A local weather change protester has disrupted peak-hour site visitors in Adelaide after utilizing a rope to droop herself from a metropolis bridge.
The girl spent about 90 minutes dangled above North Terrace after abseiling over the Morphett Street bridge on Wednesday morning.
Extinction Rebellion South Australia stated her motion was to provide a “life or death message” to delegates attending the close by Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association convention on the Adelaide Convention Centre.
“No new oil and gas exploration and production, if we want to avert total climate catastrophe and collapse of our natural systems,” the group stated.
It stated site visitors on Morphett Street and on North Terrace had been safely diverted.
But Police Commissioner Grant Stevens described the protest as utterly egocentric.
“It was very infuriating to hear what people had to put up with, as a result of this completely selfish protest activity,” he informed radio FiveAA.
Mr Stevens stated he absolutely supported the appropriate of individuals to protest.
“But there’s a way to do it to get your message across and there’s a way to do it and piss people off,” he stated.
“By all means protest, get your message across, but do it in a way that doesn’t unfairly and disproportionately affect so many innocent people.”
It was the second day of motion on the APPEA occasion after a number of activists glued themselves to the pavement exterior the convention on Tuesday.
That motion was dismissed by federal Resources Minister Madeleine King who stated they had been “using petrochemicals to glue themselves to the footpath”.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
