Posted by jossc — 22 June 2009 at 4:22pm
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Last night Greenpeace volunteers boarded E.ON's moving bulk freighter Sir Charles Parsons, carrying thousands of tonnes of coals to restock the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station.
They intercepted the freighter using rigid inflatable speedboats just after midnight as the ship sped up the River Medway towards Kingsnorth, then attached climbing ladders to the vessel and scaled the 15 metre hull. Three teams comprising nine people succeeded in boarding the ship. They then scaled the ship's huge funnel and the towering foremast to stop the ship from unloading.
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dramatic stand-off is unfolding at Kingsnorth power station in Kent where
climate change campaigners have boarded a moving bulk freighter carrying coal to
Britain's most controversial power plant. Three women are swimming in the river
Medway in front of the massive freighter and are stopping it loading while
climbers are hanging off the side of the ship. Dozens of police officers and a
helicopter are on the scene.
Posted by jossc — 17 June 2009 at 4:44pm
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Ed Miliband today announced the details of his new coal consultation. While recognising the need to reduce emissions from coal-fired power stations, as promised, it places equal emphasis on maintaining a "diverse, secure energy mix".
Posted by jossc — 17 June 2009 at 11:43am
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A new report out today casts doubt on the ability of the nuclear industry to deliver its promised new reactors.
French companies EDF and Areva, who are at the forefront of the new worldwide reactor design and building programme, have been making serious investments in foreign markets where they hope to build new reactors, including here in the UK. As a consequence they are heavily in debt.
Posted by jossc — 12 June 2009 at 4:36pm
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May's round up of images from around the Greenpeace world come from as far afield as Australia, where activists shut down a giant digger at the most polluting power station in the developed world; India, where we've been installing solar panels in schools; and Thailand, where volunteers canoed 350km to document the toxic damage being done to the Chao Praya, the country's most iconic river.
Posted by jossc — 12 June 2009 at 11:29am
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Here's the latest in the Deep Green column from Rex Weyler -author, journalist, ecologist and long-time Greenpeace trouble-maker. The opinions here are his own.
Global warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. If we attempt to reduce the fever, but ignore the disease, we will, at best, extend the suffering.
Posted by jossc — 10 June 2009 at 12:22pm
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Some of the YANC team outside Leeds Town Hall before the planning meeting
Good news in from Leeds last week, where a group of energised anti-coal campaigners with the marvellous acronym YANC (Yorkshire Against New Coal) pulled off a fairly stunning coup by persuading the local council to turn down plans for a climate-wrecking open cast coal mine.
