ABC reported that Rising Tide, a group fighting the causes of climate change plans to block Newcastle Harbour again next year after staging what it describes as a successful protest at the weekend.
A convoy of 60 kayaks, rafts and boats formed a blockade across the entrance to the harbor to stop coal ships entering or leaving.
Newcastle Port Corporation said that the 6 hour protest did not interrupt ship movements, with several ships loaded during the day. But Ms Naomi Hodgson spokeswoman of Rising Tide insists the protest did have an impact.
She said that "Usually the shipping movements are publicly available online and the only time they ever take it down is when we're holding one of these protests and sure enough five days ago they took the schedule down. This is on the entire planet. Usually there's ships going in and out at maximum capacity and there was not a single movement in this port."
(Sourced from http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2010/04/03/MTM5NjE1/Climate_change_protest_targets_coal_ships.html)
Friday, April 2, 2010
Climate change protest targets coal ships
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