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Climate change activists target power station Part 2

Gary Austin | 10.04.2007 20:50 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology

A group of people inspired by the Camp for Climate Action have disrupted the operation of Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station by locking themselves to machinery. Direct Action was taken to target the 3rd largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK


















"Profiting from this polluting industry is obscene and irresponsible"
More details are available from:

website:  http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk





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Nottinghamshire springs into action,e-on burns rainforests & council flunks

11.04.2007 07:59

Eons figures are cooked with rainforest palms, whilst potraying itself as eco, the pictures above show it all.
Radcliffe is e-on=powergens "centre of innovation"a major polluter with coal coming from S.africa & China as well as "eco" palm kernels taken from the mass destruction of mature rainforests which absorb billions of tonnes more Co2 for so called "biofuels".
The Trent Valley has worst air quality in europe according to some scientific surveys, soot from the towers can be seen on surfaces of those living nearby.
The trains coming into radcliffe with coal are constant. This coal is dug out in v.poor working conditions from deep in the ground & transported half way around the world, where as iron ore for biopower generators comes out once & is reused.

Nottingham City Council have just pulled out from a major eco development on Victoria embankment & scaled it down. This is apperently due to negative feedback, but how did they do their consulation?.
This seemed like a token & flawed plan, puttting wind generators in the bottom of the trent valley.The Local community wasnt introduced to the project & its benefits.
Imagine a wind generator on the top of eastcroft & every tall building in Nottingham, like sneinton windmill its a beautiful view to the future from our heritage.

More proffessional wind/wave/solar/thermal/hydro/methane/bio power generators can be set up now in consultation with local communities & in harmony with the environment. This would create thousands of local jobs, all of them could be made here. Ground source thermal heating can completely heat most of our homes, by using heat from only 2 metres below the ground, the technology is unaffordable for most at moment, showing we need a major change in society as well as revolutions in science for many things to be made affordable & fair.Their greater efficiency though means the investment can be recouped in two to ten years & then its freeeee!
At moment workers cooperatives like V3power & Sustainability who helped put into action the brilliant spring into action lead the way & offer training & installation of viable cost effective wind & solar generators to domestic & commercial sectors.
 http://www.v3power.org/news.htm

You can also switch to Companies like ecotricity straight away seem geniunely envornmental for same price as the corporates, although there needs to be total worker control by consensus.


ps
Amazing action, sorry couldnt be there,on bail & injured trying to stop bad gangs terrozing communities ,but police bosses are trying to frame me & other eco activists as terrorists for having basic self defence equipment like kubotans & batons, not when wandering street, but packed in 3 travel bags at a train station.
Good people in general aren't allowed to carry simple self defence tools, I successfully have stood upto knife gangs aping oil corporations by terrorizing & stealing from local communities. Sometimes they outnumber your average citizen who stands up, but when community feels empowered to back itself gangs can be stopped & turned around peacefully.

People need to be able to stand up & defend themselves, activists & anarchists do not support terrorism, we support self defence & decent laws far more than capitalists.
We don't want to fight the police, they are bizarrely ordered to stop us defending international law & human rights, our enemy is really theirs too, the corporate elite.
As things are going they really are trying to replace even foot soldiers with robots in Iraq.
Sometime in the near future this will be tried on the police too, extremely cancerous Tetra police radio's are only part of mad grip by the corporate oligarchs, they have been using cyrogenics to freeze their brains like daleks for decades,

 http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk/
www.iww.org.uk
 http://www.ecohub.co.uk/pages/ecolink.html
 http://www.ground-source-heating.co.uk/index.htm
 http://www.healthgoods.com/Education/Healthy_Home_Information/space_heating_and_cooling/geothermal_heat.htm

pps can we have someone on amazingly brave lock on teams with a camera on the next action please, the media arent allowed through. The pic doesnt have to be of the people initially locking on, which the police would try & use in court against us

robin ludd


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