The Greenpeace plywood protest outside a government building development in London was continuing yesterday (Wednesday June 5), 24 hours after the first demonstrators arrived on the site.
The environmentalist group rejected claims by home secretary David Blunkett that the plywood used for hoarding and shuttering work at the Marsham Street home office site was made from sustainably managed timber.
Greenpeace campaigner John Sauven continued to insist that the material was, in fact, based on illegally felled timber from Indonesia, or from Indonesian companies which treated workers and people living around their forestry and timber operations poorly.
Mr Sauven claimed that the UK government could not prove the plywood was sustainably sourced “because there simply is no Indonesian rainforest plywood on the market right now that can be described as legal or sustainable”.
TTJ approached Bouygues, the building contractor involved in the Marsham Street development, and the Home Office for further comment about the protest. None was available at the time of publication.
