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Gordon Brown today faces his biggest test since pledging to put Britain at the forefront of efforts to combat climate change, after a proposal to build the UK's first coal fired power station in over thirty years landed on his desk.
E.ON's application to build the station at Kingsnorth was given the go-ahead by Medway council last night. The Tory controlled authority has raised no objection to a plant that would emit over eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. Now the final decision on a UK coal resurgence will be made by Brown.
Posted by bex — 3 January 2008 at 11:15am
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It will be the UK's first new coal fired power plant in 34 years. It will emit as much carbon dioxide as the 30 least polluting nations in the world combined. And the world's leading climate scientist has called it "a tipping point for the world".
The proposal for a new coal-fired power plant at Kingsnorth in Kent has been given the go-ahead by Medway Council. At a meeting last night, only three of the 16 councillers objected to E.ON's application,
meaning that the plant - which will generate electricity in the most
climate-wrecking way known to humankind - has been approved, potentially starting a new coal rush in the UK.
Posted by bex — 19 December 2007 at 1:05pm
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A couple of days ago, I wrote that leading climate scientist and director of Nasa's Goddard Institute James Hansen was planning to write to Gordon Brown, urging him to stop the new coal rush in the UK.
Here's the full text of that letter. It's powerful stuff, and piles the pressure onto Gordon Brown ahead of next month's decision by Medway Council, on whether to allow the first new coal plant in 30 years to be built at Kingsnorth.
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NASA expert tells PM, "You have the potential to influence the future of the planet"
Dr James Hansen, the world's leading climate scientist, has today written a remarkable letter to Gordon Brown telling the Prime Minister his energy policy could be a "tipping point for the world."
Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology and his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.
Posted by bex — 17 December 2007 at 4:02pm
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that building a load of new coal power plants probably isn't the brightest idea for the future of our planet, but it's nice when a rocket scientist comes out and says it.
The director of Nasa's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen, has joined the debate on the UK's the new coal rush, and is writing to Gordon Brown to urge him to block plans to
build up to eight new coal-fired power stations.
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Gordon Brown tomorrow faces his first test since pledging to put Britain at the forefront of efforts to combat climate change. A proposal to build the UK's first coal fired power station in over thirty years (1) will land on his desk on the same day his government launches a consultation on expansion at Heathrow airport.
The outcome of Brown's decisions on new coal and new runways will determine whether Britain can meet its long-term global warming targets, which the Prime Minister on Monday suggested would be revised upwards to an 80 per cent cut in emissions by 2050.
Posted by bex — 10 October 2007 at 6:06pm
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Posted by bex — 9 October 2007 at 5:21pm
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Just a very short update from Kingsnorth:
The chimney crew are all down; they were arrested when they reached the bottom. The conveyor belt team were held overnight and most of them are still in police custody, although I've just heard that five of them have been released. We reckon the rest of the conveyor belt team will be released in the next few hours.
Posted by bex — 9 October 2007 at 10:57am
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After spending a full day locked onto conveyor belts inside Kingsnorth coal fired power station - potentially the site of the first new coal plant in the UK for over 30 years - most of our volunteers in the conveyor belt team were arrested last night, after E.ON served an injunction.
The small team at the top of the chimney (above) spent the night 200-odd metres above safe ground. They’re still up there but, having placed the ball firmly in Gordon Brown’s court on whether the UK faces a new coal rush, they’ll be starting the long climb down soon. It sounds as though spirits are high, if a little exhausted.
