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Six UK Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Anti-Coal Action

HeadlineJun 23, 2009

In England, six activists with Greenpeace were arrested Monday after they boarded a moving bulk freighter carrying thousands of tons of coal bound for a coal-fired power station.

Sarah Shoraka, Greenpeace: “We’re here to stop coal being delivered to Kingsnorth power station, because coal is the single-most climate-wrecking fuel there is.”

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