E.on has shelved its planned new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth! Marking a huge campaign victory for all of us in the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, and beyond, news came through last night that the energy company is delaying a decision on Kingsnorth for three years!  

 

From a WDM press release: Late last night, EON confirmed that they had shelved plans for the controversial Kingsnorth coal plant in Kent . The news of the victory for the 'Stop Kingsnorth' campaigners was received by text at a coal event in Rochester hosted jointly by the World Development Movement and the local campaigning group, Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway, who have been working closely for nearly two years. 

 

Kirsty Wright, climate campaigner at the World Development Movement said: "This is an huge victory for campaigners in Kent , across the UK and most of all for the world’s poorest people, whose lives would have been devastated by the proposed power station’s contribution to climate change. The new power station would have emitted more CO2 than Tanzania, and could have caused 20,000 climate refugees and meant that 100, 000 more people losing their dry water season supply. "It's not yet clear what the government's official reaction to this news will be, but UK 's already massive climate debt to the developing world means that the UK must radically reduce its carbon emissions now. The UK government must rule out new coal in the UK straight away, ahead of crucial international talks at Copenhagen . We can’t rely on energy companies to do it because of concern about profits in the recession. This is about people not profits. "The Kingsnorth issue has been an embarrassment for the UK government's claim to be a leader on tackling climate change. Ed Miliband must now focus on investment in renewable energy and abandon plans for new coal power in the UK .”

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