British Protesters Arrested Trying to Break Into Coal Plant. AFP, August 9, 2008."British police on Saturday arrested 50 environmental campaigners as they tried to break into a power plant in protest at plans to build a new generation of coal-fired electricity plants. Police used batons to prevent protesters from entering Kingsnorth power station in Kent, where about 2,000 people gathered [as part of the] week-long [Climate Camp 08] protest... E.On, the German energy giant that operates the plant, denied campaigners' claims that they had succeeded in disrupting the operation of the plant... Playing musical instruments and waving colourful banners, some 600 people including women and children had marched to the main gates of the power station surrounded by a cordon of police. E.ON is planning to construct two new cleaner coal units on the Kingsnorth site, which it claims will be 20 percent less polluting than conventional power stations. They would be the first coal-fired power stations to be built in Britain for 24 years."
2008-08-10
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