BREAKING: Oil train opponents blockade tracks in Oregon! Climate justice activists, local Clatskanie farmers, and oil train opponents from all over Columbia County are blockading the tracks that lead to Port Westward on the Columbia River. The blockade consists of a 20-foot-high tripod of steel poles, its apex occupied by 27-year-old Portland Rising Tide activist Sunny Glover. Any train movement would risk her life, as would any attempt to remove her from the structure. A banner suspended from the tripod reads: “Oil trains fuel climate chaos.” She has vowed to stay as long as she is able. Fossil fuels are catastrophically destructive,” Glover said. “Extraction ravages land, water, and the health of local communities - transport results in deadly explosions, toxic spills and dust - and as they are burned, the Earth is forced ever deeper into immense climate instability. Fossil fuel production is violence, and on an incredibly vast scale.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:42:22 +0000
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