Greenpeace activists continue protest at Prunéřov II site

A group of Greenpeace activists have spent a second day on top of a 300-metre chimney at the coal-fired power plant at the centre of the row which caused Jan Dusík to quit as environment minister. Five of the 13 activists who forced their way onto the Prunéřov site in north-west Bohemia on Monday remained there overnight and said they would decide whether to come down depending on political developments. Greenpeace accuses the company of responsibility for Mr Dusík’s resignation and say the new minister of the environment can only banish suspicions he is a ČEZ placeman by blocking its plans. A report by Norwegian organisation DNV for the environment ministry last week said ČEZ had not used the best available technology for the proposed modernisation with higher pollution a result.