On July 4, thousands of people from the UK will form a human Mili-Band, surrounding Kingsnorth power station in Kent, in opposition to building a new coal-fired power plant. We’ll be telling the Climate and Energy Minister Ed Miliband that until he agrees to stop all CO2 emissions from dirty coal fired plants like Kingsnorth from day one, the future of the planet and the people who live on it hangs in the balance.

Already, climate change is devastating the lives of poor people around the world. If Ed is serious about tackling global poverty and climate change, then dirty coal at Kingsnorth must not go ahead. Ed has a choice: either to be a hero or a hypocrite. He cannot expect his arguments for a fair and safe global deal at the crucial climate negotiations in Copenhagen to be taken seriously if he’s planning to build new dirty coal fired power stations at home. We are not going to stop until he makes the right choice.

People gathering on July 4 are representing a diverse range of communities and organisations, including Oxfam, Christian Aid, People and Planet, The Women’s Institute, the World Development Movement, National Union of Students, Woodcraft Folk, WeCan, RSPB and Greenpeace.

Come and join us and help send the message to Ed that dirty coal must stop.

You can book a place on the following websites:

Greenpeace - Oxfam - World Development Movement

"Kingsnorth is a terrible idea. One power plant with a lifetime of several decades will destroy the efforts of millions of citizens to reduce their emissions"

James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies

Kingsnorth coal power station is located in Medway, Kent. Energy company E.ON are proposing to replace the existing coal power station with a new one. Coal is the most polluting way of generating electricity and is a step backward in the UK's commitment to fight climate change.

"EON's new power station planned for Kingsnorth will output more CO₂ each year than the whole of Ghana"
World Development Movement

The Kingsnorth proposal is the first in a string of possible new coal power stations that energy companies want to build in the UK.

This site includes updates from the campaign against Kingsnorth and new coal across the UK, resources for activists - including a briefing about Kingsnorth and tricky questions and answers, news from the Climate Camp, a map of new coal projects in the UK and reports from local residents opposed to the power station.

There is information and links to the wide range of organisations campaigning against coal, including Greenpeace, Oxfam, the World Development Movement, Stop Climate Chaos and many others. We also have all the latest news from the local campaigns against coal up and down the country.

You can also watch our film Kingsnorth: a local issue goes global, which was narrated by Rob Newman.