Police make 13 arrests at Climate Camp protest

Thirteen eco-campaigners have been arrested since the start of the Climate Camp, police have confirmed.

The protestors were handcuffed at the makeshift Dux Court Road camp on the Hoo Peninsula between Thursday July 31 and Monday.

Eight activists have subsequently been charged with offences ranging from obstructing police to possession of a bladed instrument.

Brown's CO2 hysteria costs a tiny community 140 jobs?

Instead of employing 240 people at build-out and using up to 1,600 acre-feet of water a year, the McCloud plant would shrink to 350,000 square feet, provide jobs for 100 and use 600 acre-feet a year, the company announced in May.
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Tuesday’s news came a week after state Attorney General Jerry Brown warned Siskiyou County officials that he would sue if global warming isn’t addressed in plans to build the Nestle plant.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Should McCain join the House Oil Party?

There are no down sides to a McCain campaign visit to Capitol Hill. He’d get great press, he would underscore Democratic obstructionism on energy, he would demonstrate party unity, and he would put pressure on Obama to respond with something other than tire gauges and cuts in electricity.