[CBC News, August 31, 2007.]

"Three Greenpeace activists were arrested Thursday afternoon during an attempt to stop the delivery of nearly 30,000 tonnes of coal to the Nanticoke power plant on the shore of Lake Erie, south of Hamilton. The activists' storming of the ore carrier comes a day after the Ontario Power Authority released a new power plan that calls for more than $25 billion to be spent on nuclear power plants to ensure the province's electricity supply until 2025. 'We're trying to draw attention to dirty energy in the upcoming Ontario election, specifically coal and nuclear power,' said Brian Cox, the Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada. 'It is our belief that coal and nuclear goes hand in hand'... On Thursday morning, five members of the environmental group approached and boarded the Algomarine ore carrier using inflatable boats launched from the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise... Before boarding, [they] painted an anti-coal slogan on the vessel's hull that read, 'No coal, no nuclear ? clean energy'... Three of the five protesters proceeded to chain themselves to the discharge room, the area where the unloading of the coal takes place... Then Ontario Provincial Police arrived and arrested the chained protesters... The Nanticoke station is one of four coal-fired plants in Ontario first targeted by the Liberal government for closure in 2007. But the government later pushed the deadline back to 2009 and then to 2014."