Queensferry Daily Photo etc. I know it's a bad photo but it shows Greenpeace activists (the tiny red blobby things) hanging from the Forth Road Bridge with banners critical of Ineos and their fracking operations. One of their oil tankers headed up stream earlier today. I was struck by reading some of our "local" social media comments about how bad it all was that people were protesting in this way, closing the bridge, making a fuss, taking up resources to gain attention for what are quite a complex set of issues.
Just who are the goodies and who are the baddies here? Are Ineos good? They just closed down Scotland's only oil refinery but still manufacture loads of single use plastics worldwide. They are the big boys in the chemical industry. Is Greenpeace bad for causing disruption and affecting traffic? They also represent a set of views I tend to agree with but fail to live by. Is the right side of history theirs when it comes to fracking?
Is it a simple and binary matter or just another shitty mess that none of us can quite get our heads around? All I know is that if there are rebels of any kind, I'll tend to take their side as a default position. Also when I see very strange government agency vehicles (not police, military or fire) screaming around the town with blue lights and sirens I tend to start to worry. There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear ...
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