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Rattcliffe 11 to face courts

anonymous autonomous | 21.05.2007 17:57 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos

11 people have been charged with aggrevated tresspass for entering Rattcliffe on Soar power station on the 10th of April

Yesturday, 11 people were charged with aggrevated tresspass for entering Rattcliffe on Soar power station on the 10th of April. After answering bail yesturday they were charged and released to appear back in court on the 4th June.

Production at Ratcliffe was halted when activists locked themselves to the conveyer belts, stopping the supply of coal to the plant for over 3 hours. The accused all protest their innocence to the charges of aggrevated tresspass. One of the activists said "I believe this action was a reasonable and proportionate response to the threat of catastrophic climate change and that this action was to prevent a greater crime occuring."

It is estimated that the action at Rattcliffe stopped the burning of 5,000 tonnes of coal, eqivalent to preventing 9,000 tonnes of CO2 being emitted. A low impact lifestyle could release as little as 1 tonne of CO2 per year. Meaning that each of the activists could have offset thier emissions for up to the next 1,000 years!

The action did not only seriously affect production at Ratcliffe but put pressure on the whole grid. To an extent production could have increased elsewhere to cover the shortage but not immdeiately to great affect. Huge pressure was put on the grid and there was much less electricity around that day. This was about stopping coal from being burnt but also electricity from being produced in this way altogether. The activists came very close to shutting Rattcliffe down for 48 hours; EON nearly had to fire the whole furnace back up. If this shortage had persisted, the grid would have been vulnerable to further such actions.

The action was inspired by the Camp for Climate Action, check out  http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/ to find out more.


anonymous autonomous


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steaming EON making green martyrs

23.05.2007 00:19

Radcliffe power station EON salesmen were recently describing palm kernels taken from Deforestation & monoculture,shipped here as a green fuel!!hahaha

EON if you prosecute, it will get in news & u will make us matyrs wether convicted or not

You claim to be green & right on supporting womens football, u need to stop prosecutions & sort themselves out now, before your workers get itchy feet & all leave or strike over health & safety, plus use of foreign workers to split workforce at some power plants,etc

Eon need to be prosecuted for climate damage, even Arnold Sharwzenegger is suing oil companies, though he is a bit of a fashion junky

www.iww.org.uk

Spartacus


Thanks for the support

24.05.2007 19:51

Thanks for the support Spartacus,

however please could people who aren't one of the eleven not claim to be one of them.

They won't be making green mayrters out of you Spartacus but other people.

However please do continue to support them and challenge the continued econominc growth that requires E-on and Radcliffe to exist.

Concerned


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