Thursday, October 30, 2008

Kingsnorth protest comes to an end
Dozens of eco-activists set foot on the station’s jetty yesterday afternoon, having reached the plant in a nine-boat flotilla led by the Greenpeace’s iconic Rainbow Warrior vessel.
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The breakaway party hoped to beam images of climate change disaster and the words ‘Gordon Bin It’ onto the plant’s walls throughout the night but their generator failed.

Protestor Ben Stewart – one of the Kingsnorth Six acquitted last month of causing criminal damage at the power plant – said: “We had hoped to project images of climate disaster onto the power station all night because a new coal plant here would be a huge blow to the fight against global warming.

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