Återställ Våtmarker spray painted and glued themselves to a private jet at Bromma airport
For the second time a private jet was sprayed with paint at Bromma airport. Maj, 30, and Rufus, 24, went to Bromma and spray painted the plane to sound the alarm and raise awareness about climate chaos in Sweden. This time they also climbed the plane and glued themselves to it. This is the final action Restore Wetlands is doing in a series of actions at different airports around the country. Restore Wetlands’ goal is to achieve a total ban on peat mining in order to reduce carbon emissions.
– No amount of threats to convict peaceful climate activists of terrorist crimes will stop us. There is far more at stake. When science says humanity is under threat and politicians make things worse, ordinary people must act,” says Pontus Bergendahl, press spokesperson for Restore Wetlands.
Peatlands make up 3% of the Earth’s land surface. Unspoiled peatlands store more than twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined. Peat emits more carbon dioxide than coal, oil and gas when it is mined, burned in heating plants or used in planting soil. In Sweden, the Finnish state-owned company Neova accounts for over 70% of peat mining. Meanwhile, the Finnish government is receiving €466 million in subsidies from the EU to phase out its own peat mining.
The debate on peat has recently become increasingly heated. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, among others, argue for a stop to peat mining due to its high emissions, while peat mining producers defend their activities. The turmoil surrounding Neova’s peat mining in Grimsås in Tranemo municipality has been an ongoing conflict and became even more topical when Restore Wetlands stopped excavators and built a nature reserve on the bog in the summer of 2024.
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Press spokesperson
Pontus Bergendahl
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Facts about Peat
The Restore Wetlands campaign aims to get the government to ban destructive peat mining with immediate effect, and thereby ban foreign fossil fuel companies, such as Finnish state-owned Neova, from operating in Sweden. Land where peat mining has taken place should be immediately restored to viable wetlands to immediately reduce Sweden’s emissions, protect against forest fires and droughts, clean and replenish groundwater reserves and increase biodiversity.
Launched at the end of March 2022, Restore Wetlands is a coalition of people who, through peaceful resistance, intend to force the Swedish government to ban peat mining and restore wetlands to take the first necessary step towards protecting their population instead of destroying it. Restore Wetlands is part of an international network, the A22 Network, of resistance taking place in 10 different countries.
Restore Wetlands’ vision is an improved democracy where people decide through citizens’ councils how our country will become a country free of toxins and pollution where our children can grow up safe and healthy, a society where we live in harmony with nature and with each other.