Climate activists blockaded entrances to the Department of Energy demanding that Biden use his final days in office to cancel permits for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) plants and LNG exports before Trump takes power.
“Natural gas, my a**! Methane is a poison gas!”
One climate activist invoked “delay, deny, defend” to compare the energy industry to that of tobacco and healthcare. “It’s all the same bullshit!”
“We have every single technological, scientific, and political lever at our disposal right now to solve this crisis. What we don’t have is the political will and courageous leaders willing to get it done.”
“So if they will not save us, we will save ourselves.”
After two warnings, Homeland Security Officers ordered the blockading climate activists to stand and handcuffed them.
“Off fossil fuels, Biden, off fossil fuels!” the group continued to chant as 13 were arrested.
“Cancel LNG! Cancel LNG!”
“I’m getting arrested today because I believe that the people in suits who are laughing at us right now are the ones who should be in handcuffs!” one climate activist explained as she was taken away.
“I’m here because I care about a livable future!”
Following the 13 arrests, Climate Defiance activists circled around to the other entrance to the Department of Energy, where a similar blockade had taken place without arrests, some in rocking chairs.
Michael Greenberg declared victory: “We shut down business as usual at the Department of Energy! We disrupted an agency of over 10,000 people and you can bet that this protest got noticed as high up as the Secretary of Energy herself!”
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