-In Germany, police used batons, pepper spray and water cannons to attack about 150 climate justice advocates, who staged a nonviolent sit-in protest on a rail supply line leading to the harbor in Hamburg. 

Hamburg, August 17 (RHC)--In Germany, police used batons, pepper spray and water cannons to attack about 150 climate justice advocates, who staged a nonviolent sit-in protest on a rail supply line leading to the harbor in Hamburg. 

The protesters are seeking to halt construction of new liquified natural gas terminals along Germany’s coast.  This comes as German households face spiraling fuel costs that could see them spend hundreds of euros more per year to power their homes. 

German protest spokesperson Charly Dietz told reporters: “In Germany, too, the energy crisis is hitting those hardest who contributed the least, a crisis in which many bear the costs while the few corporations pocket billions in profits.  It is explicitly not an energy crisis; it is a capitalist distribution crisis.”