Getting on top of the problem
A successful action from our friends at respectable student environment types People & Planet…
Warwick Students march on EON HQ
People & Planet built a coal power station complete with 12ft
cooling towers at EON HQ, Westwood Business Park, Coventry to protest
against their plans to build a new coal-fired power stations at
Kingsnorth in Kent.
Kingsnorth in Kent, will ensure the UK’s international leadership on
climate change goes up in smoke as a company interested only in its
profits and intent on opening up the doors to run away climate change.
People & Planet is calling for a full Public Inquiry into the Kingsnorth
proposal in order that the negative impacts of such a move are fully
exposed. We are also calling for a moratorium on any new coal-fired
power stations until the technology to capture and store the carbon they
release is fully operational and fitted.
The EON claims that it will be possible to fit carbon capture technology
to Kingsnorth at a later date. There is currently not a single coal
power station anywhere in the world that uses this technology. By IPCC
estimates, carbon capture and storage (CCS) will only be realistically
deployed around the world in the second half of the century. This leaves
at least forty years of standard dirty coal emissions.
The action is to highlight short-sighted idiocy in continuing to extract
and burn fossil fuels.
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