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.
