Over the weekend, extreme greenies — part of the BreakFreePNW group — camped out on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train track near Anacortes in an attempt to stop shipments leading to the nearby Shell and Tesoro oil refineries. The protest ended in the arrest of 52 people, who were cited for trespassing. One protestor was also cited for resisting arrest.
Despite the arrests, protest organizers declared success.
Only, it wasn’t really a success.
The protest proved to be a mere minor inconvenience for the two oil refineries. Once Shell and Tesoro heard about the protests, they simply rescheduled the shipments.
Some protesters claim that it was a victory in that they managed to “inspire people to speak out about climate change.”
But, that’s not true either.
You see, not only did the BreakFreePNW protesters trespass when they descended on the train tracks, they made a huge mess and did not clean up after themselves.
Here’s a photo of the mess one Facebook user shared to KIRO 7 News:
The extreme greenies, supposedly so concerned with the environment, left heaps of trash everywhere — the Anacortes Police Department confirmed BreakFreePNW protesters left the mess. Some have tried to make excuses for the mess, claiming the police arrests may not have given them time to clean up after themselves.
Unfortunately for BreakFreePNW’s public image, that’s not the case. Anacortes police gave them ample time to gather their belonging and clean up before arresting them.
This isn’t the first time extreme greenies did not clean up the mess they made while protesting. Via MyNorthwest.com:
“In May of 2015, activists – or kayaktivists – protesting Shell oil and the impacts drilling has on the environment left behind material used to anchor their protest barge in a popular Seattle dive park. ‘The People’s Platform,’ which was parked over the dive park near Seacrest Park, was moved. However, divers later found cement blocks, cables, and chains strewn about the popular spot that octopuses frequent.”
What great examples of environmental stewardship — perhaps would-be “green” philosophers like Kathleen Dean Moore should hold off on celebrating the efforts of the greenies. By every indication, extreme greenies came “by land and by sea, by bicycle and indigenous canoe” to “gather near the Tesoro and Shell refineries”… and deposit piles and piles of their trash.
They did take the most disgusting trash with them when they left.
Themselves.
I’ll take them more seriously when they ditch the oil based kayaks and quit driving fossil fueled cars so they can get on TV for their 15 minutes of “fame” that I care nothing about. The TV crews should stay away and not broadcast this joke of a protest.
Exactly. Protesting oil companies in plastic kayaks exposes their level of common sense. They would at least not be laughed at if they used wood boats or kayaks with wood paddles, while wearing exclusively cotton/wool/hemp clothing (zero percent petroleum based materials) and shoes with no petroleum based products. If they toned down their hypocrisy, I’d at least respect them for walking their talk.
As for not cleaning up their mess,, they exemplify what was written on the sandwich board some fuzzy headed socialist was wearing at an Occupy protest: “Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.” It’s the entitlement mentality of expecting someone else to clean up the mess (the litter) they themselves created.
You forgot the pictures of them all trudging along the tracks holding their made-in-China iCrap up to their empty little heads that was manufactured with plastics (oil) and rare earth materials (mining).
Like the good, little, liberal, secular-progressives they are, they’ve demonstrated the typical leftist hypocrisy… again, proving once again that they are liars and slobs.
And when you try to talk facts with them, it falls on deaf ears. They want change, but what is their solution? They keep saying hemp, solar, wind…. but they never mention a thing about the cost. Okay, you want change, bring realistic cost-effective solutions to the table. Without funding from the government (other than oil subsidies, which is about 77 mil) or from the gas and oil companies (they are not in the hemp, solar or wind business). Not one of them can do it. I even had one joke tell me it’s the government’s responsibility, even if it caused taxes to be raised. Laughable, you know this idiot didn’t pay taxes, he just collects on others paying taxes. This is mostly a group of entitlist, whining children who aren’t getting their way. I’ve even had someone compare their protest to the civil rights protests in the 60s. Seriously? Not that I’m condoning violence, but if I was face to face with him, I’d have knocked his ass out. Makes me embarrassed as a white man for someone else to compare this to REAL suffering.
The need to group up. Anacortes, Skagit County and Island County (apparently they left the camp grounds they were at in Deception Pass trashed) need to send they “leaders” the bills for someone else to do their clean up work.
I have a feeling these “protesters” were paid to be there. I don’t think they care one way or the other about being green. Somebody came up to them and said “Do you want to make some money?” If they didn’t get paid they wouldn’t have shown up. Look for them at the next media circus protest.
reported to be about 2300lbs of waste. And the only excuse is, well we can’t pick up if we got arrested. Funny thing is, they knew they were going to be arrested, they knew that had the massive pile of rubbish. They had ample warning and could have left with their trash.
Liberal progressive greens are hypocrits. Their mantra “Do as I I say not as I do”