Photos would be awesome if you've got any!

ka pai! thinking of you all

Good on you all for making the effort. Someone has to speak out for the health of the planet and its occupiers. Its a brave person who risks his/her future for this noble cause, especially when he/she may never see the results of their labour. Good on ya! Go Curly ! Go Nomis
Much love and lots of hugs, e.

What an amazing gesture, that of offering water to the locked on protestors risking arrest and then consequently being arrested. Good on ya Anna-Claire!
Love and hugs, e.

wicked action!
you guys rock!

stupid fucking fuckers, sure i agree there should be no more coal mines but doing what you did today is just plain fucken stupid, great held up coal from being unloaded for 3 hours so what? emergency services had to be used what a watse of their time, what if there was a major emergency? almost like a 111 prank for fuck sakes

Well done you idiots! If anyone was sitting on the fence on who to support ( solid energy or SHVC) you have just pushed them over to the SE side after watching last nights news! You looked stupid, unprofessional, and simply a bunch of no hopers trying to stop anything you can, using any stupid irresponsible tactic’s.
It is obvious that the SHVC has lost direction resorting to terrorist tactic’s to disrupt the lives of NZrs and their s!
SHVC have been protesting against SE for the last 18 months or so and ………. SE are still mining coal , still planning to mine Cypress/ happy valley (lol and did SHVC not realize that SE were not planning to Mine Cypress for another few years when they took up camp in there- read their report, or maybe you cant read ) still mining coal of the ridgeline where the snails are, and still winning all the court cases SHVC throw at them. It must be hard for them to get up in the morning knowing that they are losers
If SHVC want to stop coal mining there are better ways to go about it, and very soon the people of NZ will be sick and tired of them wasting their taxes.

Thanks for the anonymous incoherent ramble. Nice grammatical errors, too. Campaigning can be an unrewarding task at times, so it's good to be reminded how stupid the anti-protest camp is!

Cheers

Sam Buchanan

"what if there was a major emergency?"

Emergency services would have prioritised as they always do, they would have just moved on to the most important emergency and left the protestors and the train will they were done elsewhere.

Good shit! Don't be frighten to do it again and again and again and...

Good effort!

I agree that this was a waste of time for emergency services, though. Next time the police should go on with their other work and refuse to turn up.

Likewise the fire service - no lives were in danger, it isn't the fire service's job to ensure coal trains can keep moving, so why are my tax dollars being wasted by irresponsible bureaucrats who send emergency services to non-emergency situations?

-Sam Buchanan

It's a pity this doesn't happen more often. Keep it up!

OK if coal is so shit we should go nuclear? No you fuckers keep whinging whenever someone even mentions the word nuke...So should we go with other carbon friendly energy creation like wind turbines, under sea tidal turbines etc? No the fucking god awful RMA keeps on vetoing these too! Wait a sec who is it that wants to entrench the RMA rather than scrap it? Thats right its you fucking cunt greenies isnt it!! No matter which way you turn you people offer only problems while sabotaging any real solutions. Get a fucking life

Actually most wind turbines can't go ahead because of a lack of govt support and locals being unhappy with the sound and sight of the turbines, which is fair enough but we need a to find a way to solve that, which has been done in Germany already and we're getting there here.

Wave power has not reached here either because again a lack of govt support.

I agree the RMA is screwed - they basically never turn down proposals or check up on people (especially big companies!) that break their agreements for environmental protection eg. Solid Energy. I wish people could protect the environment and consult with their communities without needing legal pressure to do so... perhaps then the RMA could be scrapped.

And nuclear energy... come on mate. Would you have that in your backyard?

Really the best solution is to do like many West Coasters and people in rural areas and NOT WASTE ENERGY like it's some kind of limitless resource. Us folks in the cities need to sort our shit out and we and the govt need to stand up to the oil lobby and build a renewable energy infrastructure for Aotearoa.

one photo here
www.stuff.co.nz/4042557a11.html

Good effort.

As for the emercgency services, if the police don't like it they don't have to turn up.

And why are my tax dollars being spent on having the fire service cut protestors off tracks? Their job is dealing with fires and car accidents and that sort of thing. There were no lives threatened at this protest. Find the bureacrat that wasted their time dealing with this situation and sack them.

- Sam Buchanan

Congrats SHV. Nice work. love jo

if you didnt want to waste your taxes maybe you should protest about alcohol and the bad sides, the fire service spends more time at pointless incidents like drunk drivers wrapped around a fucken pole.
maybe they should of just left the people on the tracks and then they would of transferd all the coal onto trucks and that would create more exhaust fumes and use more fuel than one coal train, not to mention destroying roads where our tax money also goes. don't forget rail is enviromentally better so why fuck it up?
right i really dont want this coal mine at happy valley go ahead but seeing what happened yesterday really fucks me off. i'll leave it at that.

Because someone other than you got some attention?

Well what about the protest was it that "Really fucked you off"- not much well thought out info in your post

and why does nearly everyone not put their names to their comments- esp those people who write dumb/offensive posts

dan rae

'[Kevin Ramshaw from OnTrack] said the railway lines belonged to the nation and should not be targeted by activists. "It's disappointing that people should use them for a protest furthering a cause."'

Cripes! Happy Valley belongs to 'the nation' and shouldn't be targeted by Solid Energy. What's more disappointing, activists using public assets to protest injustice or executives using them to make money?

What a gripper.

Strypey

Good on all those supporting this protest. And thanks Sam for responding to general ignorace on the comments page. If compalints are going to be made, why can't they be made in a progressive way. Calling somone a 'fuckin idiot' will do little to enhance your argument or this websites reputation as a reputable news source. And i agree with the guy above - names should be written at the bottom of each comment and this would decrease general ranting surely.

You seem to convenently label anything that you disagree with as a 'rant' or 'ignorance'. The use of expletive doesnt necessarily equate with an inert argument.
"fuckin idiot" lol

It was supposed to be the "end of the line " for 245-T but kiwis got around it and still do.
I doubt it is the end of anything but more noise from losers

signed - Some Cop Plant.

SHVC are pulling off a kick ass campaign. direct action rather than just a load of talk.

creative.
challenging.
effective.
inspiring.

you guys are the bomb.

not everyone will agree with what you stand for, or your tactics, but your commitment and bravery are unquestionable.

Duncan.

Bravery?! Explain.

Well I'm not Duncan but I assume he was referring to the fact that people were willing to stand up for what they believe in. Locking yourself to a train line and waiting to be arressted for your cause would take an amount of courage wouldn't you say? I'm not sure because I've never done it... not brave enough...

GOOD WORK SHVC!

H

exactly.

you can see by looking at the eyes of the brothers in the photos that getting locked to the track to stop a coal laden train is not exactly in their comfort zones! it certainly wouldn't be in mine. ;-) ..a very intense situation...

what they did was incredibly brave.

Duncan

Bullshit!! All you have to do is sit there and wait for your 15 seconds of fame to come to you. The arrest means nothing to someone who has already failed in life, ie why werent any of them at work, dont they have fucking jobs? Waste of space morons.

Haha! Yeah that's why they did it. To get famous! They are off selling their stories to Hello! magazine for millions right now. Their names are gonna go down in history. The names of famous activists will read like this: Martin Luther King Jr, Ghandi, Mandela... ummm actually what are these guys names? Guess I could look up their names in all the newspaper inches dedicated to them around the world cos they're so famous... um... hmmmm...?

H

Um thats because those 15 seconds were up a long time ago. Read before you wank

yeah a job. that's constructive. take some money off some people like yourself and give it all to some boss. really constructive behaviour that is. define failure. define success. to you they have certain meanings and to others totally different connotations. respect that. it could be your room to grow.

So thats what this is all about? The eternally justified battle against capitalism...i have plenty of rooms to grow in, because my flat is quite large. Not sure what you are trying to prove. Using lots of fullstops sure does help though. Boob.

Police trolls and climate change abettors please go away.

So anyone who disagrees with your holy worldview is a cop. As some dickwitt said earlier "thats real constructive".
-Make love AND war

LOVE U GUYS!
this made my day!!! I think its an incredible action that speaks volumns about the importance of the issue, big ups for those who were involved and the entire SHV crew..
All the best for court etc may logic and justice actually pervail.
With you always in spirit, as I bike on to the G8
to give it to the bastards on this side of the globe: climate change is reality - its our responsibility to act - no 2nd chances!!
xxx

"So anyone who disagrees with your holy worldview is a cop."
Cop, cop sympathiser, or climate fucker. Take your pick.

Cop fucker

the real cops are the ones in our heads. kick the cop out of your head. live free. begin with your thoughts. and then with your actions.

I would like to ask that people get out of the habit of telling people with dissenting view not to use this site. I ask this for two reasons:

1) Indymedia is an open forum. There is no party line people are obliged to subscribe to before they post here. Reading a diversity of views allows us to get beyond binary left/right stereotypes and ist/ism dogmas and look deeper into the realities of people's lives that are often obscured by ideological conceptualizations of 'issues'.

1) There is a whole country full of people out there who do not agree with the green/ lefty activist worldview of the people who are usually claiming ownership of this forum by telling people to 'go away'. If we don't have any better arguments that that, we aren't going to make much progress in our causes.

I think the people that post counter to the prevailing beliefs here are usually sincere in their views, even if they are quite prickly and sometimes frivilous about expressing them. It may not seem that anybody ever gets influenced by rebuttals posted on comment threads. But even if they don't (and I'm not so sure) at least it makes us sharpen our own understandings of the issues and sometimes reveals we aren't all in consensus about what the correct green/ lefty line on an issue is at all.

Kotahi te aroha
Strypey

Good call

Hey well done people, we need more people out there like you!!! Climate Change is coming on us at an extremely scary rate, coal shouldn't be an option

there is 1000 times more coal in the world than oil. the fight against fossil fuels may need to escalate in the wake of oil and the increase in demand for coal. real alternatives now!