Posted on 12/17/2019 3:37:36 AM PST by grundle
Protesters flagged down the coal train to stop it and then occupied the tracks in Massachusetts early Sunday. (Courtesy of 350 New Hampshire Action)
More than 20 protesters were arrested Sunday trying to block a train from delivering coal to Merrimack Station power plant in Bow.
The climate activists who organized the blockades also marched on the plant at a demonstration in September, when dozens more were arrested.
Lila Kohrman-Glaser is an organizer with one of the protest groups, 350 New Hampshire Action. She says they want to end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels in the region.
"It is crucial that the actions that we take not be one-off actions,” she says. “They are part of a campaign, and we will continue until the power plant is taken offline once and for all."
She and about 100 others joined the protest Sunday, delaying the train at three different points along its route – in Worcester and Ayer, Massachusetts, and in Hooksett.
About two dozen people were arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges.
Two who climbed a railway bridge in Hooksett and were removed by police are also charged with resisting arrest.
Kohrman-Glaser says their goal is to speed the region's transition to renewable energy.
"We have decided that we're not going to allow business as usual to proceed at the plant,” she says. “That means that we're not going to allow coal trains to arrive to Bow unhindered, and it means that we are going to do everything in our power to make sure that the plant cannot run."
Merrimack Station is New England's largest remaining coal-fired power plant that doesn't have a retirement date. It typically runs most when energy demand is at its peak.
isn’t it like 20 degrees or something over there? Trust fund baby idiots.
Well, they’re not in a designated crosswalk, so...
Did they stop it?
And we can all freeze to death in the dark.
If we’re killing the planet why
aren’t they ditching their
cell phones and cars? Coal
produces the electricity to
power devices, heat homes...
Speaking of NH at one point
a lib there named Deb “Arnie”
Arnesen nicknamed SUVs “FUVs”
for their waste of resources and
pollution.Her show was cancelled.
One of her major sponsors, a car
dealer, was not pleased.
Planet warming? We could use some
warming up here! I recall an anti
global warming march in Amherst MA..
during a March snowstorm
I’m betting these dolts drove to where they blocked the train.
If I was the train engineer, I’d just lay on the horn until their eardrums fell out, while inching forward at 0.5 mph...
Trespassing? In New Hampshire in the winter it should be attempted murder.
As of right now, 27 with a few inches of snow predicted today.
It’s been quite cold since mid November and we already had a good snow storm, some is still on the ground. Clearly President Trump has solved global warming.
It takes a few football fields for a train to actually stop. A great defence
Biting the hand that feeds usually isn’t a bright idea.
Looks like they could use some global warming there.
I see that the Governor is a Republican. If he was a Dem, I was wishing for him to give in to the protesters’ demands.
And the light was green.
If we were totally reliable on “renewables”, yesterday would have been a cold dark day for everyone here in the Midwest
The 145 five-hundred-foot tall Monuments to Gaia were sitting near motionless, and the solar panel fields were covered in 5 inches of global warming
We’d have been burning politicians for heat
Hmmm, I wonder if any of these protestors live in a nice big house with air conditioning....
Just curious.
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