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| 50 climate activists charged after 'halt', shovelling of coal train in Australia |
| 2023-04-17 |
| [GEO.TV] At least 50 climate change screeching muppets were charged with unlawful demonstration near Australia's largest coal export port on Sunday after protesters climbed on a coal train and shovelled the coal. New South Wales state police said 47 demonstrators were charged with "rail corridor offences", two with malicious damage and one with assaulting a security guard in relation to the "unlawful protest activity" near the Port of Newcastle, some 170 km (105 miles) from the state capital Sydney. Climate screeching muppet group Rising Tide, which grabbed credit for the protest, said arrests were made when people were "occupying the train". In a statement, the group said: "Twenty of the group scaled the train and used shovels to unload coal from the laden wagons." Police said 14 screeching muppets had climbed onto a train carriage in a railway corridor in the suburb of Sandgate. Climate change is a polarized issue in Australia, which is the world's top exporter of coal. The centre-left Labor government does not support a ban on all new fossil fuel projects. It sees "safeguard mechanism" reform laws as key to its pledge to cut emissions by 43% by 2030 in a country that ranks as one of the world's biggest carbon emitters per capita. The Port of Newcastle is the largest bulk shipping port on Australia’s east coast and the nation's largest terminal for coal exports, according to the New South Wales government. The protest group posted an image on Twitter showing protesters in front and on top of a coal train. A banner on the train said, "'Survival Guide for Humanity': no new coal". The group tweeted it had "halted coal" into the port and was demanding the Labor Party to "immediately cancel all new coal projects". A Port of Newcastle spokesperson said shipping operations were operating normally on Sunday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Just sweep the front with machine gun fire. No more Muppets. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2023-04-17 18:27 |
| #3 Thanks for the sweet memories, Mike. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2023-04-17 16:01 |
| #2 #1 Should have just opened the throttle. Posted by: USN, Ret. 2023-04-17 04:44 ...Many, many years ago a group of Screeching Muppets(TM) decided to lay on the railroad tracks leading into the US Navy's Trident base in Bremerton, WA. They knew that the train, carrying nuclear warheads (actually pretty easy to tell when one knows what one is looking for) would stop, and they could make their performative protest. Except...since the train had weapons aboard, IT DIDN'T STOP. One of the Screeching Muppets lost his legs, and the lead engineer on the train sued him for pain and suffering. Interestingly, that sort of thing does not seem to have happened again. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-04-17 12:21 |
| #1 Should have just opened the throttle. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2023-04-17 04:44 |