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Protesters Gather At Power Plant

by Dave Keating | August 4, 2008 at 12:24 am

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Hundreds of protestors are gathering in a field near the proposed site of a new coal-fired power station in Kingsnorth, Ubited Kingdom. Some of the protestors are violating their bail conditions by being there and risk facing jail time.

A group of environmental campaigners are to risk jail today when they break bail conditions to attend this year's Camp for Climate Action.
Environmental campaigners march towards Kingsnorth Power Station

The Government is currently considering an application from energy company E.On to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth.

Hundreds of protestors have gathered in a field near to the site of the proposed power station and will run workshops and deliver speeches on climate change.

And at around 2pm today the five - who were part of a 20-strong gathering arrested in June when they stopped a coal train on the way to Britain's biggest power station, Drax - will come onto the site, thereby breaching their bail conditions.

The three men and two women - Ellen Potts, Oli Rodker, Johnathan Stevenson, Paul Morozzo and Mel Evans - say they feel it is their duty to risk jail with the protest.