ENVIRO CRAZE WATCH:Climate activists chain themselves at Australian port

Climate change campaigners chained themselves by the neck to equipment at the world's biggest coal port Tuesday in a protest ahead of a summit of Asia Pacific leaders, officials said.Police made at least 11 arrests after the protesters jumped a fence at the port of Newcastle, north of Sydney, and chained themselves to coal loaders at its Carrington terminal.Organisers said their action was continuing at Carrington, where police had cut five people from the machinery, and was stopping work at the port.The group, calling itself Young People Against Climate Change,said it was protesting at lack of action on climate change by Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders as well as raising awareness of the impact of Australia's coal exports.Police have charged a number of people with trespass, Australian television reported.Australia is the world's biggest coal exporter. Some of its best customers are Japan and South Korea, both APEC members, while the organisation includes the world's three biggest polluters in China, Russia and the United States.Coal burning for power generation is a key contributor to emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming."All Australia's biggest coal customers are in APEC," intruders' spokesman Nicky Ison said."While APEC rhetoric has focused on climate change, it is clear that APEC members have no intention of cutting back fossil fuel use."Australia is using the forum to promote the dangerous lie of 'clean coal', not to promote real action on climate change."The Newcastle protest followed a similar protest Monday by four activists who chained themselves to a coal-carrying conveyor belt at a power station in Victoria state.The plant, which provides nearly a third of Victoria's electricity, reduced output for five hours before three men and a woman were cut free by police and arrested.On Sunday, 12 members of the environmental group Greenpeace were arrested and charged after riding inflatable dinghies out to a ship carrying coal off Newcastle and painting an anti-APEC slogan on its hull.
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