ecotage

Occupation of Kingsnorth Power Plant

Around 5 am on October 2007, a group of 50 Greenpeace activists illegally broke into Kingsnorth power plant in Kent, England. The group split up into teams, each of whom targeted a different area. Their various "monkeywrenching" activities included immobilizing the conveyor belt and then chaining themselves to the machinery, climbing the 200 meter smokestack and then painting the word "Gordon" (after the Prime Minister of the time) on the chimney, and using an inflatable to occupy the jetty. After causing an estimated £30,000  in damage, the activists were caught and arrested. 

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a nongovernmental organization that seeks to promote environmental justice through a variety of methods of nonviolent activism. Greenpeace's website states the following as its mission: Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future (Greenpeace).