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Kingsnorth closure - Greenpeace response

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8 March, 2012

Responding to news today that the power station at Kingsnorth in Kent is to close down, Ben Stewart of Greenpeace, who was one of six campaigners acquitted of criminal damage in 2008 after shutting down the coal plant, said: 

“This decision signals the drawing to an end of unabated highly polluting coal in Britain. Eon spent many wasted years trying to push through their controversial plan for another old-fashioned polluting coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth. 

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, e.on, energy, kingsnorth

VW film competition: classic Greenpeace films - A Time Comes

Posted by Richardg — 30 August 2011 at 1:51pm - Comments
The Greenpeace activists who closed down Kingsnorth coal-fired power station
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace
Watch this classic film about our action against Kingsnorth coal power station

In just under three weeks we'll be rolling out the red carpets and challenging film makers to turn the cameras on Volkswagen. If you're in London, why not join us at the Curzon Soho at 10am, Saturday 17 September for the launch?

Article tagged as: classic films, climate change, emissions, film competition, kingsnorth, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

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Another victory over dirty coal as Kingsnorth plans scrapped

Posted by jamess — 21 October 2010 at 3:42pm - Comments

Emily Hall - one of the Kingsnorth Six - on the coal station's chimney stack

Crack out the balloons and the (recycled) paper hats - it's party time.

Kingsnorth is shelved. Again.  Yesterday the news came out that Eon, the company behind the plans for the first new coal plant in the UK in over 30 years was scrapping its proposal to build another climate-wrecking monster to replace its current power station in Kent.

Article tagged as: coal, kingsnorth, success

The case against coal - frequently asked questions

Last edited 13 September 2010 at 6:42pm

According to leading US climate scientist, the NASA director Professor James Hansen:

"The single greatest threat to the climate comes from burning coal. Coal-fired generation is historically responsible for most of the fossil-fuel CO2 in the air today - responsible for about half of all carbon dioxide emissions globally."

Below you can find out more about why we urgently need to the halt the new coal rush, and Greenpeace's  case for real solutions to climate change and energy insecurity.

Does carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology mean that cleaner coal exists and is a viable low-carbon fuel?

The industry says CCS is viable. Why should I take your word over theirs?

Why are the politicians so convinced CCS will work?

If China and India are inevitably going to burn coal for decades to come then don't we need to become a world leader in 'clean coal' technology and export it to them?

Article tagged as: CCS, coal, decentralised energy, kingsnorth, renewable energy, wind power

Coal: going, going, gone?

Posted by jossc — 4 January 2010 at 6:37pm - Comments

It's been a long, difficult and wild ride at times, but an end to climate damaging carbon emissions from new coal power stations could be in sight at last. Finally, some politicians seem to have recognised that we can't cut our CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 AND keep pumping the stuff out of our power plants - hooray!

Last December the government announced a new energy bill that explicitly recognises this reality. So far so good - but (as you'll be shocked to discover) there's a problem. As yet the bill has no teeth - whilst it says that new power stations must be able to capture some of their emissions from the get go, it contains no guarantee that by 2025 all carbon emissions from coal must be captured, and that's the bit that really counts.

Article tagged as: CCS, co2 emissions, coal, energy, EPS, kingsnorth, miliband

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