27 August - 2 September, London
With the city lights in sight, you pitch your tent alongside thousands of others. Another future emerges from the ground.
Welcome to the Climate Camp.

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Barefaced bullshit: a sample. One of the Coal Hole’s contacts in Wales (our spies are everywhere) tells us that power company Eon - currently famous for its position in the vanguard of the climate-trashing push for new coal in Britain - are canvassing for customers in a local supermarket in Pontypridd. So far, so repellent. But [...]

Finally, here's the video from the Mili-Band event when over a thousand people went to Kingsnorth to form a giant human chain around the coal-fired power plant. We were have all busy with the actions in Italy and the US last week, so we didn't have time to put this together earlier. But enjoy!

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This is the place to come for legal information about the last Camp (G20 Camp in The City)

FOLLOWING THE RECENT 'Camp in the City'

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Green groups to sue the Treasury over RBS bailout disaster. RBS continues to fund climate change by financing companies and projects involved in developing dirty fossil fuels. Help us green up RBS

'A future for coal is no future for us.' Students from the People & Planet network sent a message loud and clear to Ed Miliband on Saturday 4 July.

This year we will set up the camp together with a mass swoop taking the site.

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OK, so its not Nottinghamshire but UK Coal have just submitted a planning application for an open cast coal mine in the middle of the National Forest! These people obviously have no compuction in destroying anything they can to get at coal. To quote the national forest website: “a new forest in the heart of England. It covers a large part of north west Leicestershire as well as areas within Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Newly planted trees blend with existing woodland to create stunning landscapes and wildlife habitats.” They have planted 7 million trees already but what is the point if vandals like UK Coal can come along and just rip them out of the ground? OK, so they say they will reinstate but that mine will be there scaring the landscape for 4.5 years - a massive hole in the ground 1.5 miles long and half a mile wide, extracting 1.25 million tonnes of coal and 250,000 tonnes of clay. The residents of nearby villages of Measham and Swepstone will have their lives ruined 12 hours a day for 5 days a week and a further 6 hours on Saturday to produce more climate destroying coal. NANC supports the good people of Leicestershire in their fight against this blot on the landscape and destroyer of the climate. And remember folks, open cast mining could be coming near you. Leicestershire today Nottinghamshire tomorrow?

Stop Climate Chaos members Oxfam, WDM, RSPB, People & Planet, NUS, Christian Aid & the WI got together on 4 July to put on the first Mili-band of the summer, at the Kingsnorth summer fête.

Approx 1,000 people gathered in Kent to send a dramatic message to Ed Miliband.

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This week we get a majority world perspective on the climate emergency in an interview with Ricardo Navarro from El Salvador.

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They came, they stood, they formed a giant human chain around Kingsnorth. The Miliband was formed with bodies and yellow sashes, and made up of over a thousand people!

...who made the 2 mile walk in the blistering sun...

...to surround the perimeter fence of Kingsnorth power station...

...with a clear message to the government and E.ON.

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Today we're down at Kingsnorth for the Mili-band - building a human chain around Kingsnorth to say no to dirty coal. It's a fun summer fete for the climate, and we're updating live from the scene...

In a manifesto launched today, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged UK leadership in tackling climate change during the run-up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen this December. Alongside the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband, he has outlined his vision for a new deal where the emissions of developed nations will peak by 2020 (we believe the deal should be no later than 2015) and decline thereafter.

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At the end of the UN Climate Talks in Bonn we get a close reading of the state of play from Third World Network's Meena Raman.

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Lest we forget, just after midnight yesterday, Greenpeace activists boarded a bulk freighter carrying coal to Kingsnorth power station in Kent. After stopping the massive ship in its tracks with flares and speedboats, a number of the activists swam across the water and boarded the vessel, climbing the huge, “Eon”-emblazoned funnel and foremast. The climbers [...]

Some good news from our friends in the north today: the proposed eviction of anti-open cast campaigners from the Mainshill Solidarity Camp in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, has not come to pass. The camp was set up on Friday, to protest the proposed mining of 1.7 million tones of coal from the 340-acre site in the Douglas [...]

Last night Greenpeace volunteers boarded E.ON's moving bulk freighter Sir Charles Parsons, carrying thousands of tonnes of coals to restock the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station.

They intercepted the freighter using rigid inflatable speedboats just after midnight as the ship sped up the River Medway towards Kingsnorth, then attached climbing ladders to the vessel and scaled the 15 metre hull. Three teams comprising nine people succeeded in boarding the ship. They then scaled the ship's huge funnel and the towering foremast to stop the ship from unloading.

The ship is now docked at the Kingsnorth quayside, but no coal has yet been unloaded. The intention is to delay the offloading of the coal cargo for as long as possible. Police are on the scene and have already made six arrests, but we still have four volunteers aboard with enough food and water to stay for several days, if necessary.

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Around midnight three of my colleagues eased themselves off one of the Greenpeace inflatable speedboats and into the cold water of the river Medway in Kent.

It's difficult to imagine what must be going through your mind in that situation - in the dark, in the cold water, with the looming lights of a large ship getting closer. But however difficult to imagine it is, it must have been even more difficult to do, because Cathy, Emma and Hannah knew that they were swimming out into the channel to block a coal freighter carrying twenty thousand tonnes of coal from docking at the Kingsnorth jetty.

As they made their swim - on one of the shortest nights of the year - more Greenpeace volunteers flagged the ship down with flares and banners, pulled alongside and clambering up the steep metal sides, across the deck, and on up the mast and funnel. They secured themselves in place and waited for the calls from the morning news shows.

The funnel carries the logo of E.ON, the German energy company who operate the power station at Kingsnorth. E.ON would like to build another coal-fired power station on the site, and the place should be a building site by now. But the plans have been opposed by environmental experts and campaigners, met with indecision from government, and been delayed again and again.

Despite recent government assurances that any new coal fired power stations will capture the carbon they release into the atmosphere, the devil in the detail means that a new plant at Kingsnorth would still pump three quarters of its carbon into the atmosphere - six million tonnes of CO2 a year, a phenomenal amount.

In terms of greenhouse gases, coal is the dirtiest fuel there is. Coal plants lead to carbon emissions which drive climate change - which threatens people and property around the world from increased risk of flooding, drought, water shortage and extreme weather events. We want to see strong government leadership on energy policy in the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit in December. All of this is why we intervene to stop dirty coal power from becoming the future of Britain's energy.

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