[Cja] Activists shut down world’s biggest coal port

[<Gary Cranston>]

    Activists shut down world’s biggest coal port

Posted: 26 September, 2010 by *withoutyourwalls* in Uncategorized 
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*5:30am, Sunday 26th September 2010:*

Global warming activists have shut down operations at all three coal 
terminals in the Port of Newcastle, Australia, the world’s largest 
exporter of coal.

At dawn this morning, teams of people entered the three coal terminals 
in Newcastle. The activists climbed to the top of large ship loading 
machines, and abseiled part-way down structural cables that suspend the 
loaders over coal ships. The ship loaders can’t be operated without 
endangering the climbers, who are determined to stay there for as long 
as possible.

Annika Dean, spokesperson for the protest organisers, Rising Tide 
Newcastle, explained the group’s motivations: “We are staging an 
emergency intervention into Australia’s number one cause of global warming.”

“Around the world, the early impacts of unabated global warming are 
beginning to emerge. 2010 has been a year of tragic weather disasters.”

“Thousands of people have died this year due to flash floods in Pakistan 
and China, and fires in Siberia. Millions of people are facing 
starvation due to a devastating drought in west Africa. These are the 
impacts of global warming that scientists have been warning us about for 
decades. Global warming is happening now, and it is killing people.”

“Australia is a major contributor to this crisis, due to the massive 
volumes of coal we export. We are  exporting global warming to the 
world. With the support of both Labor and the Coalition, Australia’s 
coal exports are booming. Here in Newcastle, already the world’s biggest 
coal port, multinational mining corporations are planning to triple 
exports over the next decade. It’s a similar story at all coal ports in 
the country.”

“Urgent action against global warming is needed. We have been forced to 
make our dramatic protest today because the Federal government is 
failing to take any action.”

“We call on Prime Minister Gillard to step up to the challenge of global 
warming, put an immediate moratorium on the expansion of the coal 
industry, and begin to replace this outdated industry with the renewable 
industries of the future,” concluded Ms Dean.


          Check here for updates and timeline as the action continues
          <http://www.risingtide.org.au/activists-shut-down-worlds-biggest-coal-port>



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