You know these same groups are hating on fossil fuels and are super enviros and Warmists
Indigenous Canadians and activists protest against Quebec battery factory
When the Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt announced plans to build a multibillion-dollar “gigafactory” in Quebec, the proposal was heralded as a win for Canada’s ambitions to become a global green energy powerhouse – and lauded as an environmentally sensitive project which would minimize harmful emissions.
Four months later, however, protesters are describing the sprawling plant an “ecocidal disgrace”, and driving steel bars and nails into trees, to prevent the company from clearcutting forests and destroying wetlands ahead of construction.
With nearly half of global emissions from automobiles, the European battery giant says plants like its future Northvolt Six facility, which it claims has a low carbon footprint and on-site materials recycling, are critical in the multinational effort to electrify vehicles.
But a dispute around the plant, in a forested enclave near Montreal, has pitted environmentalists and First Nations against the company over fears construction will destroy 170 hectares of wetlands and woodlands, killing or displacing at-risk species.
One group, the Quebec Environmental Law Center, which is super for ‘climate change’ and has been suing for related measures, sued over the plant. But, lost in court. So
For some activists, however, the courts are too slow a venue:last week, an anonymous group claimed responsibility for driving steel bars and nails into the trunks of at least 100 trees in an attempt to damage logging equipment and sabotage construction. The group said they had identified the trees with spray paint.
“To stop Northvolt, we need to multiply our tactics and hit where it hurts: causing economic risk and uncertainty … We gave the forest weapons to defend itself!” the group wrote on the Montreal Counter Information website, a self-described anarchist forum.
Yeah, they’re all for these “green” things right up till they end up in their neighborhoods or harm a bug or tree.
