A demonstration at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki was held today in solidarity with brothers and sisters in Canada, Sweden, Niger, Australia, Sotkamo, Olkiluoto and all places destroyed by the nuclear industry.
Leaking barrels of ‘radioactive waste’ trickled down the granite steps as energetic musicians sang anti-nuke songs. Banners covering the steps read “Blockade/Shut Down Olkiluoto – Put Waste Here!” and “Sold to Uranium Capitalism”.
Demonstrators wanted to express their disgust at recent revelations that Ms. Lehtimaki (or rather the family of) from the Environment Ministry owns 300,000 euros of stock in the Talvivaara Uranium Mining Company. This investment (for her family) came around the same time the company was permitted to process uranium from their nickel mine in eastern Finland.
This summer the parliament paved the way for a massive increase of radioactive waste by voting to build two more reactors in Finland, a country currently building the world’s largest reactor at Olkiluoto. This August about 200 people blockaded the roads to this nuclear facility in the first openly announced nuclear blockade. The Blockade Olkiluoto banner was to remind people of the dangerous road this government is taking us all down, and that we have a responsibility to blockade these roads, rails, ports and paths…for generations to come.
The planned shipment of nuclear waste from Canada to Sweden is absurd, as are all shipments of this lethal cargo.
We hope that people across the globe can work together to shut down the whole nuclear industry.
Sincerely yours,
The Radioactive Waste Folk Punk Brigade
And Nuclear Free Finland
For photos of the sunny Helsinki day can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54385173@N05/sets/72157625061420342/
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