Some climate activists tried to block a large tank facility in Rümlang on Thursday morning: they set up two large bamboo scaffoldings on the access road – but trucks kept driving through them.
Around 6 a.m., four climate activists set up two beacons – eight-meter-high bamboo scaffolding – in front of the entrance to the plant and climbed a rope into the crown of the beacons, as the Swiss Climate Strike wrote in a press release. «Their goal is to block the tank facility for as long as possible, and so in a direct action CO2 prevent emissions.”
Blocking worked only moderately
However, truck traffic was not completely blocked. At the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, the Zurich cantonal police said it was just an attempt at a blockade. According to a Keystone SDA reporter, there was some space between the two scaffolds, which allowed the truck to drive through despite the action.
The Rümlang tank facility, a distribution center for petrol, diesel and heating oil, is an important hub for mineral oil transport in Switzerland; 14 percent of Swiss sales would flow through the lines here, writes the climate strike in its statement. With every hour of blockade, 400 tons of CO2 blocked.
The participants justified their action with the fact that the oil that is loaded in Rümlang, “fires conflicts over land use, wars and climate catastrophes”. Mass burning of fossil fuels is a crime that should be a thing of the past and illegal. (SDA)