The controversial proposal to build
a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent
has been thrown into doubt tonight. An email from German utility giant E.ON to
Greenpeace reveals the company no longer thinks construction is currently
economic. The email reveals the company is shelving the project for 2-3 years at
least.
A dramatic stand-off at Kingsnorth power station in Kent has ended after four Greenpeace campaigners, who boarded a coal freighter bound for the power station last night, came down from the foremast after being served with an injunction.
Greenpeace volunteers intercepted the freighter using rigid inflatable speedboats just after midnight this morning. As the ship sped towards Kingsnorth the campaigners attached climbing ladders to the vessel and scaled the 15 metre hull.
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.
12.30am - A
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 — 12 May 2009 at 4:09pm
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Ok, ok, I know there've been some unflattering things said about E.ON on these pages in the recent past, but that's just us trying to helpfully point them away from their dependence on dirty fuels towards the sunlit uplands of clean, green energy sources. And it doesn't mean that we can't praise them when they get something right, as they've done today in announcing the start of work on the long delayed London Array.
