E.ON Targeted in Sweden in Solidarity with the Climate Camp

29.09.2008
An E.ON facil­i­ty in the work­ing class dis­trict of Moll­e­van­gen, Mal­mo was tar­gat­ed to high­light E.ON’s plans to build the UK’s first new coal fired pow­er sta­tion for 30 years.

Despite E.ON work­ing exten­sive­ly on renew­ables and reduc­ing car­bon emis­sions in Swe­den, the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to push coal in the UK.

The build­ing of Kingsnorth coal fired pow­er sta­tion on the Hoo penin­su­lar in Kent will cause res­pi­ra­to­ry prob­lems and haz­ardous wastes in the local area, raise the coun­try’s emis­sions to unsus­tain­able lev­els, swerve ener­gy sup­ply into non-renew­able dirty fos­sil fuels rather than renew­ables, and feed a com­mu­ni­ty-frac­tur­ing and pol­lut­ing glob­al coal mar­ket which along with the expan­sion of oth­er fos­sil fuels threat­ens the ecosys­tems of the plan­et.

The cam­paign against kingsnorth, like the poten­tial effects of the 8 new coal fired pow­er sta­tions the UK gov­ern­ment could sanc­tion this Autumn, is glob­al.

Swedish sol­i­dar­i­ty steps up to sup­port this cam­paign in the UK.

The grafit­ti is at a promi­nent inter­sec­tion in the city and will be seen by thou­sands of peo­ple who will ques­tion E.ON’s green spin and con­tra­dic­tion between its’ work in Swe­den and its new coal plans for the UK.

For more infor­ma­tion about the stop kingsnorth cam­paign see www.climatecamp.org.uk