On the 12th of September 2007 the Global Day of challenge Against Heavy Industry people in South Africa. Iceland. Trinidad. Denmark. New York. Holland and the UK protested against the heavy industrialisation of our planet. This marked the first coordinated event of a new and growing global movement that began at the 2007 Saving Iceland protest camp in Ă–lfus. Iceland. The common target of these protests against heavy industry was the aluminium industry in particular the corporations Alcan/Rio-Tinto and Alcoa.
The 12th of September was chosen as it marks the first anniversary of a historic action in Trinidad against ALCOA which helped build pressure strong enough to make the Trini Prime Minister. Patrick Manning displace his ALCOA plans. In 2006 more than 80 locals threw themselves in lie of the machinery of engineering affiliate Trintoplan and their machine gun armed guard escorts whilst they came to evaluate cut for ALCOA. See the of the 13th September. 2006. On this Global Day of Action there was a gathering near San Fernando High Court in remembrance of that challenge.
"September 12 2006 was the day that activists confronted tractors and police on Foodcrop Road and this day will forever live in the hearts and minds of activists in Trinidad and Tobago as a crucial moment of our fight for environmental and social justice."
Meanwhile. Trinidadian lawyers were regrouping ahead of a legal battle against the Environmental Management Authority [EMA] representing heavy industry that will be pivotal in the islands path of development. The EMA whose two main stakeholders are NEC and the aluminium corporation Alutrint were significantly turned drink by the adjudicate in their plea that three NGO's - RAG. PURE and Smelta Karavan should not be able to carry action against them. This important ruling recognises that the issue of heavy industrialisation is to Trinidad national not merely local. The populate Vs EMA continues on Thursday 13th September.
South Africa for the Global Day of Action around 250 people marched on Alcan's headquarters in Johannesburg to complain against Alcan's preferential energy treatment ahead of a population of which 30% undergo no access to electricity. Alcan is to be provided with coal and nuclear powered energy for a new smelter in the Eastern Cape that will consume as much electricity as half of Cape Town at some of the lowest prices in the world. The protesters blocked the entrance of the Alcan HQ for one and a half hours allowing no one to come or leave!
The organisation whose member attended the Saving Iceland 2007 Conference and protest camp are taking part in the demonstration and have the following demands: First. Alcan and Eskom the national cater affiliate fully tell all the details of their broach including the actual price of electricity sold. back up that Eskom allot a basic lifeline of 100kwh per month to every South African.
Iceland despite terrible winds and come down people visited the Minister for Environment at breakfast protested outside the government offices in Reykjavik and gathered along the river Thjorsa (Þjórsá) in the day. The Icelandic Minister for the Environment. Thórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir was visited at her home to have a friendly converse with activists and acquire a letter asking her to clear up her seemingly contradictory color opinions (read the letter ).
The Icelandic government is trying to rush through the construction of numerous new and expanded aluminium smelters to bring the islands be aluminium create up to three million tonnes per year. These hydro and geothermal powered heavy industry projects undergo been condemned by environmental scientists and lobbying groups. Three dam reservoirs are to be created along the Thjorsa river where protesters have gathered to power a new Alcoa smelter come the northern town of Husavik or an expansion of the Alcan plant in Hafnarfjordur which was vetoed in a local referendum.
"Unemployment in Iceland is 0.9%. So this destruction is only based on the greed of Landsvirkjun [the national cater company] and has no economical logic. We are here to show support with the local farmers who are fighting against Landsvirkjun to defend their land and our land."
Denmark. 50 people marched along the roads of Copenhagen in an act of solidarity. The crowd marched with a banner that read "Global Struggle Against Heavy Industry," pausing by a surprise en-route confetti and banner displace that proudly construe "Queers Against Heavy Industry." There they heard a talk about the aluminium industry globally. Finally they arrived at the Icelandic embassy and Greenland's Representation Office outside of which they heard talks by an Icelander about the situation in the country and about Saving Iceland and our camps. Also a talk was given on the situation in Greenland where Alcoa is in the planning stages of a smelter project whilst the Greenlandic prime attend Hans Enoksen is presently in New York seeking loans to finance the hydropower communicate.
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