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New Coal? You must be choking!
31 March 2008
Fossil fools day protest with a circus atmosphere. Photo and interview opportunity: Tuesday 1 April, 8am – 9.00am, Outside BERR, 1 Victoria Street.
Kate Blagojevic
Press officer, World Development Movement
0207 820 4900/4913, 07711 875 345, Email:
Up to 100 World Development Movement supporters will be campaigning outside BERR’s offices, from 8am on Tuesday 1 April. The campaigners will be juggling coal and wearing John Hutton ‘jester’ masks and hats, will call on Gordon Brown to take charge of John Hutton’s rogue coal plans and launch a coal power strategy review to consider the climate impact of going back to dirty coal.
This protest comes a day after energy giant E.ON said John Hutton should delay the decision on the plans to build a coal fire power station in Kingsnorth in Kent. E.ON wants the government to postpone the decision until after the consultation into carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been completed.
Benedict Southworth, director of the World Development Movement said:
“John Hutton must not be a fossil fool, and force the UK to become reliant on the dirtiest fuel known to man. He must freeze his support for new coal power. If he irresponsibly pushes his plans forward, he will entrench the deep cabinet divide over reverting to coal energy and the government will be in turmoil over coal.
“Gordon Brown must take charge of his divided cabinet and heal the growing rift between his government departments. The only sensible course of action now is to call a coal power review that will consider the climate impact of going back to dirty coal.
“And Brown must remember that this is not only a decision that will affect the UK, but will have huge consequences for the world’s poor who will be hit first and worst by climate change.”
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Kate Blagojevic
Press officer, World Development Movement
0207 820 4900/4913, 07711 875 345, Email:
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