“Seven people were taken into custody in Catawba County after blocking the train tracks Duke Energy and Apple use to ship coal,” Caleb Troop reports for WCNC.
“Four protesters locked themselves to the train tracks near the Marshall Steam Station in Catawba County and two others hung a sign reading ‘Save Our Mountain Clean The Cloud.’ Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and Charlotte Fire Department officials responded around 10:30 a.m. Thursday,” Troop reports. “ctivists from Greenpeace, Keepers of the Mountains Foundation, Katuah Earth First! and Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival took part in the event. The protesters branded the train cars with the Apple logo to show that the company’s Maiden data center will be powered by more coal as it expands. It took about an hour for officials to take down the sign and unlock the four protesters sitting across the tracks. The protesters will be charged with trespassing, officials said… About 50 protesters were in front of Duke Energy headquarters on Thursday morning before the company’s shareholder meeting. On Wednesday protesters scaled Bank of America Stadium to protest coal use as well.”
Troop reports, “Duke officials say they have no problem with protestors speaking and holding signs, but have a zero-tolerance policy for incidents which cause safety problems. ‘The good news is the plants have gotten cleaner and cleaner over the decades. We’ve knocked down emissions of the main pollutants by about 70 percent so far,’ said Duke Energy spokesperson Tom Williams. ‘We’re actually shutting down a lot of our older, most dirty coal plants that don’t have thick scrubbers on them.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s the new “activism.” Make a stink and then claim credit for something that’s already been announced. The second that Apple flips the switch on the largest corporate fuel cell installation in the USA at their Maiden, North Carolina data center, expect a self-congratulatory media binge from Greenpeace et al. for “causing” something that’s already been announced to “happen.”
Greenpeace et al. should read up on Darwinism. By pandering to the dupes who would fall for such utter nonsense, all you end up with is a bunch of mouth-breathers. Obviously, they’re now getting stupider at an exponential rate.
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