Norwich RT Spoof E.on Stall
NRT | 29.11.2008 21:08 | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | Social Struggles
Today six activists from Norwich Rising Tide set up a spoof E.on stall on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s doorstep (RBS is one of E.on’s core sources of funding).
The spoof (despite all materials reading E.on F.off – including a table cloth, banner, t-shirts, leaflets, badges and stickers) fooled many of the public. Passers-by said things like “we don’t want to hear anything about E.on” and “I’m not a fan of E.on” (it really was amazing how hostile people were to E.on). Once they were informed that we were revealing the truth about E.on and Coal most then took a leaflet and badge.
In total we gave out 400 leaflets and undertook a questionnaire on behalf of E.on.
Results showed that …
50% of people didn’t know that E.on plans to build a new coal fired power station – they do now.
90% of people didn’t know that RBS will part funding it – again we made sure to inform them of this fact.
Lastly, 100% of people said they thought that coal fired power stations should be shut down and replaced with renewable energy sources.
We’ll pass on our findings to E.on as soon as possible!
Photos to follow shortly.
In total we gave out 400 leaflets and undertook a questionnaire on behalf of E.on.
Results showed that …
50% of people didn’t know that E.on plans to build a new coal fired power station – they do now.
90% of people didn’t know that RBS will part funding it – again we made sure to inform them of this fact.
Lastly, 100% of people said they thought that coal fired power stations should be shut down and replaced with renewable energy sources.
We’ll pass on our findings to E.on as soon as possible!
Photos to follow shortly.
NRT
e-mail:
norwich@risingtide.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.risingtide.org.uk/norwich
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Action?
30.11.2008 13:57
Surely there was more than this.
Pylon
indeed, this is what it's come to....
30.11.2008 14:15
But then that's par for the course with what has now got called the Climate Camp (rather than the Camp for Climate Action) - the day of action contained little direct action and was more about putting pressure, with perhaps action tactics, on government!!
Oh dear
doomsayer