The action of Greenpeace, in which the lock of IJmuiden is blocked, has ended. The municipality of Velsen confirms this to the NOS. The mayor had ordered Greenpeace to lift the blockade.
Greenpeace had previously refused to leave the airlock, but the action ended after police intervention. According to a spokesperson for the municipality, everything went well. 13 activists were arrested.
Environmentalists campaigned against soybean imports and blocked the Noordersluis lock and a ship carrying a cargo of soybeans from Brazil at 10 p.m. last night. Greenpeace supporters were hung on ropes a few meters above the water in front of the lock gates. They couldn’t open it without endangering them.
Nineteen ships were delayed this afternoon due to the blockade. Jordy Husslage, assistant captain of the Port of Amsterdam, says that companies have also suffered damage as a result. Ships sailed through the large sea lock to Amsterdam.
The harbor master says that the ship in the lock, the Crimson Ace, has yet to sail. “This ship is loaded with 60 million kilos of soy,” Meike Rijksen of Greenpeace told the newspaper this morning. NOS Radio 1 News“Most of these foods go straight into the stomachs of our cows, chickens and pigs,” he added.
Importance of campaign
Mayor Frank Dales van Velsen said earlier that he respects the right to protest, but sooner or later the protest will stop. “I also have other responsibilities and at some point I have to make a decision: enough time has passed.”
In addition to these other responsibilities, Dales highlights the importance of navigation. Some ships can only pass through the Noordersluis, not through the main lock.
right of the strongest
Soybean production has been linked to deforestation and human rights violations. Greenpeace asks the EU to speed up the adoption of a “forest law”. This states that companies must be able to demonstrate for their soy that no nature has been destroyed or human rights have been violated.
Such a law is being prepared, but according to Greenpeace is taking too long and the proposal is “slippery as a basket”. The action group asks Nature and Nitrogen Minister Van der Wal and his European colleagues the word that the EU will soon adopt a good forest law. “We’ve talked enough, every two seconds a piece of forest from two football fields goes to the buttons,” said Rijksen.
Source: NOS
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