I don't doubt that, and certainly don't want protesting stopped. I do want it stopped when it moves to anarchy, destruction or affects life and livelihood.
This protest barely registers high on the anarchy, destruction and damage to life and livelihood scale.
It seems designed to generate maximum publicity for minimum impact on the public.
The false insinuations of it registering high on the anarchy, destruction and damage to life and livelihood scale come from the mildly affected industry that is (understandably) biased in parts and morally compromised in some parts. Not to mention a grandstanding, cheap PM that knows painting environmental protesters as workshy layabouts is always a way of scoring cheap support in some sections.