Your browser does not support this video. Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/iCloud-Train-Blockade-in-North-Carolina-27MZIFVA3R8Z.htmlConceptually similarApple: Help Us Save Our MountainsGP04B1MCompleted★★★★★★Clean Our Cloud Clipreel - Long VersionGP04AXPCompleted★★★★★★★Clean Our Cloud Clipreel - Short VersionGP04AXQCompleted★★★★Bringing Your Messages to Apple HQ GP04B20Completed★★★★★★Solarize CharlotteGP0STORS3Completed★★★★Introducing iCloud GP04B2ACompleted★★★★Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill in North CarolinaGP0STO7HUCompleted★★★★Clean Our Cloud Action in San FranciscoGP04AYRCompleted★★★★Clean Our Cloud Action in New York CityGP04B0UCompleted★★★★View AllGP04B15iCloud Train Blockade in North CarolinaGreenpeace and anti-mountaintop removal groups joined forces today, blocking a coal train en route to a power plant in the US and branding the cars with the iconic Apple logo. Four activists locked themselves to the rails. Others applied the Apple logo directly to train cars in an effort to publicly connect the energy powering Apple?s data center in Maiden, NC to Duke Energy?s coal-fired Marshall Steam Station.Locations:North America-North Carolina-Terrell-United States of AmericaDate:3 May, 2012Credit:© GreenpeaceDuration:2m19sAudio format:NaturalProduction Type :NEWS ACCESSKeywords:Access blockade actions-Actions and protests-Activists-Apple Inc.-Arm Bars-Banners-Chimneys-Clean our Cloud (campaign title)-Climate (campaign title)-Climbing equipment-Coal-Coal-fired power stations-Cool IT (campaign title)-Data centres-Duke Energy-Greenpeace activists-Greenpeace campaigners-Hard hats-KWCI (GPI)-Logos-Mountaintop removal mining-Non-renewable energy-Police-Railways-Technology-TrainsShoot:iCloud Train Blockade in North CarolinaGreenpeace joins activists from communities impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining to block and "rebrand" a coal train with Apple logos. The coal train is en route to the Marshall Steam Station, a Duke Energy coal-fired power plant. Only 19 miles from Apple's Maiden, N.C., data center, currently under construction, the electricity created by burning mountaintop removal mined coal will be part of the Duke Energy fleet that will power the data center. The Marshall plant burns coal from mountaintop removal, a destructive practice whereby the tops of mountains are blown off to retrieve coal with the debris scraped into adjacent valleys. Air pollution from the Marshall plant causes more than one hundred deaths a year and thousands of asthma attacks. Apple should be more transparent about its coal problem, and take steps to start solving it, as are other tech companies who are taking steps to power their electronic data centers substantially with renewable energy.Related Collections:"How Clean is Your Cloud?" Report (Photo & Videos)iCloud Train Blockade in North Carolina (Photo & Video)