Although work has been temporarily halted on the Baltic Pipe project after the Danish Environmental Protection Agency revoked the Danish Environmental Protection Agency's environmental permit for the project, protesters on Monday morning chose to carry out an action against two of the projects' construction sites.
Here, several protesters from the group "Baltic Pipe No Thanks" chained themselves to a number of machines at the construction sites. The authorities were immediately called in to cut the protesters free.
The activists blocked the construction work for several hours, where the group demonstrated against Energinet continuing the work, even though the environmental permit has now been waived.
However, Energinet has already said that part of the work needs to continue.
- We have a 210 km long construction site across Denmark, and we cannot just jump out of the excavators and leave the construction sites. We need to shut down in a responsible manner, and therefore there will still be people working in several different places on the route, says Marian Kaagh and adds:
- We need to make sure that no one gets hurt – both those working on the project and the people who live and travel along the construction sites. We also need to ensure that it is done in an environmentally responsible manner, so that we do not inadvertently cause damage with an abrupt shutdown, for example if we stopped in the middle of working on crossing a watercourse instead of completing the crossing, says Marian Kaagh.
However, the group was very unhappy with the continuation of work on the Baltic Pipe:
- Our assumption is that they will continue and then hope that they can get a new permit before their work is finished. But with our action today we want to ensure that the work stops completely, says spokesperson Luca Jensen to TV2 Fyn.
The "Baltic Pipe No Thanks" group states that all protesters are "free again and in good spirits".
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