Green Activists Target Lake Erie Coal Ship

OTTAWA — Three Greenpeace activists who boarded and chained themselves to a coal carrier in Lake Erie on Thursday morning have been arrested.

Greenpeace spokesman Shawn-Patrick Stensil said the Ontario Provincial Police made the arrests shortly after noon.

Greenpeace activists boarded and chained themselves to a coal carrier
in Lake Erie on Thursday. The Algomarine was en route to Ontario’s
Nanticoke Generating Station, which the environmental organization
claims is Canada’s largest source of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.

Photograph by : Greenpeace Canada/HANDOUT

Dominique Du Sablon, 20, of Toronto; Charlie Latimer, 25, of Vancouver; and Emily-Elizabeth Storey, 22, of Toronto have each been charged with two counts of mischief, a Greenpeace spokeswoman said.

The Algomarine was en route to Ontario’s Nanticoke Generating Station — which is located on the north shore of Lake Erie in Haldimand County, southeast of Simcoe — and was carrying 30,000 tonnes of coal.

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The environmental organization, claims Nanticoke is Canada’s largest source of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions and the province’s biggest source of smog-causing pollution.