Reposted from It’sgettinghotinhere
Published by Sparki, July 6th, 2012
In case you haven’t seen it yet, the North Carolina Legislature has ratified a law that makes trespass on a power generating utility property a felony.
This is how effective direct action in the climate movement is becoming.
In the spring Greenpeace organized a coal smokestack occupation of a Progress Energy facility near Asheville, NC. A couple of days later, they occupied the front of Duke Energy’s headquarters in Charlotte. Then in May, they organized a coal train blockade on tracks going into another Progress Energy Facility outside of Charlotte.
This legislation comes on the heels of the Duke-Progress merger and as Greenpeace campaigner Robert Gardner has recently said it is being passed to “further insulate Duke Energy from public protest.”
In Raleigh-Durham, Croatan Earth First! has been building a campaign against the state’s burgeoning fracking industry. It’s only a matter of time before they begin to employ direct action tactics as well. Continue reading
