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Nottingham's part of 48 hours of nationwide action against E.ON

Tash [alan lodge] | 30.11.2008 22:49 | Climate Chaos

As part of 48 hours of nationwide action against E.ON, called for by the Camp for Climate Action, Rising Tide, Plane Stupid and Campaign against Climate Change, Nottingham students called a demonstration outside E.ON's city centre offices (Mount St, NG1 6PG)






















As part of 48 hours of nationwide action against E.ON, called for by the Camp for Climate Action, Rising Tide, Plane Stupid and Campaign against Climate Change, Nottingham students called a demonstration outside E.ON's city centre offices (Mount St, NG1 6PG)

They met at 11.45 in front of the the town hall in Market Square on Friday 27th Nov. Then moved over to the offices at 12pm to flyer and protest about E.ON's plans to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent, a venture that will wreck any serious plans to cut carbon emissions and protect the planet and its' population from the most disastrous effects of climate change.

The policing and security arrangements seemed a little excessive to me, to manage 10 students and fluffy toy!

Why target EON and Kingsnorth?

The proposed power station will emit between 6 and 8 million tons of CO2 every year, and is just the first in a plan to build up to seven new coal fired power stations. This will wreck the UK's chances of meeting its own target of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

Climate change isn't about warmer summers, here in the UK. It's about serious changes that will cost millions of people (particularly those that are the worst off and living precariously) their livelihoods and lives. If we can stop E.ON, other companies will be discouraged from risking similar plans, and we will send the strong message that the energy crisis needs to be tackled positively, implementing the solutions that will get us off fossil fuels.

E.ON's proposed new big coal powered electricity generating station – it will emit between 6 and 8 million tons of CO2 every year (equivalent to the annual emissions of Malawi's 13 million people or more CO2 than Heathrow's third runway would burn) source –  http://www.e-onf-off.org.uk/why.html

Kingsnorth in north Kent –  http://tinyurl.com/KingsnorthCoal-map

National E.On F.Off Actions Round Up
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413929.html

other recent events as part of this action:
Pix-&-Vidz of E.ON F.OFF, Pall Mall, London
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413789.html

E.on Shenanigans and Street Party in Bristol
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413831.html

and ..... earlier Nottingham action on the subject:

Nottingham Spring into Action :: Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367714.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367736.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367757.html

'Clean' Coal On Trial [Feature] inc Ratcliffe case court reports
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/01/389386.html

Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices in Nottingham : Pictures 1
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/04/395382.html

Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices in Nottingham : Pictures 2
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/04/395403.html

Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices Surveillance and Specialist Equipment
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/04/395429.html

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@indymedia.org
Member of the National Union of Journalists [No: 014345]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Tash [alan lodge]
- e-mail: tash@indymedia.org

Additions

Walking into Nottingham

30.11.2008 23:04





Walking into Nottingham to go this action [and on the way back], right there on the horizon and covering half the sky, the steam rises from the Ratcliffe Power Station. It is about 12 miles away. Of course, this is not chemical pollution, but with the the cold air, condenses to give an idea of the scale of the heat escaping [& CO2]and thus contributing to climate change.

Earlier examples
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367757.html

Tash


continued Police FIT surveillance of peaceful protest

30.11.2008 23:31






Also attending the event were CO996 Sgt Sulley of the Forward Intelligence Team of the Metropolitan Police. Also, his regular obbo PC 1818 of South Yorkshire Police. He must be one of the most travelled of the FIT, having been spotted in Nottingham at Heckler & Koch, Oxford at SPEAK demos, across London for Climate Camps, DSEi and No Borders Camp, at Faslane in October 2007 and Crawley for the No Borders march. [This is what FITwatch reports, but he's been further of course]. All this trouble, just in case anyone did anything wrong.

Watchers will have noted this team had been to Nottingham before, please check out:

Protest at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ in Nottingham
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/07/376847.html

At the last event here at E-on in Mount Street, the Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices, again seemed to warrant surveillance and Specialist Equipment, including FIT's CO 5494 PC Ian Skivens with an officer from PSNI
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/04/395429.html

More on these teams, can be seen at:  http://fitwatch.blogspot.com

Tash [alan lodge]
mail e-mail: tash@indymedia.org


Comments

Display the following 4 comments

  1. Well done. — Sam
  2. Links To Related Action Reports — Tim Dalinian Jones
  3. Committee on Climate Change report published today. — Tash [again]
  4. electricity hikes? — noname
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