Activists Protest Coal Plant In New South Wales

I can’t stand these guys:

CLIMATE activists who chained themselves to a conveyor belt at a coal mine south of Sydney have been arrested.

Four members of the Climate Camp, a three day protest, locked themselves on the belt at the Dendrobium mine at Mount Kembla this morning.

Police said they arrested five people, four of whom allegedly had broken into the mine, and the fifth for helping them.

They were taken to Wollongong Police Station and will likely be charged with trespass, a police spokeswoman said.

It is believed the five were members of a three-day demonstration by a group calling themselves Climate Camp 09.

Climate Camp spokeswoman Jess Miller said the group was protesting over concerns about the mine’s impacts on the local river system.

“The expansion of polluting industries is being done recklessly and community members will not tolerate it,” Ms Miller said.

“We need less pollution and more renewable energy like solar and wind. It’s that simple.”  [AAP]

Since their protesting pollution I guess they got the memo that global warming isn’t going on any more.  What is ironic about this is that these protesters say Australia needs more wind energy yet these same type of people shut down Victoria’s wind energy project because it harmed people and the environment.

I would love to see where these activists receive power for their homes from?