UPDATE: Check out this video from the Hay Point action
I got forwarded this tonight from some of my friends down under. Daring, bold and inspiring Australian Greenpeace direct actionistas have shut down one of the largest coal export terminals in the world with lockdowns and a climb team on the Queensland coast.
Early in the morning, they entered the facility. The climbers scaled a 50 metre coal loading machine and have been there over 24 hours dangling like fruit bats. The lockdown team was cut out.
Over 54,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions have been saved and coal ships are backed up waiting for the facility to be cleared.
Further north in Cairns, Kevin Rudd is meeting with Pacific Islander leaders discussing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Those most severely affected by climate change are demanding that Rudd act with daring and bold policy to stem the worst effects of climate change.
Even though the Hay Point coal export terminal is already one of the biggest in the world, it is now being expanded from 112 to 190 million tonnes per 
year.
Bravo. I’m really impressed with Greenpeace stepping up the intensity and frequency of their actions this summer. Mt. Rushmore, the G8 coal plants, and more.
Its time to start acting like global warming needs to be stopped now! and not in a few years or when the senate gets around to it or when its ‘politically feasible’.
We can all take a lesson out of this book and take action to the next level.
Greenpeace Australia has been doing actions like this for long time, not just this summer. Same for Rising Tide Australia. Hopefully U.S. groups will follow their lead.
It’s good to see some activists taking strong solidarity actions!
I’m getting sick of all the silly “actions” that US based climate activists take in the name of climate justice and democracy. Sometimes it really looks like a farce. Folks – climate change and extractive industries is serious, and if you don’t act that way – which most of you aren’t – no one will take you seriously. Beyond the liberal blogosphere and twitterlands, no one is taking the youth climate movement seriously, and frankly I’m not surprised.
We could do a lot better, and this is a great example!
Thank you for speaking truth to power; putting yourselves on the line for all of us.
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