimney at Kingsnorth power station in Kent and daubed slogans on it causing £26,000 worth of damage. Found not guilty.
• 2015: Thirteen activists were found guilty of aggravated trespass when they blocked runways at Heathrow, causing 25 flight cancellations and what the judge called “astronomical cost”. Nevertheless, they were spared jail and given just six weeks’ suspended sentence.
It seems that when one is “acting out of conscience”, it’s ok to break the law. But it’s just another example of the extent to which the Environmentalist zeal has spread its message into popular
culture. Environmentalists will justify their actions by claiming they are fighting for Corporate Social Responsibility.
In any just society, it is reasonable to expect businesses to be responsible when it comes to fair wages, hygienic working conditions, pollution control, waste management and the like. In this context, the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility is not only reasonable, but highly desirable. Environmentalists clearly believe that business and industry don’t do enough in this regard, so they often take to illegal actions to enforce their beliefs. It doesn’t seem to matter to them that they usually have no personal stake in the issue, whether as an employee, a shareholder or one living close to a nuisance. These Environmentalists are an unelected, extremist political pressure group, accountable to no-one except themselves.
It’s a real pity that the Environmentalists’ conscience doesn’t ever seem to encompass a wider view of the consequences of many of their actions. Like all religious movements, their principal focus is to spread their good news and present a pattern for the rest of us to live our lives. It wouldn’t be so bad if they confined themselves to gentle persuasion, but too often they resort to force. Their behaviour has echoes of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages when religious dogma was enforced by draconian means. Those days are over for the Catholic Church, though it is still common in some faiths today, including Environmentalism.
Greenpeace is just a corporate brand now in a competitive market . Shaking people down with green guilt medicine before someone else in their space does .
They need new gimmicks . Deface historic artifacts , hang from buildings , a drone or two . All part of the spring campaign . Cheap stunts and low cost advertising .
Let is sit and measure Greenpeace’s Carbon Footprint lets see how many football fields large it is just like Al Bore and Leonardo DiCaprios