{"id":1952090,"date":"2023-06-20T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-activists-brutalized-by-security-while-protesting-biden-energy-secretary\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:16:54","slug":"climate-activists-brutalized-by-security-while-protesting-biden-energy-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-activists-brutalized-by-security-while-protesting-biden-energy-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate activists were subjected to brutal treatment by security personnel during their protest against the Energy Secretary appointed by President Biden."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-activists-brutalized-by-security-while-protesting-biden-energy-secretary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Protesters Interrupt Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm&#8217;s Speech on Climate Change<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Protesters at a Monday event where Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm was speaking were forcibly removed, or &#8220;brutalized&#8221; as the activists described it, after interrupting her remarks on climate change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Today we turned up to a keynote by the pro-pipeline U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm,&#8221; activist group Climate Defiance <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateDefiance\/status\/1670945441180004353\">posted<\/a> on Twitter after the event in Birmingham, Mich. &#8220;We were peaceful. Her henchmen brutalized us anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateDefiance\/status\/1670945441180004353\">claimed<\/a> one protester received bruises &#8220;the size of baseballs&#8221; and another was &#8220;dragged out by the ears.&#8221; The disruptors <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BGOnTheScene\/status\/1670776640283070465\">chanted<\/a> about Granholm&#8217;s support for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-laptop-from-hell-documents-show-hunter-biden-using-family-leverage-in-prospective-deal-to-sell-louisiana-natural-gas-to-chinese-firm\/\" title=\"Exclusive-- \u2018Laptop from Hell\u2019 Documents Show Hunter Biden Using Family Leverage in Prospective Deal to Sell Louisiana Natural Gas to Chinese Firm\">natural gas project<\/a> in Appalachia. The event, sponsored by the <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em>, continued after the activists were dragged out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No MVP. No LNG. Granholm, you are killing me,&#8221; the protesters yelled, referencing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stranded-suez-canal-cargo-ship-partially-freed\/\" title=\"Stranded Suez Canal Cargo Ship Partially Freed\">liquified natural gas<\/a> that would be carried in the pipeline. Granholm has repeatedly defended the pipeline, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/18\/granholm-gas-pipeline-energy-security-00097766\">arguing<\/a> it&#8217;s necessary for energy security and moving to a zero-emissions system.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Protesters Speak Out Against Granholm&#8217;s Actions<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Something that I hate is when what people say doesn&#8217;t match what they do,&#8221; a protester said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what Granholm&#8217;s doing. She&#8217;s saying she&#8217;s going to help the climate, she&#8217;s going to have all these innovative solutions. Then, she claims that somehow drilling for more fossil fuels will get us to renewable energy. That&#8217;s just not how it works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Granholm is facing criticism from the other side of the aisle for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/top-republican-demands-investigation-of-biden-energy-secretary-over-her-shifting-story-on-ford-stocks\/\">failing<\/a> to disclose that her husband owned stock in Ford Motor Company while the Biden administration was actively promoting its electric products. In 2021 she made a profit of $1.6 million on a sale of stock she owned in Proterra, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-media-watchdog-defends-jennifer-granholms-wealth-after-helping-her-become-a-millionaire\/\" title=\"Left-Wing Media Watchdog Defends Jennifer Granholm\u2019s Wealth After Helping Her Become a Millionaire\">electric vehicle company<\/a> the White House was also pushing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters disrupted Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm&#8217;s climate change speech, resulting in their forceful removal. Activist group Climate Defiance labeled it as &#8220;brutalization&#8221; and shared their account on Twitter: &#8220;We attended a keynote by pro-pipeline U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1952091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4091,15046,3620,8260,4321,4486,4792,3669,4542,3779,3646,29201,6967],"class_list":["post-1952090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-activists","tag-appointed","tag-biden","tag-brutal","tag-climate","tag-energy","tag-personnel","tag-president","tag-protest","tag-secretary","tag-security","tag-subjected","tag-treatment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}