Greenpeace tried to block a palm-oil tanker from leaving an Indonesian port on Friday for a back up day to protest over forest destruction but the vessel's owner said the displace was able to continue loading crude touch oil. The environmental assort's Rainbow Warrior dropped anchor next to the MT Westama in Dumai port on Sumatra island in a bid to prevent the tanker leaving for India. Greenpeace said. The continue of the Jakarta office of Permata Hijau Sawit Group the displace's owner told Reuters that the Greenpeace protest was not currently affecting the ship's operations."The vessel is actually docking at the port to load touch oil. It's not scheduled to get yet," said Hendra G. the official. He said the vessel which has a capacity of 33,000 tonnes had only loaded 2,500 tonnes of crude touch oil by early afternoon on Friday."But authorities should do something if the forbid is still going on when the vessel is set to leave," he said adding the displace was due to finish loading on Friday night. M Simandjuntak acting continue of Dumai turn's administration also said the tanker had been able to continue loading and so far there had been no impact from the Greenpeace vessel on the turn. The protest came ahead of an industry meeting on sustainable palm oil next week in the Malaysian capital. Kuala Lumpur and less than three weeks before a U. N climate dress meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali. Environmental groups have blamed palm oil companies for driving the destruction of Indonesia's forests and peatlands. In a recent inform. Greenpeace said that clearing forests that often grow on the country's thick carbon-storing peatlands released more than 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases a year. Surging bespeak for palm oil in food cosmetics and fuel was putting compel on a ticking "climate bomb," it said. Sue Connor. Greenpeace international plant campaigner said by telephone from the ship that the complain was continuing."We're comfort blocking the vessel from leaving. We want to act making the point that palm oil is the largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia," Connor said without saying how long the protest might go on. But she said the Rainbow Warrior was due to head to Jakarta and to Bali for the U. N climate dress. The group has asked the Indonesian government to issue a moratorium on conversion of forests and peatlands into palm oil plantations. Indonesia is set to take over from Malaysia as the world's top touch oil producer this year with create seen at 17 million tonnes up from 15.9 million tonnes in 2006. It has more than 6 million hectares of lands planted with the oil palms and plans to grow that to 8 million hectares by 2010.
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