Anarchist power line protest - Boulder, Colorado (Destroy Wildlife 4 Cancer?)

This is the bottom section of a brand new electrical tower on where somebody wrote, "Destroy Wildlife 4 Cancer?" with an Anarchism symbol. The guy removing the graffiti, a couple days later, told me that this bottom section weighs 41,500 pounds (18.8 metric tons). Also, the outside diameter of the base flange is 99 inches (251 millimetres) and the diameter of the tower's base, itself, is 74 inches (188 millimetres). Once installed, both sections will total 115 feet/35 metres from top to bottom.

This particular power pole is located immediately adjacent the Boulder Creek Trail near 55th and Valmont in Boulder, Colorado. Xcel Energy's Valmont Station 229 megawatt generating plant is only about a mile (1.6 kilometres) away to the east.

Interesting to note that these poles and power lines cross right through a very active prairie dog town adjacent the Boulder Creek trail. Also, at the time I was recording this video a security agent was in the nearby trees monitoring my every move.

Here's my personal web page about signs of protest:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/signsofprotest.html

Here's my personal web page about prairie dogs:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/prairiedogs.html

Here's my personal web page about cancer:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/cancer.html

04-16-2009

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• anarchist
• power
• pole
• protest
• boulder
• colorado
• prairie
• dogs
• cancer
• graffiti
• bike
• path
• multi-use

[r0botpiss]

so you wrote this then went back to film it ?

[zeekzilch]

No, I did not write it - I regularly ride my bike there along with a few hundred other people...

[r0botpiss]

ok huh i still have no idea whats this is about i mean destry wild life for cancer thats so randon and though of on the spot its ridicules

[tepechyautosales]

i wrtite cancer been writin since 2000 so fukk off