Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Mainstream Media coverage of actions from the Camp for Climate Action

imc | 31.08.2006 10:25 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos

Mainstream Media coverage of actions from the Camp for Climate Action

28 arrested in Drax power station demo
Police admit breach. Press association
 http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=58&newsID=9883

Eco-warriors march on Yorkshire power station
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2336455,00.html


Power plant demo arrests
Good coverage and photos in The Sun!
 http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006400405,00.html

Green protesters gather to close 'Drax the Destroyer'
A lyrical take on the protests.
 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=704581

Protesters march on power plant
Dorothy Thompson, chief executive of Drax Power, conceded that the plant could do more to cut emissions.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1862032,00.html

Protesters attempt to close Drax power station
Hundreds of demonstrators have begun a day of "creative mass action" against Britain's biggest coal-fired power station in an attempt to shut it down.
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/31/udrax.xml

Protesters arrested at UK power plant International press  http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/824627


Drax share prices down.  http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/security.cgi?csi=149583

Front Cover of Independent  http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1222823.ece

Local press regurgitate Police briefing.  http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.900501.0.campaigners_arrested_at_power_station.php

Guardian pick up lighting tower story - press association Police state 2 people arrested inside compound.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6049300,00.html

Activists block power station GREEN activists formed a human road block at Hartlepool's nuclear power station.  http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1109&ArticleID=1726621

Protests grow over 'new nuclear' programme News of Harlepool Blockade and link to new nuke programme  http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=58&newsID=9759

Power station protesters arrested Police claim lighting tower protest was on barlow common not power station.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5300560.stm

Climate change protesters feel the heat Focus on section 60 and searches.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1861649,00.html


Ban for anti-nuclear protesters Inaccurate report of bail conditions  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/5297930.stm

Power protest spreads as lines are cut Power lines cut in yorkshire - could it be a co-incidence?  http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1728710

Green protesters target Drax power plant Wednesday preparation and power issues, National Grid.  http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-30T164812Z_01_L30224964_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-POWER-DRAX.xml

imc
- Homepage: http://www.indymedia.org.uk

Additions

More mainstream media articles and coverage

01.09.2006 10:03

Yesterday coverage was extensive on broadcast media with radio running the story all day, inc debates on radio 4 and local radio, digital news channels did hourly reports and terrestrial news programmes all featured the camp and the day of action.

Police statements from "Operation Harmony" as it was called, had a distinct new labour feel to them over the last few days with constant nonsense being quoted like "We're happy to provide as many resources for the protestors as they need. At the camp we're providing a liaison interface between protestors and the local community" - it's not too difficult to see what that means when you decode it...

Worthy of a mention is the spin on the section 60 stop and searches, with the police justifying hundreds of individual searches with the statistic of two people found with weapons - one newspaper suspects a boltcopper, legal teams say there were people arrested for possession of a crewdriver, another for a fork, and another for a penknife. Most media reports mention that protestors were arrested for possession of 'weapons'. For more see:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/349591.html

Below is a selection of further articles:

===================================

Drax demo 'gets message across'
Climate change campaigners happy with day of protest – but some condemn huge police presence
 http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1735750

====================================

Huge policing bill as Drax defended
Paul Jeeves
 http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1735833

====================================

In the shadow of Drax, not so much a fight as a festival
Martin Wainwright
Friday September 1, 2006
The Guardian
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1862662,00.html

· 38 held as police foil plan to halt 'dirty' power plant
· Protesters outnumbered in siege that wasn't

====================================

Hundreds protest over coal station emissions
By Paul Stokes
(Filed: 01/09/2006)
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/01/ndrax01.xml

====================================

Green goes mainstream
Leader
Friday September 1, 2006
The Guardian
 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1862626,00.html

====================================

Arrests as 600 march on coal power station
By Andrew Norfolk
The Times
September 01, 2006
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2337905,00.html

====================================

COAL PROTEST WASHOUT
By Rory Smith
ECO activists yesterday failed to shut Britain's biggest power station.
 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17661319&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=coal-protest-washout--name_page.html

====================================

Drax Group Plc (DRX LN): The U.K.'s largest power station, said climate change protesters failed to shut down its power station, where police made 38 arrests, the Financial Times said, citing Chief Executive Officer Dorothy Thompson. Shares were unchanged at 900 pence.
 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aQxj8.qV7o5M&refer=uk

====================================

Cameron calls for emissions law
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5304570.stm

====================================

BBC: In pictures: Protest at Drax power station
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 18:05 GMT
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5303596.stm

====================================

Protestor fight to end coal power
Children's bbc Newsround:
Hundreds of protestors are demanding the UK stops getting electricity from coal, by demonstrating at one of Britain's biggest power stations.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5300000/newsid_5302500/5302514.stm

====================================

Police defend Drax station action
Officers from seven forces were drafted in to help the operation
The head of North Yorkshire Police has defended the decision to draft in hundreds of officers from across the country to police Drax power station.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/5303396.stm

====================================

Protesters arrested at power plant
Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:39 PM BST
By Nigel Roddis
 http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-31T153859Z_01_L31792134_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-POWER-DRAX.xml

====================================

Climate protesters fail to halt Drax
By James Wilson and Fiona Harvey
Published: August 31 2006 20:36
 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2a404164-3925-11db-a21d-0000779e2340.html

====================================

Climate Change Protests At Power Stations
600 protesters have staged a demonstration at the country's biggest coal fired power station, Drax, near Selby in North Yorkshire.
 http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1556

====================================

Syndicated to many news websites + newspapers:

38 arrests in power station protest
Press Association
Thursday August 31, 2006 8:23 PM

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6050606,00.html
 http://express.lineone.net/news_detail_pa.html?sku=11570527804510167-H1
 http://www.icnetwork.co.uk - all local ic news sites

====================================

Association of Energy Producers boss slams Drax protestors
 http://www.energy-business-review.com/article_news.asp?guid=20FA151C-4035-4A21-9B19-D577A6880403

====================================

DON'T WASTE YOUR ENERGY
Paul Routledge
ECO-nutters gathered in their hundreds outside Europe's biggest coal-fired power station at Drax in North Yorkshire yesterday.
 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/paulroutledge/tm_objectid=17661387&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=don-t-waste-your-energy--name_page.html

====================================

The Battle of Drax: 38 held as protest fails to close plant
By Jonathan Brown
Published: 01 September 2006
 http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1223134.ece

====================================

28 held in protest at power station
DAVE HIGGENS
 http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1290392006

mhor


Comments

Display the following comment

  1. more local coverage — tomas
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech