Even solutions for climate crisis worry enviroment activists

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 27, 2008


Environmental activists take part in a sit-in at the North Anna Nuclear Power Station in Virginia. AP PHOTO

LOUISA, Va. — Under arrest, Paxus Calta raised two fingers to flash a peace sign. Fellow environmental activists cheered as police escorted him to the van that would take him to jail.

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He had intended to get arrested, as he had before in 12 countries on three continents.

For two hours, Calta and 19 other protesters associated with Rising Tide North America had occupied the visitor center at Dominion’s North Anna Nuclear Power Station.

Rising Tide isn’t protesting the causes of global warming as much as the solutions. It is against clean coal, nuclear power and capping carbon pollution while letting polluters buy and sell rights to pollute under the cap — the fixes under discussion.

Eric Hendrixson, safety and licensing director at the power station, looked on as the protesters sat on the floor, passed around trail mix and chanted.

"If there was a perfect solution, it would have arrived,” Hendrixson said, shaking his head.


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