Saturday 8th December - Worldwide Climate Change protest - UK pushing for Climate Bill.
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
Over 50 countries participated in rallys to protest no action being taken against climate change as the UN talks take place in Bali. In the UK, nearly 8,000 people turned out for the protest, taking part in talks, pickets, a cycle ride and walk through london. 8,000 is a small number in comparison to the millions who live in London alone (especially consiering there was over 1 million for Iraq march).
Kyoto Now:http://youtube.com/watch?v=o1ykJKKolx8
UN talks were said to be 'a breakthrough' in actioan against climate change. Although experiencing much resistence from the US, an agreement was reached and will be fine tuned between now and 2009 in order to begin 'post-2012'
In relation to Climate Bill and Britain meeting its climate targets:
As of today, Thursday 3rd January, a new coal power station in Kent is being built - the first in nearly 25 years. Council is supporting this decision as E.ON claim another power station would be demolished and it's replacement will be 20% cleaner. Ben Stuart, Greenpeace, claims the new plant will produce 8.5 million tonnes CO2 per year. Even though there has been nearly 10,000 complaints, E.ON claimed today they had still only received only around 8 complaints and with no council objection, the plant is likely to go ahead. (info heard on radio 5L)
