{"id":352363,"date":"2024-11-26T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=352363"},"modified":"2024-11-26T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:24:13","slug":"rising-tide-demonstrates-even-climate-protestors-need-fossil-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=352363","title":{"rendered":"Rising Tide Demonstrates Even Climate Protestors Need Fossil Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Opponents of oil trains and barges that service the Port of Albany paddle along the Hudson River on Friday in Albany, N.Y. The demonstration was part of the Break Free from Fossil Fuels movement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week Rising tide<\/a> provided an impressive showcase for plastic fossil fuel products during their climate protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arrests made as Rising Tide climate change protesters take to Newcastle Harbour over coal exports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Romy Stephens<\/a> and Bridget Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activism group Rising Tide says multiple people have been arrested at an anti-fossil fuels demonstration in Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands have attended the multi-day protest, where Midnight Oil front man Peter Garrett delivered a speech and performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration is expected to continue until Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several people have been arrested at a climate protest in Newcastle that involved hundreds of activists taking to the city\u2019s harbour in canoes and kayaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration, organised by activism group Rising Tide, was advertised as a \u201cblockade\u201d of the world\u2019s largest coal port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Rising Tide statement said multiple people were arrested on Saturday afternoon, most of whom were released without charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-11-23\/police-arrests-climate-change-protest-rising-tide-newcastle\/104620058<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you look closely at the picture above, you would struggle to find one thing which is not made of plastic, other than the ship carrying the coal. Their life jackets are plastic, their oars are made of plastic, their kayaks are made of plastic, their T-shirts are mostly plastic, and if we could see them, we would likely discover whatever they were wearing on their feet is likely made of plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all the petroleum products carried by and being used by the protestors were to suddenly disappear, they would all find themselves naked and swimming in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China makes extensive use of coal in plastics synthesis. Mainland China has lots of coal but very little oil or gas, so their petrochemical industry is increasingly geared to use coal as its base plastic synthesis hydrocarbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Coal to White Trash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 13, 2020 By Richard Liu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coal has long been China\u2019s \u201cblack gold,\u201d supplying<\/a> over half of the nation\u2019s electricity. Yet as coal\u2019s energy share decreases due to domestic action to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, a new coal industry is emerging. In China\u2019s arid northwest, eight plants are pulverizing coal chunks and \u201ccooking\u201d coal powder into something more valuable than power\u2014or maybe even gold. These coal conversion plants, soon numbering over 20<\/a>, churn out chemicals to produce plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In China\u2019s Thirteenth Five-Year Energy Development Plan, central policymakers set a target<\/a> to decrease coal\u2019s share in China\u2019s energy mix. Reducing coal power puts China on track to meet its 2015 Paris Agreement commitment to peak emissions by 2030<\/a>. But China\u2019s investments in coal conversion now threaten to increase coal consumption. The risk of China deepening its coal dependency intensified at the 2019 United Nations Climate Summit, when China\u2019s State Councilor Wang Yi made no new commitments to cut coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s love affair with CTO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most plastics are produced from natural gas or crude oil, Chinese plants are converting coal into chemicals used to produce plastics through direct coal-to-olefins (CTO) or the multistep coal-to-methanol (from coal) and then methanol-to-olefins. China is the only country to implement CTO at scale<\/a>. From 2011 to 2015, China\u2019s CTO capacity grew<\/a> from 1 million tons annually (MTA) to 7.2 MTA, equivalent to 20 percent of China\u2019s plastic feedstock capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While methanol-to-olefins has become unviable<\/a> in recent years due to uncompetitive methanol pricing, the profitability of CTO draws investment. According to Tian Yajun, a coal conversion expert from the National Institute of Clean and Low Carbon Energy<\/a>, \u201cCTO companies profit from high oil prices. In recent years, CTO has the best return out of all coal conversion industries because demand is high and the central government doesn\u2019t control olefins or plastic prices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.newsecuritybeat.org\/2020\/02\/black-coal-white-trash\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Kayaks today are made from polyethylene resins<\/a> \u2013 a direct product of China\u2019s growing coal to plastic chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find it difficult to see this ridiculous plastic Rising Tide \u201cclimate protest\u201d as a legitimate protest. I see it more as an unconscious cry for help from young adults who were failed by their teachers and the Aussie education system. If they had the faintest clue about science or the machine age products they take for granted, they wouldn\u2019t be out there making such fools of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to the coal which is exported from Newcastle? You are wearing it and sitting on it, Rising Tide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update (EW): purecolorartist<\/a> points out I neglected to mention which Newcastle. The protest was in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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