Tooting my own horn here for a bit, but I was disappointed by the limited press coverage and complete lack of political reaction to the biggest climate action of this kind in our country.
I was wondering what you guys think of these kind of actions? Justified or not? Good target for something like this?
Full disclosure: I participated there, so I’m fully supportive of course.
@Mysteriarch I would like to understand /why/ #Engie is building 3 new fossil fuel burning plants instead of nuclear. If that decision was in their control, then indeed it seems like a good reason to target them for a boycott.
I’d argue that they don’t even need to have decision making control to be a legit target for actions. Fossil fuel infrastructure is, by itself, reason enough, it seems to me, since any new investment is immoral and dangerous. Besides that, the new power stations are largely (if not completely) being built with taxpayer subsidies, the decision making is happening on all levels, from the corporate to the political. (and nuclear energy in Belgium is dead on arrival - too costly, too slow, too difficult - regardless of the ecological and technological debate)