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<p><strong>5:30am, Sunday 26th September 2010:</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>“Around the world, the early impacts of unabated global warming
are beginning to emerge. 2010 has been a year of tragic weather
disasters.”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>“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the coal industry, and begin to replace this outdated industry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.</p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><a
href="http://www.risingtide.org.au/activists-shut-down-worlds-biggest-coal-port"
target="_blank">Check here for updates and timeline as the
action continues</a></h5>
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