A debate on climate change and the future of energy
13th November, 7pm

Sunlight Centre, 105 Richmond Road,
Gillingham ME7 1LX

Refreshments provided

Join a 'question time' event featuring a panel of local people, policy makers and experts on coal, climate change, Kent and the energy debate.

This is your chance to ask questions and have your say on the local and global concerns surrounding plans for a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth.

The panel includes:

Paul Clark MP for Gillingham
Dr Mark Avery RSPB
Benedict Southworth World Development Movement
Andy Rogers Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway

To book your free place call 020 7820 4900 or email [email protected]

In Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle this morning, the PM has created a new department of Climate and Energy, with Ed Miliband in charge.

A few reactions:

Greenpeace Executive Director John Sauven:

"For the last ten years this government has dithered on climate change, offering us inspiring rhetoric but little in the way of real action. Bringing energy and climate together at last reflects the urgency of the threat we face from climate change." "Hopefully Ed Miliband will champion efforts to boost renewable energy end energy efficiency, as part of a plan to create the green collar jobs that Britain has so far lost to our European neighbours. The first test of his credibility will be whether he stops the UK's first new coal fired power station in over thirty years at Kingsnorth in Kent."

Julian Oram, head of policy at the World Development Movement:

“The government’s policies thus far on climate change and energy have been at loggerheads. In creating this department, Gordon Brown seems to have recognised that critical decisions on controversial climate issues, such as whether to back a new coal power station at Kingsnorth, are directly linked to its role in exacerbating or averting runaway climate change. This new department must be the department of new clarity on climate change and energy, not contradiction.”

as to the impact on Kingsnorth, and coal in the UK, only time will tell.

Hundreds will mark the centenary of the Suffragette Rush by holding the women-led Climate Rush – Monday 13th October, 5.30pm

A women-led rally is being held in Parliament Square to mark the centenary of the Suffragette Rush. The Climate Rush will be led by women concerned by the inadequacy of political action on the dangers of climate change. They will arrive in Parliament Square at 5.30pm on Monday 13th October; exactly one hundred years after over 40 Suffragettes were arrested for their attempt to enter The Houses of Parliament.

In keeping with the spirit of the Suffragette Rush, the young women organisers invite men and women alike to stand together with three key demands:

1. No airport expansion.
2. No new coal-fired power stations.
3. The creation of policy in line with the most recent climate science and research.

For more info, see the website: www.climaterush.co.uk

As the campaign to stop new coal builds momentum, the number of websites and campaigns targetting coal across the UK continues to grow.

Yorkshire Against New Coal (YANC) is part of a campaign to oppose coal developments in Yorkshire - including an open cast mine near the Fairburn Ings bird sanctuary, near Castleford in West Yorkshire. YANC is campaigning to stop this proposal. Open cast mines not only destroy countryside, wildlife habitats and people’s lives - they are helping to push climate change to an irreversible point. You can check out their news, and support the campaign at http://yancnews.wordpress.com/

Telford Against New Coal (TANC) is a campaign group dedicated to calling a halt to the extraction and burning of coal in Telford, Shropshire and the UK as a whole.

Leave it in the ground - a quote from James Hansen on what we should do with coal - is a network of groups campaigning against coal, "As a network, Leave it in the Ground is run by and for the groups that make it up, existing as a way to establish common ground, facilitate networking and share information and skills". Visit their pages and get involved at: http://leaveitintheground.org.uk/

The most readable blog about new coal is the trendy Coal Hole website - find out why Dr James Hansen is the man, watch the latest videos and read the five best reasons for coal, and why they're still really really bad.

The coal hole can be found at: http://thecoalhole.org/

To make it easy to keep up to date with everthing we have collected together all the news from all the sites campaigning on coal in a news feed. You can even subscribe to updates by email, which will send you an email once a day with any updates from the coal websites:

If you have a blog, website, campaign or page that you would like us to link to, or include in our feed leave a comment on this post.