Copypaste as I don't have time to paraphrase ... presumably they'll put their own words up at some point.
Five protesters held at West Burton power station, police searching for other people believed to have gained access to site of gas-fired power station in Nottinghamshire.
Five climate change protesters have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass at the site of a gas-fired power station.
Nottinghamshire police said some of those involved in the protest had scaled buildings at West Burton power station after gaining access to the site at about 1.20am.
A police spokesman said: "Around 10 [protesters] are thought to have climbed the water towers and have secured themselves to restrict their removal. Searches are ongoing to find a number of other people who are also believed to have gained access to the site."
One of the protesters said a total of 17 people had climbed two towers roughly 80 metres apart. Speaking by mobile phone from the site, the woman, who gave her name as Ewa, confirmed the group was demonstrating against climate change and fuel poverty, as well as to highlight the need for renewable energy rather than "expensive and dirty" gas.
Ewa said: "Our motivation for this protest is to try and stop this government from locking us into a dependency on gas for the next 30 years. If billions can be found to bail out corrupt banks then billions can be found to fund a renewable energy economy."
Such an economy would create hundreds of thousands of green jobs, reduce household energy bills and benefit the environment, according to the protest group, who said they had sufficient supplies to stay at the power station for about a week.
Ewa said: "It's unusual that we are linking this directly to fuel poverty. We shouldn't be investing in any gas whatsoever."
Five climate change protesters have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass at the site of a gas-fired power station.
Nottinghamshire police said some of those involved in the protest had scaled buildings at West Burton power station after gaining access to the site at about 1.20am.
A police spokesman said: "Around 10 [protesters] are thought to have climbed the water towers and have secured themselves to restrict their removal. Searches are ongoing to find a number of other people who are also believed to have gained access to the site."
One of the protesters said a total of 17 people had climbed two towers roughly 80 metres apart. Speaking by mobile phone from the site, the woman, who gave her name as Ewa, confirmed the group was demonstrating against climate change and fuel poverty, as well as to highlight the need for renewable energy rather than "expensive and dirty" gas.
Ewa said: "Our motivation for this protest is to try and stop this government from locking us into a dependency on gas for the next 30 years. If billions can be found to bail out corrupt banks then billions can be found to fund a renewable energy economy."
Such an economy would create hundreds of thousands of green jobs, reduce household energy bills and benefit the environment, according to the protest group, who said they had sufficient supplies to stay at the power station for about a week.
Ewa said: "It's unusual that we are linking this directly to fuel poverty. We shouldn't be investing in any gas whatsoever."
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Fuel poverty
29.10.2012 10:41
The link to fuel poverty is a good one. Almost all the increases in utility bills in recent years are due to increases in the price of gas, no matter how many times the Daily Mail claims otherwise. Just £20 or so per year of the average domestic energy bill is spent on renewables.
There is additional money put on fuel bills to fund insulation of houses, particularly aimed at those where the people are not well off (but the elbows of the better off mean they get a fair proportion too). Nothing to do with renewables, but to do with reducing energy consumption. More than the £20 a year which goes to renewables (about £10 of the £20 goes to wind). Good, but being stopped as the plan now is to get people to take out interest bearing loans from banks to pay for energy savings via the Green Deal. A plan which will be a disaster. An amount of money will still be put on bills to fund energy saving in poorer households, the Energy Company Obligation.
There is also additional money put on fuel bills to pay for the EU Emission Trading Scheme, not something I have ever campaigned for.
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fuel poverty - question
29.10.2012 11:15
Other thing that strikes me is that is something is costing more money it's usually because it is using up more resources. So for conservations sake, is the cheapest option not usually the best ?
anarchist
Money and resources.
30.10.2012 09:41
Putting a match to a wide, deep lake of petrol is not an expensive thing to achieve if the petrol cost you nothing to make.
Spending time and effort considering actions, and consequences is more expensive. Robust, risk avoiding strategies make hasty waste more of an effort.
thought
the people are the money
30.10.2012 20:19
You can do lots of political juggling tricks, like subsidising some industries by stealing from others, but the only thing that can reduce the carbon dioxide in the air in any real meaningful way is permanent forest and wild land such as peat land, and less industry and cattle ranching.
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