Posted on 06/14/2008 12:51:07 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Climate change campaigners halted a coal train yesterday outside Drax, Britain's biggest power station, and shovelled its contents on to the only line into the plant. More than 20 tonnes of coal blocked the tracks as protesters strung ropes between the train and the girders of a river bridge as police watched from a distance. More than 30 protesters swarmed aboard the 21-wagon freight service. Hidden in banks of cow parsley beside the line to Drax, North Yorkshire they struck at 8am after watching two empty trains arrive to collect ash in the previous two hours. The train had halted after unwittingly obeying an exact copy of railway emergency procedures. Posing as rail staff in fluorescent jackets, a small group of protesters waved red flags in a precise sequence to stop the EWS freight train on an iron girder bridge over the river Aire. Most of the group then clambered up the bridge and dropped food, water and bedding for at least 24 hours from its overhead beams on to the flat tops of the trucks. "We've enough for at least two days," said Ben Tennyson, one of the Climate Camp activists, as a mobile lavatory was swung aboard by a woman campaigner dressed as a canary - coal-mining's traditional warning of danger. A banner was then draped along one of the trucks reading Leave it in the Ground - the slogan of the group's "total war" on mining and burning coal. "We're stopping the train because it's absolute nonsense to be burning coal when we should be tackling climate change," another protester told a woman commuter, late for work, who was one of a jam of motorists blocked at nearby Hirst Courtney level crossing.
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These are not dissidents exercising their rights, they are arrogant, narcissistic, terrorists bent on asserting their power regardless of the cost to others.
Their ban on DDT has cost millions of lives in Africa and Asia, their ongoing opposition to development in the third world threatens to consume millions more, and their campaign against western energy independence could well have even more sinister motives.
They are a menace, a totalitarian political movement potentially as deadly as communism or the Third Reich. Note that the eco-beasts have openly declared "total war." They should have it.
The madness of the Left knows no bounds
Boy, are they ever going to feel stupid when they find out global warming is a big lie...
The "conservation" movement was hijacked long ago by leftists, and bastardized into their latest "crisis" used for justifying government control. We shouldn't be surprised that it looks very much like their previous "crises" - namely national and international socialism.
The environment is the new proletariat, but their means and ends are the same.
If they don't then they fail to stop any coal burning and the extra cost of cleaning up the mess will be passed on to consumers and the diesel loaders used will result in a bigger carbon footprint.
“We’re stopping the train because it’s absolute nonsense to be burning coal when we should be tackling climate change,”
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Only 1 train? Awwww, not good enough. A million trains should stop “climate change”.
The Police waited a whole day before they did anything. Todays cops have had their nuts removed by do gooders. A lot of them are so demoralized they won’t do anything unless ordered to do so. It’s not just Britain either. I have experienced Police failing to do their duty twice in the last week here in Australia.
Mel
The new world and Obama is in the mix.
My thoughts as well, I couldn’t have said it any better.
How come nobody ever lies down in front of stuff to stop ozone layer depletion anymore?
It is tyrannical Communism. Same as always.
Why were they not shot?
“Why were they not shot?”
It would look bad on TV.
Without the reliable support of the activist media and the billions in free propaganda they provide to the eco-terrorists, these lawless gangs would be stamped out in a matter of hours.
The eco-terrorist movement is essentially an auxiliary arm of the media-industrial complex, providing the MSM with nice sound-bite friendly scare stories and lots of picturesque rebel-in-action footage. In return the media provide protection and propaganda. Many eco-activists are in fact schooled in the media trades, it is a major alternative path for mass-com grads who fail to make the big-time or even the yokel news.
You can’t live in a modern industrial society (or postmodern information society) without plenty of electric power.
These people are deciding for everyone that they can’t live this way. And they are pretty much the same group that would be protesting and stopping via lawsuit construction of a new nuclear plant, which doesn’t have the “carbon footprint” of a coal plant.
Exactly. What incentive do the police have to act in these situations? They can only get in trouble. Because the people don’t stand up for their rights and the politicians pee their panties at the thought of taking bold action.
They want us all to live in Paleolithic Squalor.
“boy, are they ever going to feel stupid when they find out global warming is a big lie...”
they already know that global warming is a big lie. the only thing they know is keeping their world revolution alive by any means.
I do not know about the UK, or Australia for that matter, but come here to Florida and try that stunt. The cops here will have you suited up and on your way in short order.
The police should have gone in with force and bust this up. Our police have been emaciated by political correctness.
If they had bust this up with force - THEN our MSM would have this splashed all over the front pages!
Nope. We were on the brink of an Ice Age back in the 70s, and the solution was to reduce population and cut back on technology in preparation for the crisis. Within a decade, they'll realize that anthropogenic global warming has been stopped through the heroic efforts of Al Gore, and they'll start preparing to fight the next global climate crisis ... for which the solution will again be to limit population and technology.
So here’s the question: If the police had gone in and bloodied these Marxists, would the majority of British citizens approve?
In related news: labor organizers are planning a protest over recent coal shortages and price increases.
Only shows you don't understand their indestructable sense of superiority and infallibility.
I don't know (Repeat, "I don't know") whether or not anthrogenic global warming is a serious problem, but I strongly doubt it is anything like as serious as alarmist claim. Nevertheless, I wouldn't characterize it as a big lie, so much as a delusion and a fad.
When this fad passes another will take its place and the same deluded fools will embrace it just a fervently.
A lot of the environmental movement is advanced by deliberate falsehoods, which their promulagators rationalize as necessary to a good cause. Personally, I perfer the cause of truth over any "movement".
Boy, are they ever going to feel stupid when they find out global warming is a big lie...
No, they will want to take credit for preventing global weather change
Many Brits would say ‘god on you’..... but if I am honest the press would turn on the police and the Liberal/lefties would come out of it looking like innocent Bamby's.
Last point, I think the average Brit is beginning to get a pair back ...only beginning mind you. There is a genuine change in the air.
a new nuclear plant, which doesn’t have the “carbon footprint” of a coal plant.
But these a-holes will argue that it has a nuclear footprint that last for thousands of years.
That is exactly correct.
Like any movement, there are those that are easily led through ignorance, and stupidity, but the leaders of this Gaia movement are the same despotic personalities that brought us communism and totalitarian socialism.
Time to thin the herds.
Hey Vimto,my brother in law is a former Rhoadisian living in London for the past 20 or so years.He tells us there are plenty of you Brits who are getting really pissed over this sort of thing. [really pissed as in angry not drunk]
If the electric plant bought enough carbon offsets from algore they wouldn't have any problems, they could produce as much soot as they wanted without altering the atmosphere.</sarcasm>
When I hear about these types of things happening-attacking infrastruce, energy suppliers, builders- I think of Atlas Shrugged and wonder what these nitwits would do if they couldn’t go back to their little air conditioned, flush toilet, BBC spewing flats.
You say that environmentalists are as dangerous as Communism. I would argue that environmentalism is the new face of Communism.
A good example of this is the almost universal condemnation of David Davies in the MSM for resigning his parliamentary seat over the attack on our civil liberties.
Everyone I speak to however understand what he has done and are thankful that he would potentially sacrifice his career for a point of principle.
I think our stiff upper lip, phlegmatic approach to life has been taken adbvantage of by the liberal/lefties, we are fed up with decent people falling foul of the law, Islam rising and taking over large segments of our cities, being lied to politicians who are out of touch with the working man, and a police force that is more interested in diversity training than catching criminals. Yes - all that rant was a bit rhetorical I know, but there is much truth in there.
Good to hear from you. Regards to your Rhodesian friend.
You know, I couldn't help noticing that myself. Though I admit I would've paid to see that female protester in the canary suit with the porta-potty.
LOL! Yeah, to protect them from the mob of pi$$ed off folk swarming over the bridge and up that train trying to get their hands on them.
Come next winter, shut off their power and let them freeze!
Come next winter, shut off their power and let them freeze!
They wont freeze as they are a bunch of big fat hairy lesbians.
“They wont freeze as they are a bunch of big fat hairy lesbians.”
Not the “men.” They aren’t big and hairy at all.
If they manage to cut off electricity for a while the locals may reduce the carbon footprint of the region using medieval technology...like pitch forks and pick handles.
Sunspot 998 is dissolving leaving no sunspots again. Stopping coal trains sounds like a scene from Atlas Shrugged. Between sunspots and coal trains we are eventually going to have some severe correction in attitude.
Ping.
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