400 Union Boilermakers Tie Up Traffic Pittsburgh Protesting Obama and Clean Coal

[RamboLiberal]

Hundreds of union members of Local 154 Boilermakers this morning are demonstrating along a section of Banksville Road for clean coal.

The approximately 400 union members hope to get the attention of Washington politicians.

"We elected Obama and for a year and a half we haven't heard him saying anything about clean coal," said Bernie Duffy, 52, of Mt. Washington. "If legislators don't want to get on board, we'll vote them out."

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_696429.html


Members of the Boilermakers Local 154 line Banksville Road this morning for a clean coal protest.
James Knox/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review



Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette Members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 154 are asked Wednesday morning by City of Pittsburgh Police to move from the oubound lanes of Banksville Road. More than 400 union protesters rallied to advocate the use of clean coal.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10237/1082511-100.stm#ixzz0xcuRiarq



A caller from the union told Channel 4 Action News the rally is in support of clean coal as an energy source, rather than windmills and wind farms.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/24753933/detail.html

Well this was the big news in my town this morning. Banksville is one of the major commute roads in to the city so I imagine they pissed off quite a number of drivers.

[JohnnyBoots]

1. I used to live just up the hill from there. Beer store is just down the street in

the opposite direction. Glad I moved.

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2. Clean Coal......

how do you spell oxymoron? or are they just morons...I support Unions but this way of thinking has got to go, coal should not be our future. What we can't fire a boiler with anything else?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. It's like kosher pork I guess. nt

[blue sky at night]

3. sorry mod, delete..

[sharp_stick]

4. Nothing like blocking traffic

to show your support for an "environmental" cause like "clean coal".

I have to admit the ad campaign for the scam that is clean coal is brilliant however.