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Police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists

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Interesting Global News@lemmy.zip • 10 months ago

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Netherlands police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists

www.reuters.com

Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/cBBB1
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230909221319/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/police-use-water-cannon-climate-activists-block-dutch-highway-2023-09-09/

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10 months ago
Protests are either inconvenient or ineffective.

I hope these protests work. Fossil fuel companies don't need more subsidies.

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