Monday, October 29, 2012

United Kingdom: Climate activists occupy West Burton gas power station

Guardian: Around 20 climate change protesters have seriously disrupted operations at one of the UK's new generation of gas-fired power stations at West Burton in Nottinghamshire. Police have made five arrests but climbing parties from the campaign group No Dash for Gas successfully scaled two 91m (300ft) concrete cooling towers overnight, securing themselves on ledges with supplies for a week. One of the group tweeted exuberantly with accompanying pictures: "Guess where we woke up this morning! Dawn...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/29/climate-activists-west-burton-gas
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/pictures/2012/10/29/1351507861319/No-Dash-For-Gas-protester-008.jpg

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