Breaching the Kingsnorth Fence

This seems to be the main story of the day. Activists who made it to the fence utilised some tempory fencing put up by the cops to make some convenient ladders. The riot squad eventually showed up a cleared people away but not before several individuals had made it across.

Making use...

...of those Police supplied ladders.

One very outnumbered motorbike cop.

Going over the top.

Inside.

Another intruder for the planet.

The scrum begins.

And continues.

Police decide that their ladders...

...are not for public use afterall.

Arrest prevention.

Get used to sights like this. The oil has already peaked. No more cheap power.

The electric fence put up for the occasion seemed to be switched off. Another unbelievable waste of public money? Or will this just be added to our energy bills? The Police were pretty agro free choosing to push people back rather than hit them. So Kingsnorth was slightly invaded as people at the camp had promised. On the radio a Kingsnorth spokeman was saying that power could be cut to people in Kent if too many people got it. Have they not heard of the national grid, or was that just scarmongering spin?

Guido
e-mail: guidoreports@riseup.net

Additions

Good instincts 'concerned'.

09.08.2008 21:18

The problem I found with a lot of the politics of Climate Camp was that it was very anti-worker - a lot of the ideology seemed to come from Hippies, lifestyle anarchists and liberals. Some of us came with sane ideas though...

Check this -

http://workersclimateaction.co.uk/node/32#attachments

Third Camp

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What about workers jobs?

09.08.2008 15:46

What about all the people who work at Kingsnorth power station who need to earn money? Also what about all the other people who work in the coal industry? You cannot just stop the coal industry and throw tens of thousands of people out of work!

concerned

Jobs

09.08.2008 16:17

Power generated from renewables provides more jobs than coal power - especially as more than half of the coal used in the UK is imported. Germany's fledging renewables industry already employs quarter of a million people.

Increasing our reliance on increasingly imported fossil fuels is bad for UK jobs, bad for the UK economy and also bad for the global environment.

Chris Vernon
mail e-mail: chris@vitaltrivia.co.uk
Homepage: http://europe.theoildrum.com/

Hello again concerned

09.08.2008 16:33

I say again: what will happen to those currently working at Kingsnorth while the plant is demolished and rebuilt? No way will E-On keep them on.

Those workers have skills that they should get the opportunity to use more productively. E-on are about to pitch them onto the slag heap.

rubbish addition & other bits

13.08.2008 21:51

I don't know why the first comment has been made an addition - I guess it's due to an IMC moderator abusing their power. There were many problems with the politics of the climate camp, but saying you've got the answers and listing the other groups you say were there and are the problem ain't really very instructive.

No-one's saying the coal industry will end tomorrow, and even if they were: there's very few people employed by open cast coal mining (about 30 a site); there's no jobs on a dead planet.

no jobs on a dead planet

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