Greenwash Guerrillas at the Guarde.on
You wait all week for a protest about the insanity of new coal-fired power stations and then two come along at once. Actually, we barely have to wait at all these days, what with the growing wave of opposition to Government and big business support for new coal, people are getting out and taking a stand against surefire climate disaster.
The Guardian had taken the ’slightly unusual’ decision to have it’s climate change conference sponsored by e.on – let no man say that journalists don’t have a highly developed sense of humour. Protected by toxic waste hazard suits and brandishing a top-of-the-line range of greenwash detecting devices, 40 intrepid Greenwash Guerrillas swarmed around the building, making sure that every delegate who entered knew about e.on’s attempt to build the first new coal fired power station in the UK for thirty years at Kingsnorth, in Kent.
Kingsnorth is going to be the site for the climate camp, which we may have mentioned before. Events like this are building momentum, excitement and interest, so why not head down in a couple of weeks and check it out?
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