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Home Front: Culture Wars
Greenpeace action suggests new forest war
2004-06-17
EFL
Promising an "unprecedented" summer for forest protests against Bush administration policies, Greenpeace on Tuesday fired a first salvo by blocking an Oregon logging road with a three-ton container and three activists chained to it.
"Hey Mack, go ahead and light the backfire, but check which way the wind is blowing."
As a doc, I ask the Rantburg University Department of Engineering: what size front-end loader do I need to lift a three-ton container? Fragility of contents is not a concern.
Since you will already be operating in a logging area, we here at Rantburg U reccomend the Caterpillar 525B Skidder. With a winch rating of 49,650 lbs, you will easily pull that can of trash off the road. Plus, as the Model 525B is a wheeled skidder, it is much easier on the enviroment. Caterpiller, the number one name in activist removal.
The activists spent seven hours chained to the container — two were inside, and a third outside — before police broke their locks, according to Greenpeace spokesperson Celia Alario.
Would it be OK if we just beat on the container with an aluminum baseball bat to see whether they remebered to wear hearing protection?
I'm sure they obey the OSHA rules, doesn't everyone?
The container was set down on a southern Oregon road leading to a federal timber sale site in what Greenpeace said were "236 acres of old-growth forest." The administration’s latest policies have been framed around the idea of minimizing wildfires by additional logging of overgrown or diseased national forests and other federal lands. Greenpeace said its protest Tuesday marked the start of its campaign to declare a moratorium on commercial logging on public lands. "These beautiful, old trees are a fire hazard our national treasures and the lungs of the planet. But instead of protecting the last remaining forests, the Bush administration is attempting to destroy them," Bill Richardson, campaigns director for Greenpeace, said in the statement. "If Bush continues to ignore the public’s wishes to keep their forests healthy, it will be up to the American people to rescue our public forests from this imminent danger."
Posted by:Super Hose

#11  Doc - nature's way is frequent fires due to lightning, wildfires. By controlling the fires, but not controlling the fuel level - accordingly(i.e. no thinning) - we create an artificially hazardous environment, which results in fires that don't burn themselves out via chg in weather pattern/wind or lack of fuel.
Posted by: Frank G   2004-06-17 9:34:58 PM  

#10  Oh, no. Be prepared for a summer of sad tales of well meaning greenies falling out of trees they're sitting in to protect and killing themselves.
In the interest of good taste, try to keep the snickering to a minimum.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-06-17 9:12:20 PM  

#9  Something I've read over and over again is that these big wildfires are started because (in incidents other than Ecoterrorist-initiated, obviously) lightning strikes the forests and starts a major fire - but only because humans clear out all the little stuff that would burn quietly. From what I've heard - and I'm no ecology expert - it's actually nature's way of clearing out the debris. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Assuming this is correct, I wonder what would happen if the Bush Administration announced that they weren't going to clear the forests. Would Greenpeace protest that, too?
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-06-17 5:27:36 PM  

#8  I'm no legal beagle, but for these activities, I would say document them and show that they are a systematic effort to violate the law. Then after this paper trail is established, get an injunction with some teeth that fine Greenpeace $1000s per violation. Treat this the same way as labor unions get fined when violating a no strike order. Hitting them in their pocketbook will get their attention real quick. But people need to do their homework. Greenpeace does, this is just not someone's whim.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-06-17 5:19:16 PM  

#7  Leave them there, in fact, add chains, then spread fresh venison around 'em...

Nature, gotta love it
Posted by: Frank G   2004-06-17 5:09:55 PM  

#6  LOL RC
Posted by: Shipman   2004-06-17 4:36:19 PM  

#5  Since you will already be operating in a logging area, we here at Rantburg U reccomend the Caterpillar 525B Skidder.

Ah. Caterpillar log skidders -- reminds me of a girl I dated in college.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-06-17 10:34:49 AM  

#4  Caterpillar 525B Skidder. That'll due it,however,I suggest a D-10/with rippers.Smash the container like a beer can then drag it out of the way.Minimum disruption of the habitat is the objective after all.
Posted by: Raptor   2004-06-17 10:29:57 AM  

#3  The containers were buried in landfill before it was learned that protestors were hidden inside.
Posted by: Anonymous5246   2004-06-17 10:23:15 AM  

#2  A small tidbit of information that greenies never speak of. (Probably due to ignorance)

A tree through it's growing life uses carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Everybody knows that.

After the tree dies and lays there decomposing it uses aproximately the same amount of oxygen and produces approximately the same aount of CO2 that that it used in it's lifetime.

That's Biology.
Posted by: Michael   2004-06-17 10:22:33 AM  

#1  How did the containers get there? I mean the left considers GreenPiss supermen but I doubt they carry around three tons of steel in their backpacks.

And did they used Teamsters to haul the container? And iffin' they didn't, wouldn't the Teamsters be interesting in this work rules violation?
Posted by: badanov   2004-06-17 9:14:01 AM  

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