11.  His decision after becoming president in May unleashed a wave of protests from governments and ecological groups.

12.  His decision, shortly after taking office, unleashed a wave of protests from governments and ecological groups.

13.  In Madrid, a spokesman for the ecological group Greenpeace said it had nothing to do with the hijacking.

14.  A French ecological group on Sunday nominated its leader as an official candidate for presidential elections next year, officials said.

15.  According to the ecological group Robin Wood, the convoy will take a southern route through Germany and cross France before continuing on to Britain.

16.  But a number of ecological groups have held protests and called for boycotts of French public companies in Italy.

17.  But ecological groups had criticized the project as overly costly and damaging to the environment.

18.  But the protests were not limited to actions around the test site by a flotilla of ships operated by committed anti-nuclear ecological groups such as Greenpeace.

19.  Ecological groups say its nuclear submarines anchored in the Kola peninsula in the far north present a huge danger.

20.  Ecological groups, meanwhile, criticize the legislation as far too conservative, allowing what they call a reckless method of producing energy to remain in operation over decades.