Boson Extinction Rebellion Blocks Roads to Oil Shippers On Neponset River Docks

 

Protesters belonging to the climate change activism group Extinction Rebellion have attempted to blockade access to an oil refinery in Boson, Massachusetts, claiming that the plant’s operator is the state’s biggest polluter.

Demonstrators used two boats to block two roads leading to the plant and the company’s headquarters. A small group of protesters also chained themselves together at the gates of the refinery, telling local media that they plan to block the entrance to the plant until at least the end of the day. 

Photographs posted to social media by the group show demonstrators marching down a road holding large banners reading “Climate justice = Social justice” and “Stop oil company ecocide.”

A group of boaters rallied in the nearby waters of Boson Harbour off Half Moon Island.  They spelled out a message that could only be read by someone at least a thousand feet up.  

The boats used to block the roads were also used to relay Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) grim ecological forecast. “The future you fear is already here,” warned a message painted on one of the vessels. 

The radical environmental group, known for its theatrical protests and headline-grabbing acts of civil disobedience, claims that the petrochemical manufacturer is New England’s largest polluter. The site is the Northeast’s only crude oil refinery. 

Annie Lane, 26, an activist from Quincy, told the media that XR was blockading the plant to “expose the climate destruction” that the company is allegedly causing, claiming that the world was “running out of time” to take action to prevent an environmental catastrophe. 

At a similar protest last spring Ms. Lane said essentially the same thing, but was in a different exotic costume.  

By nightfall the mostly peaceful protesters had set up a guillotine and called on bosses inside the oil facility to come out and be beheaded.  No bosses came out.  

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