Greenpeace Blockades Freighter in Spanish Port
<i> Reuters</i>
BILBAO, Spain —
The environmental group Greenpeace said Tuesday it is blockading a freighter in the port of Bilbao to stop it from unloading a cargo of toxic steel dust from German and Swedish factories.
The Antigua-registered freighter Baltica sailed last week with 1,500 tons of steel dust contaminated with the poison dioxin from pollution control devices for recycling in Bilbao, Greenpeace said.
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