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Coal power station shut down © Greenpeace/Cobb Greenpeace climate change campaigners shut down one of Britain's dirtiest power stations. Early this morning 30 of our volunteers invaded the Didcot coal-fired power station in Oxfordshire to shut it down. The Didcot site is the second most polluting power station in Britain and we targeted this power station because – like most of Britain’s power stations – it’s an energy dinosaur. Most British power stations waste two-thirds of the energy they generate in the form of heat escaping up their cooling towers, making a massive contribution to climate change. By locating smaller generators close to where energy is used, the heat created in power stations can be captured and used to heat our homes.

The volunteers stopped the huge conveyor belts that carry coal into the plant by hitting the emergency stop buttons and chaining themselves to the machinery. Another group climbed the 1052 stairs to the top of the chimney and then made short work of the 200 metre high smoke stack painting “Blair’s legacy” down the side. The climate campaigners are demanding that the government phases out these coal fired power stations and instead invests in localised - or “decentralised” – power generation, which is far more efficient. This type of ‘decentralised energy’ is already working in many European countries and powering cities like Copenhagen and Malmo. Along with a range of renewable energy technologies it is the key to modernising our electricity industry and slashing its massive contribution to

global climate change. Woking Council has already reduced its carbon footprint by 77% through decentralised energy technologies. The fact that outrageously inefficient coal fired power stations like this still exist after a decade with New Labour in power is evidence of Tony Blair’s failure to tackle climate change. Under Tony Blair: • The use of coal for electricity generation has gone up from 47.3 to 52.5 million tonnes a year; • Between the second quarters of 2005 and 2006 coal-burn for electricity rose by 10.5%; and • UK Co2 emissions have risen since 1997, from 549 million tonnes Co2 to 561.5 million tonnes of Co2. Co2 emissions in 2005 were only 5.5% below 1990 levels,

way off the government’s target of a 20% cut by 2010. All the volunteers are still on site.Peter H

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i cart get the link to work on this help pleasepeter VV <swpgh01 wrote: Coal power station shut down © Greenpeace/Cobb Greenpeace climate change campaigners shut down one of Britain's dirtiest power stations. Early this morning 30 of our volunteers invaded the Didcot coal-fired power station in Oxfordshire to shut it down. The Didcot site is the second most polluting power station in

Britain and we targeted this power station because – like most of Britain’s power stations – it’s an energy dinosaur. Most British power stations waste two-thirds of the energy they generate in the form of heat escaping up their cooling towers, making a massive contribution to climate change. By locating smaller generators close to where energy is used, the heat created in power stations can be captured and used to heat our homes. The volunteers stopped the huge conveyor belts that carry coal into the plant by hitting the emergency stop buttons and chaining themselves to the machinery. Another group climbed the 1052 stairs to the top of the chimney and then made short work of the 200 metre high smoke stack painting “Blair’s legacy” down the side. The climate campaigners are demanding that the government phases out these coal fired power stations and instead invests in localised - or “decentralised” – power generation, which is far more efficient. This type of ‘decentralised energy’ is already working in many European countries and powering cities like Copenhagen and Malmo. Along with a range of renewable energy technologies it is the key to modernising our electricity industry and slashing its massive contribution to global climate change. Woking Council has already reduced its carbon footprint by 77% through decentralised energy technologies. The fact that outrageously inefficient coal fired power stations like this still exist after a decade with New Labour in power is evidence of Tony Blair’s failure to tackle climate change. Under Tony Blair: • The use of coal for electricity generation has gone up from 47.3 to 52.5 million tonnes a year; • Between the second quarters of 2005 and 2006 coal-burn for electricity rose by 10.5%; and • UK Co2 emissions have risen since 1997, from 549 million tonnes Co2 to 561.5 million tonnes of Co2. Co2 emissions in 2005 were only 5.5% below 1990 levels, way off the government’s target of a 20% cut by 2010. All the volunteers are still on site. Peter H Send instant messages to your online

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Sorry to hear that, it works fine for me so maybe a problem with your browser?, anyhoo the URL is : http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/climate.cfm?ucidparam=20061102083610 & CFID=5851601 & CFTOKEN=90973999 The Valley Vegan...............louis stott <lsstott wrote: i cart get the link to work on this help pleasepeter VV <swpgh01 wrote: Coal power station shut down © Greenpeace/Cobb Greenpeace climate change campaigners shut down one of Britain's dirtiest power stations. Early this morning 30 of our volunteers invaded the Didcot coal-fired power station in Oxfordshire to shut it down. The Didcot site is the second most polluting power station in Britain and we targeted this power station because – like most of Britain’s power stations – it’s an energy dinosaur. Most British power stations waste two-thirds of the energy they generate in the form of heat escaping up their cooling towers, making a massive contribution to climate change. By locating smaller generators close to where energy is used, the heat created in power stations can be captured and used to heat our homes. The volunteers stopped the huge conveyor belts that carry coal into the plant by hitting the emergency stop buttons and chaining themselves to the machinery. Another group climbed the 1052 stairs to the top of the chimney and then made short work of the 200 metre high smoke stack painting “Blair’s legacy” down the side. The climate campaigners are demanding that the government phases out these coal fired power stations and instead invests in localised - or “decentralised” – power generation, which is far more efficient. This type of ‘decentralised energy’ is already working in many European countries and powering cities like Copenhagen and Malmo. Along with a range of renewable energy technologies it is the key to modernising our electricity industry and slashing its massive contribution to global climate change. Woking Council has

already reduced its carbon footprint by 77% through decentralised energy technologies. The fact that outrageously inefficient coal fired power stations like this still exist after a decade with New Labour in power is evidence of Tony Blair’s failure to tackle climate change. Under Tony Blair: • The use of coal for electricity generation has gone up from 47.3 to 52.5 million tonnes a year; • Between the second quarters of 2005 and 2006 coal-burn for electricity rose by 10.5%; and • UK Co2 emissions have risen since 1997, from 549 million tonnes Co2 to 561.5 million tonnes of Co2. Co2 emissions in 2005 were only 5.5% below 1990 levels, way off the government’s target

of a 20% cut by 2010. All the volunteers are still on site. Peter H Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger. Try the all-new Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" – The Wall Street Journal Peter H

 

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