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Access blockade actions
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Clean our Cloud (campaign title)
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iCloud Train Blockade in North Carolina
Greenpeace 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.
Unique identifier:
GP04B15
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
03/05/2012
Locations:
North America
,
North Carolina
,
Terrell
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
2m19s
Audio format:
Natural
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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iCloud Train Blockade in North Carolina
Greenpeace 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.
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