Hufvudstadsbladet reports that Finnish and Swedish Greenpeace activists stopped a Dutch tanker carrying Russian fossil gas from unloading its cargo at an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in Nynäshamn, south of Stockholm.
"Coral Energy is no longer in Nynäshamn. It has turned around. I don't know where it's headed, but I hope the Russian gas is not unloaded in another Swedish port," Karolina Carlsson, campaign leader at Greenpeace Nordic, told HBL.
Finnish state-owned Gasum has regularly imported gas from Russian Gazprom to Sweden and Finland, the paper explained, noting that the Russian firm is included on western sanctions lists.
"Six months after the war broke out a state-owned company is financing Russia's war machine," Olli Tiainen of Greenpeace Finland told the Swedish-language daily.
A Greenpeace statement claims that in addition to direct shipments, Gazprom gas is transported "via a more intricate arrangement where the gas is first transhipped to other vessels at sea."
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No confidence
While EU energy ministers are set to meet on Friday to mull bloc-wide measures to respond to the surge in gas and power prices, Helsingin Sanomat reports that the Finns Party has announced it will file an interpellation against PM Sanna Marin's government over its energy policy.
The opposition party argues that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not the only factor contributing to rising energy prices, but argues that the government’s climate policy is exacerbating the situation.
The nationalist party also expressed dissatisfaction with the premier's handling of turmoil surrounding majority state-owned energy company Fortum and its German subsidiary Uniper.
Glowing waters
One hour after sundown the water along the Finnish coast is inky black but surface movement can expose a luminescent glow which, according to Helsingin Sanomat, is produced by phosphorescent marine organisms. The phenomenon, known as sea fire, has been observed in the waters outside Naantali, Tammisaari and the Åland Islands.
The blue twinkle is caused by Alexandrium ostenfeldii, a toxic organism now thriving due to climate change.
The algae emits saxitocin, a neurotoxin. It causes skin prickling and numbing in small amounts, but can paralyse or cause death in worst-case scenarios.
"Mussels filter water and therefore contain a huge amount of poison. Eating a few of them is enough to poison you," Sanna Suikkanen of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) told HS.