coal
Posted by Fran G — 23 September 2014 at 3:18pm
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Activist on the coal train
I can see the giant towers of the Cottam coal power plant
looming on the horizon from my perch on top of a heap of coal, in the carriage
of a coal supply train.
Posted by Lawrence Carter — 23 September 2014 at 2:39pm
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Coal ready to be returned to sender
BREAKING: More than 50 people have stopped a train carrying
coal to Cottam power station and are now unloading its climate-wrecking cargo.
The train, transporting around 1,500 tonnes of coal to be burned in the power
station’s furnaces, was flagged down safely this afternoon as it
approached the power station.
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John Sauven, Greenpeace UK executive director, is
at the People’s
Climate March today, alongside Oscar-winning
actress, screenwriter and author Emma Thompson.
Posted by Greenpeace UK — 26 August 2014 at 5:07pm
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Local people in Mahan, central India, come together to oppose mining in their forests.
In the village it is pitch dark by 7.30 pm. At the designated spot for the meeting, there are about 15 or 20 villagers holding solar lanterns. The meeting lasts over two hours and throughout that time, people keep coming and joining the conversation. Halfway into the meeting, I turn around to steal a quick look at the crowd and I am surprised at how large the group has become! It’s about a 100 people sitting, standing, leaning against their houses and trees, listening intently and waiting for their turn to speak.
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Beijing, August 7, 2014: The existence of a giant coal
mine illegally encroaching on a nature reserve at the source of the iconic
Yellow River, China’s second longest, has been brought to light by a Greenpeace
investigation published by Energydesk today.
The sprawling mining operation, covering an area 14 times
the size of the City of London at an altitude of over 4,000m, has been
documented in detail for the first time in a series of striking pictures taken
by undercover campaigners from Greenpeace’s Beijing office. The industrial site
spans an entire coal industry chain, from huge opencast mines to the highest
coking plant in the world.
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The government was forced today to pledge to close a loophole in a power
sector subsidy scheme that could allow billions of bill payers’ money to go to
polluting old coal plants, Greenpeace can announce today.
In a statement issued earlier today the Department for Energy and Climate
Change (DECC) said it plans to amend the latest draft of the capacity market
rules to ensure existing coal plants are excluded from lucrative 15-year contracts
potentially worth billions of pounds. [1]
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