Fonterra's Auckland headquarters was evacuated this morning after reports suspicious boxes were chained inside the 9-storey building's elevator shafts.A Fonterra spokesperson said it appeared Greenpeace activists were responsible and had also barricaded t
Fonterra’s Auckland headquarters was evacuated this morning after reports suspicious boxes were chained inside the 9-storey building’s elevator shafts.
A Fonterra spokesperson said it appeared Greenpeace activists were responsible and had also barricaded the entrance to the building.
Greenpeace's website indicated the activity was a protest against the use of palm kernel extract as supplementary stock feed.
At 9am it appeared the building had been declared safe and police were inside examining boxes.
Greenpeace activists were outside handing out propaganda claiming Fonterra was contributing to deforestation in Indonesia.
The protest has occurred just hours before Fonterra was due to release its annual report and details of the final milk payout and dividend for last season to its suppliers.
It was unclear if the bomb scare and today’s protest would affect the release of the results.
This protest comes four months after Greenpeace protestors chained themselves together to block the fuel depot at Fonterra’s Clandeboye factory in Canterbury.
Then the activist organisation was protesting against the company’s use of coal.
