NW // Power station shut down: Netcu lying or Kent police lying?

Netcu have proudly published the following press release on their site:

"Fifty arrested during river rescue and scuffles - but protesters fail to close down power station

Around 50 people were arrested in disturbances today as climate camp protesters attempted to carry out their threat to break into Kingsnorth Power Station, near Hoo."

Skivens

PC Bacon

So if the power station wasn't closed down how was it functioning without cooling system? Check out the police charge sheet below for the Kent Police viewpoint!

With the dropping of the NETCU handbook and now this blunder how long before Pearl, Skivens, Bacon and co are looking for new jobs...

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Unfortunately only half true...

12.08.2008 12:58

Unfortunately this question has already been answered by the Medway Messenger which challenged E.ON on this point. They explained that the power station has four pumps and only one was shut down.

http://www.medwaymessenger.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=45687

I would imagine that a facility of this size has a lot of built-in redundancy and it would take this make than this to force it to stop generating.

James

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Joined up policing

12.08.2008 13:19

If Eon is busy telling the press that the plant wasn't disrupted, then that will surely undermine the charge. As for 'you made us cut the wire' - that isn't very impressive either - don't they have gates to get to the inlet pipes?

Ho hum

Disruptive dan

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One out of Four

12.08.2008 13:44

An E.ON source tells us that protesters did indeed succeed in getting a pump switched off, but that there were another three to choose from.

Meantime, you know how we, the national press, the police and Campers all said protesters chained themselves to the gates of Kingsnorth. Well, as it turns out, that wasn't technically true. It was in fact the entrance to the neighbouring industrial estate. The main gates of Kingsnorth are located a few hundred yards away.

So - enough to charge but no actual disruption.

Medway Messenger