Greenpeace members end Czech power plant protest

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PRAGUE (AFP) — Greenpeace activists Friday ended a two-day protest on top of the chimney of the biggest thermal power plant in the Czech Republic, which they say is the country's biggest polluter.

"We succeeded in attracting attention about the links between the biggest Czech thermal plant which emits the most carbon dioxide, the company CEZ, carbon extraction and the Czech position on climate change," spokesman Jan Pinos said.

The Prunerov II plant in the north of the country near the German border is considered to be the country's biggest polluter, spewing out 8.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

Eleven activists from Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic scaled the 150 metre (495-feet) chimney on Thursday...