Posted on 05/19/2016 8:10:35 AM PDT by Lorianne
Today, more than 1,000 residents and 70 partner organizations from around the Midwest region protested at BP Whiting Refinery, demanding that hazardous fossil fuels stay in the ground and that the Midwest Region accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy.
After marching two miles amid the stench of tar and sulphur permeating nearby neighborhoods, 41 of the protesters sat in a circle outside BP’s gates and were arrested by police in riot gear, and released shortly after. This was one of largest mass arrests related to environmental issues and extractive fossil fuel industries in Indiana’s history.
This escalated action took place in coordination with peaceful mobilizations across six continents under the global platform Break Free, in which ordinary people targeted prominent fossil fuels projects in the name of climate justice.
BP Whiting Refinery, which has the capacity to process more than 400,000 barrels per day of crude oil, has a history of putting profits before people. From piling up petroleum waste that pollutes the air of nearby residents, to the 2014 spill of more than 1,600 gallons of oil and tar sands into Lake Michigan – the surrounding region’s source of drinking water – the devastation inflicted by the refinery is felt throughout the Midwest. Enbridge pipelines, which transport tar sands from Alberta, Canada, through Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois to the BP Whiting Refinery, have torn through indigenous lands and in 2010, spilled more than 800,000 gallons of oil and tar sands into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River - the largest inland oil spill in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at resourceinvestor.com ...
I had to wipe the bias off myself after reading that.
I don’t have my conversion chart on me....
What does 1,000 environmental marches to the media equal in actual numbers? 100? 50?
I know 1,000 actual Right to Life marchers is 5 to the media.
Oh, brother. The Daily Worker apparently has opened a branch office.
I'm okay with the crazy Bolsheviks cooking and keeping warm with renewable wood fires, living to age 20 and justly being eaten by wild animals.
lol
“After marching two miles”
After driving 200 miles.
These weenies can go live in a cave and light their farts for heat and light. The rest of us can use the extra gasoline.
Oh, and they can stuff the windmills in there with them to smack them in the asses.
Wouldn’t it be nice if people who object to fossil fuels could be forced to use only energy from sources of which they approve?
Paid protestors again.
How do those “protesters” charge their cell phones?
5.56mm
I wonder how they traveled to the protest site?
BP should shut it down and take their good paying jobs and taxes to a friendlier location...
Be sure they don’t trespass or arrest and prosecute these fools. Thee is absolutely no “global warming”!! They will now tell us what the objective measurable criteria is on what they now have changed to “Climate Change” The entire lie they tell is to take your stuff!!
Silly person. Everyone under 25 knows that all they need to do is find a wall outlet, plug their charger in and just like magic they have electricity. Obviously older people haven’t figured this out yet. /s/
“demanding that hazardous fossil fuels stay in the ground and that the Midwest Region accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy.”
How stupid ARE people, anyway?
Rent-a-mob propaganda.
Every one of those “protesters” would die this winter if they had no fossil fuels.
And a “paper” that merely repeats the propaganda group’s latest press release.
Illinois should ban all fossil fuels. That will shut down all economic activity there. Other than the fleeing roach effect, ending Chicago as a hotbed of criminal politics would be a very good thing. That would empty it out faster than Detroit. After the next statewide election, downstate voters will be able to restore sanity to the state, fiscal and otherwise.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.