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New Coal? No Way!
1 April 2008
World Development Movement demonstration outside BERR
Today at 8am, to mark Fossil Fools Day, a global day of action against fossil fuels, World Development Movement campaigners juggled coal outside John Hutton’s office, wearing John Hutton ‘jester’ masks and hats, calling on Gordon Brown to take charge of John Hutton’s rogue coal plans. The activists demanded the government 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’s new coal plans are a joke. He must abandon his support for new coal power. If he irresponsibly pushes his plans forward, he will deepen the cabinet divide and the government’s energy plans will be a laughing stock. “Gordon Brown needs to heal the growing rift between his government departments and 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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Notes to editors
- The World Development Movement is taking part in the Fossil Fools global day of action, for a full round up of actions, see Fossilfoolsday.org.uk
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