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> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:51:25 +0100
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> Subject: Re: Coal Train Defendants Appeal
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> To draw attention to this again, and also, to this, which I think is related to what Kelvin, and then Paul talks about below:
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> http://www.onehundredmonths.org/
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> From: Discussion list on participatory geographies [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kelvin Mason
> Sent: 25 August 2008 11:00
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> Subject: Coal Train Defendants Appeal
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> On 13th June 2008 protestors halted a coal train carrying fuel for Drax power station (Indymedia UK, 13 June 2008). Drax, which lies just to the south of the Yorkshire town of Selby, burns around 9 million tonnes of coal per year and emits some 21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide; it produces almost 4 per cent of the nation's CO2, as much as a quarter of all the nation's cars put together (Independent, 31 August 2006). In fact, Drax is the largest single polluter in the UK and hence a target for climate change protesters opposed to the government’s disastrous energy policy, which hinges on coal and the ‘scam’ of technologically and economically viable ‘carbon capture and storage’ (Guardian, 18 March 2008)
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> The Drax protesters were arrested and 29 of them face criminal proceedings. The District Judge sent the case to crown court because he thought it too serious for the magistrate’s court: the maximum sentence in the magistrate’s court is 6 months. A number of the defendants are going to plead not guilty so that the case - including all the climate change evidence – can be put to a jury. One of the defendants, Dr Paul Chatterton of the Faculty of Environment in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds writes:
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> ‘Why did I get involved in stopping a train of coal going to Drax power station? Over the last 10 years as a teacher and researcher in Geography I have closely observed what damaging effects we are having on our social and ecological system. I took part in this action as a rational and considered response to my assessment of the situation we all face. The conclusion which the scientific community has come to, and with which I concur, is that we are facing the real prospect of dangerous and life threatening climate change in the next few decades. We are the last generation left that has the opportunity to act - more starkly we have about 100 months before the tipping point into rapid global climatic change. As this last generation, it is our imperative to act - reason and fact led me to it. What choice have we left in face of government policy that seeks to lock us into a high carbon energy economy and unabated growth of new coal fired power stations? The growth of new coal is unquestionably the quickest route into the climate disaster ahead. I ask you, in the face of this evidence, what would you do? Direct action has become a matter of survival for us all in the face of the unreason of big business and government.’
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> The Drax defendants face custodial sentences. They need help with expenses so that the case can be heard. Peace News has launched an appeal and you can donate:
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> Account Name: Midlands Conservation Club
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> Sort Code: 30-98-00 (Lloyds TSB)
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> Account No: 291140002
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> Thank you in advance
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> Kelvin Mason
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> Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
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> Aberystwyth University
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> Tel: 01970 622 610
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> The Drax action
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> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401022.html and http://thecoalhole.org/tv-drax-coverage/)
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/13/activists.climatechange
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> http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Campaigners-target-Drax-coal-train.4183101.jp
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> Press coverage of Drax court appearance
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> http://www.peacenews.info/news/article/425
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/18/climatechange.energy
> http://www.selbytimes.co.uk/district-news/Train-protesters-to-face-crown.4401184.jp
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> UK energy policy, coal, carbon capture and storage
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> http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/10/09/the-new-coal-age/
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/05/kingsnorthclimatecamp.climatechange
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> http://thecoalhole.org/
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