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Greenpeace blocks Russian gas offloading in Finland Greenpeace activists on Saturday blocked an offloading of Russian gas at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Tornio, northwestern Finland. A week earlier, activists from the international non-governmental organization also blocked an unloading of Russian gas at a natural gas terminal in Nynäshamn, near Stockholm, Sweden. “It is a cargo ship containing liquefied natural gas from Russia,” Olga Väisänen, spokesperson for the Finnish group Gasum, importer of the blocked delivery, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Mika Kolehmainen, director of Manga LNG, the terminal manager, told AFP that the action began around 7 a.m. local time (8 a.m. in Paris). The operator said that activists were mounted on loading arms and that two boats were outside the terminal area, located very close to the Swedish border. “It is completely unacceptable that Russian gas is still allowed to flow into Finland, more than six months after Putin began his invasion of Ukraine,” Greenpeace activist Olli Tiainen said in a statement. Russia had stopped gas deliveries by pipeline to Finland in May, citing problems with payments, but shipments of Russian liquefied gas by ship continue. “The Finnish government and Prime Minister Sanna Marin must ban all Russian fossil fuel imports immediately,” he added. On Wednesday, tension had risen a notch between Moscow and the European Union on the issue of Russian gas deliveries, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening to cease all deliveries of hydrocarbons in the event of a price cap, a project relaunched the same day by Brussels. There are currently no European sanctions on gas imports from Russia, only on oil and coal. Read also: As winter approaches, a global battle for LNG has begun