Climate Swoop
Vote on whether to go for Drax or Ratcliffe on Soar.
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adam2
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I cant see the point in a public vote on the matter, and would suspect that the real target of any direct action will be kept secret until the last moment, not placed on the internet.
In a perfect world coal should be left in the ground since it is a carbon intensive fuel.
In practice, without a revolution, some coal burning is inevitable at least in the short term, all we can hope for is a reduction in the amount burnt.
It would in fact make more sense to close down older, smaller and less efficient coal burning plant first, Drax should be the last to close, not the first !
To close down Drax would probably INCREASE carbon emmisions at least in the short term, since the coal burnt in older, smaller, less eficient plant would increase.
It would be a bit like banning the largest aircraft, and making everyone fly in smaller less eficient aircraft instead.
In a perfect world coal should be left in the ground since it is a carbon intensive fuel.
In practice, without a revolution, some coal burning is inevitable at least in the short term, all we can hope for is a reduction in the amount burnt.
It would in fact make more sense to close down older, smaller and less efficient coal burning plant first, Drax should be the last to close, not the first !
To close down Drax would probably INCREASE carbon emmisions at least in the short term, since the coal burnt in older, smaller, less eficient plant would increase.
It would be a bit like banning the largest aircraft, and making everyone fly in smaller less eficient aircraft instead.
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biffvernon
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Adam, there's an explanation in Tim Webb's piece in today's Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... est-talent
moreLast summer it was Kingsnorth coal plant. The year before, it was Heathrow. This year, the public will decide what the target of environmental protest should be, by voting in what organisers of Climate Camp call Britain's Got Direct Action.
The "winner" will be announced at this year's annual week-long eco-fest near London at the end of August and then subjected to a Great Climate Swoop in October when specially trained direct action campaigners will try to shut it down.
From today, people will be able to vote at www.thegreatclimateswoop.org whether to target Drax, the Yorkshire coal plant and the UK's single biggest emitter of carbon, or the second largest coal plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, near Nottingham, run by E.ON.
At the Climate Camp near London this month, four-day courses will be on offer to teach non-violent direct action tactics, like how to lock yourself to railings or evade security, which will be employed against the unlucky winner of the online poll.
Organisers hope that by aping the format of reality TV and talent shows, they will be able to broaden the appeal of the environmental movement. A spokesman, Peter McDonnell, said that Climate Camp wanted to shed its image of being made up of "dangerous radicals and middle-class kids" and move into the mainstream.