Greenpeace activists stage agrofuel protest in Vienna

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

VIENNA (AFP) — About 25 Greenpeace activists, some dressed as orangutans, blocked an OMV petrol station in Vienna Thursday, accusing the Austrian oil and gas giant of destroying the rainforest to make agrofuel.

A few of them brandished placards that read "OMV: no rainforest in the fuel tank."

"Whoever fills up at OMV is destroying up to ten square metres of rainforest," Jurrien Westerhof, an energy expert with Greenpeace Austria, said in a statement.

Greenpeace said fuel samples taken from OMV petrol stations had been found to contain soya and palm oil from Latin America and South East Asia.

"That shows a direct link between OMV agrofuel and the clearing of rainforests to set up plantations for palm or soya oil," said Westerhof.

However OMV...