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Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« on: May 15, 2016, 02:32:03 am »


SEATTLE (AP) — Dozens of climate activists have blocked railroad tracks leading to two oil refineries in northwest Washington state to oppose the flow of oil from trains to those facilities.

About 150 people spent the night in tents pitched on the railroad tracks near Anacortes, about 70 miles north of Seattle. Many of them were feeling jubilant Saturday morning as they prepared for a second day of demonstrations targeting the nearby Shell and Tesoro oil refineries.

Dozens more are expected to join the protesters who have formed a barricade on the tracks, said Ahmed Gaya, a spokesman with the Break Free Pacific Northwest who also spent the night on the tracks.

"The plan is to hold this space," he said. "People in the Northwest and around the world are prepared to build these movements (of mass disobedience) and keep fossil fuels in the ground."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/oil-protestors-washington-refineries
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Re: Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2016, 02:34:03 am »
Run over the morons.
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Re: Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2016, 02:39:41 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on May 15, 2016, 02:32:03 am

SEATTLE (AP) — Dozens of climate activists have blocked railroad tracks leading to two oil refineries in northwest Washington state to oppose the flow of oil from trains to those facilities.

About 150 people spent the night in tents pitched on the railroad tracks near Anacortes, about 70 miles north of Seattle. Many of them were feeling jubilant Saturday morning as they prepared for a second day of demonstrations targeting the nearby Shell and Tesoro oil refineries.

Dozens more are expected to join the protesters who have formed a barricade on the tracks, said Ahmed Gaya, a spokesman with the Break Free Pacific Northwest who also spent the night on the tracks.

"The plan is to hold this space," he said. "People in the Northwest and around the world are prepared to build these movements (of mass disobedience) and keep fossil fuels in the ground."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/oil-protestors-washington-refineries

Lots of laws being broken. Bet these enviro-wackos are even trashing out the area too.
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Re: Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2016, 06:52:18 am »
The Enviroweenies opposed and killed a coal terminal in Oregon for Montana coal, so I'm not to surprised by this. The war on fossil fuels is taking on a regional bias. The folks on the coasts are all ready paying more for energy than those in the interior states. I know its mostly due to taxes, but I'm wondering if there is an economically viable way, outside of government regulation and anti-trust collusion, to make the cost of energy so prohibitive in the coastal states to influence some to come to their senses?
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Re: Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2016, 02:30:04 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on May 15, 2016, 02:32:03 am

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About 150 people spent the night in tents


Probably nylon tents.  Nylon is a petroleum product.

Probably arrived in cars powered by petroleum products.

Probably eating food produced using petroleum products.

Probably wearing clothes produced using petroleum products.

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Re: Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2016, 04:07:42 pm »
Quote from: Cowboyway on May 15, 2016, 02:30:04 pm
Probably nylon tents.  Nylon is a petroleum product.

Probably arrived in cars powered by petroleum products.

Probably eating food produced using petroleum products.

Probably wearing clothes produced using petroleum products.

That's what's so funny about latte sipping suburbanite enviros - if they had to really live Amish without all the modern conveniences they'd be dead within a month.
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Re: Anti-Oil Protesters Block Train Tracks To Two Washington Refineries
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2016, 04:14:48 pm »
Where is the speeding gay engineer when you need him?
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