Environmental activists target Montreal airport for third straight day

[Malcolm]

A passenger checks departure times at Trudeau International Airport Friday, July 19, 2024 in Montreal. Environmental activists have disrupted operations at Montreal's Trudeau airport for a third consecutive day in protest of Canadian fossil fuel policy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz© The Canadian Press

MONTREAL — Environmental activists have caused disruptions outside Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport for a third consecutive day in protest of Canadian fossil fuel policy.

Activist group Last Generation Canada says three of its members glued their hands to the road today, blocking access to the arrivals area.

 

Shortly before 2 p.m., the group issued a news release saying it is demanding that Ottawa stop the extraction and consumption of oil, gas and coal by 2030.

Airport authorities confirmed on X, formerly Twitter, that the incident was causing delays in accessing the terminal and added that steps were being taken to “remedy the situation.”

On Thursday, protesters with the same group spay-painted exterior windows at the airport, resulting in police arresting two protesters for mischief.

On Wednesday, police made three arrests after protesters with signs saying “oil kills” glued their hands on the ramp leading to the departures area.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 26, 2024.

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[Malcolm]

and elsewhere

 

Climate protesters shut down Frankfurt Airport, disrupt EU travel

Frankfurt Airport KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images© Provided by Salon

Climate protesters disrupted flights all across Europe on Thursday after they breached security fences at Frankfurt Airport, Germany's busiest hub for international travel. Airport security joined police and firefighters in removing the protesters, but not before at least 140 flights were canceled, with more cancellations expected to follow.

“We sharply condemn these unauthorized demonstrations, and we reserve the right to take legal action against the participants,” Frankfurt Airport said in a statement. “Their activities pose severe danger to flight operations — possibly putting human life at risk.”

A climate group known as Last Generation organized the demonstration, the second in as many days to disrupt a German airport. Five protesters glued themselves to a taxiway at Cologne-Bonn Airport on Wednesday, forcing a roughly three-hour delay in flights. Climate activists staged similar demonstrations at other locations throughout Europe, including in Finland, Norway, Switzerland and Spain. Last Generation and its supporters are calling on governments to ban the extraction and burning of all fossil fuels by 2030 — at this point, a virtually impossible goal.

The Last Generation protests come on the heels of record-breaking temperatures fueled by climate change. In the 2023, Earth set a new global surface temperature record, a new record for the hottest summer temperature and a new record for ocean heat content. Overall 2023 was the warmest year ever recorded since humans began keeping temperature records, and the early months of 2024 have followed suit. Indeed, the planet experienced its two hottest days ever recorded, last Sunday and Monday.

 

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In a statement to the Associated Press, Christiana Figueres, the former head of U.N. climate negotiations, warned that humanity will "scorch and fry” if government and business leaders do not implement "targeted national policies" to sharply reduce fossil fuel extraction and emissions.

[Falken]

RE: The Montreal protesters - do what they did in Germany - cut a large circle of asphalt around their hands  and let them go with their own piece  of highway!

[GreatSlave]

How about leave them glued to the pavement for 24hrs, so that they can adequately make their point? Keep them safe, provide them with food and water...but no bathroom.

[Seeker]

53 minutes ago, GreatSlave said:

How about leave them glued to the pavement for 24hrs, so that they can adequately make their point? Keep them safe, provide them with food and water...but no bathroom.

24 hours?  You're way more generous than I am.  I'd put out some traffic cones and post a security guard to direct traffic and just leave them there indefinitely.  After a few days, when they are pleading for help, I'd present them with the bill for the costs of the disruption - no assistance until the bill was paid.  When the bill was paid I'd cut the two foot circle of asphalt around their hand (cost of which would be included in the bill) and let them go on their way.  I bet the protests would stop.

[GreatSlave]

Globally, protesters have been emboldened by a weak kneed lack of absolutely any consequence for their actions. Freedom of speech is morphing into sort of an often times physically destructive, Youtube ready, upper middle class faux-anarchy.

 

Edited July 27 by GreatSlave

[conehead]

It doesn't help that one of our Cabinet Ministers has a history of taking part in this type of protest.

"On four occasions, Guilbeault made headlines for Greenpeace, such as when he scaled Toronto's CN Tower in 2001, accompanied by British activist Chris Holden. At the time the tower was the tallest in the world. After ascending to a height of 340 metres, they unfurled a banner that read: "Canada and Bush Climate Killers."[12] Guilbeault and Holden were arrested and charged with mischief.[13] The goal was to grab the world's attention a week before the UN's sixth conference on climate change, where the fate of the Kyoto Protocol would be decided. The stunt cost the CN Tower Corporation an estimated $50,000, and Guilbeault was sentenced to one year's probation and the court ordered him to pay a portion of costs."