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Greenpeace activists (R) stand chained to the gates outside 24 Sussex Drive while a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer keeps watch in Ottawa March 19, 2007. Five Greenpeace activists blockaded the main gates at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's residence on Monday, in protest of his failure to support the Kyoto protocol on climate change. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Greenpeace activists (R) stand chained to the gates outside 24 Sussex Drive while a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer keeps watch in Ottawa March 19, 2007. Five Greenpeace activists blockaded the main gates at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's residence on Monday, in protest of his failure to support the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

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OTTAWA | Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:50pm EDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Five Greenpeace activists blockaded the main gates at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's residence on Monday, in protest of his failure to support the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

The five, carrying a placard branding Harper a "climate criminal," attached a bicycle lock to the gates of Harper's official residence and then chained themselves to the gate.

They stayed there for three hours before being detained by police.

"Greenpeace activists were arrested, but the real crime is the failure to fight global warming," said Dave Martin of the activist group's Canadian wing.

Harper, elected in January 2006, has said Canada cannot meet its Kyoto targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions widely blamed for causing global warming.

No one in Harper's office was immediately available for comment.
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