Are there no adults associated with Greenpeace at all? South Africans suffer chronic power shortages so Greenpeace feels the need to try to make their situation worse, all for a photo op stunt. Something you might call Environmental Injustice
Greenpeace protests South African coal-fired power station; police arrest 9 – JOHANNESBURG — Authorities arrested nine people at a South African coal-fired power station Monday after Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a gate and some climbed a crane to protest dependence on coal just weeks before the country hosts a global conference on climate change.
The protest began at dawn at the Kusile power station, and police went up after demonstrators had climbed the crane. Six people were arrested after they were persuaded to come down peacefully and safely, said police spokesman Leonard Hlathi.
Greenpeace spokeswoman Fiona Musana said a total of nine protesters, including some on the ground inside the site, were arrested and freed late Monday on bail of 500 rand (about $60) each. They were ordered to return to court Nov. 21 on charges of trespassing and malicious damage to property.
Melita Steele, a Greenpeace climate change expert, said earlier that security guards cut the chain demonstrators had used to bind themselves to the gate.
Eskom, the state-owned power company, says it needs the Kusile plant because of rising electricity demand. It is expected to be completed in 2016. Another coal plant, called Medupi, is scheduled for completion in 2015. Eskom also has renewable projects planned. (Associated Press)
It may be morbid, but I would like it if for once these protestors would succeed, shut down a power plant, and then be arrested for murder because the power disruption killed some old bloke in an iron lung.
I hope it happens in America too, because the sabotage itself would be a premeditated felony with a reasonable expectation of death (ie: murder in the 1st degree with special circumstances), and then the tree-hugging protestors would find themselves at risk of death row.
They deserve the needle too, for all the people they have needlessly allowed to die due to their interference with proper care and development.
I would just electrify the gates to the power station and the crane – that should give Greenpeace a lift!