48hrs of Action against E.ON and New Coal

Fri­day 28th and Sat­ur­day 29th Novem­ber 2008

The UK Gov­ern­ment is call­ing for an 80% reduc­tion in car­bon emis­sions by 2050, we are call­ing for 48 hours of action against E.ON and new coal NOW.

It’s easy enough to set a tar­get that’s 42 years away, but we don’t stand a rapid­ly melt­ing snow­bal­l’s chance of achiev­ing it if the gov­ern­ment give the green light to new coal fired pow­er sta­tions (7 are in the plan­ning stages, with E.ON’s new Kingsnorth being first up) and keep dish­ing out sub­si­dies to new coal mines. Coal is the dirt­i­est fuel there is, so while the gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues with busi­ness-as-usu­al through the last 100 months we have to make a dif­fer­ence on cli­mate change, we call for 48 hours of action against new coal – now!

Join us in say­ing ‘No to New Coal’: get your friends togeth­er and plan an action for your area. Go stick­er­ing, blockad­ing, serv­ing direct action warn­ing notices at sup­ply chain premis­es, organ­ise an aware­ness rais­ing talk, hang a ban­ner, get cre­ative on the streets, the options are end­less. Get togeth­er, get cre­ative, and plan an action!

On Fri­day you could vis­it the Coal Author­i­ty, E.ON offices, UK Coal offices or Glob­al Coal Man­age­ment offices, to name but a few. Or take aim at their investors or parts of their sup­ply chain. On the Sat­ur­day you could take action at 2nd round FA Cup match­es spon­sored by E.ON. Togeth­er, we’ll raise aware­ness about killer coal, and we’ll say loud and clear that we won’t stand for new coal — at Kingsnorth or any­where else.

For more infor­ma­tion vis­it — http://www.e‑onf-off.org.uk/ — where a list of poten­tial tar­gets, action ideas and plen­ty of resources will fol­low short­ly.

This day of action is sup­port­ed by The Camp for Cli­mate Action, Ris­ing Tide, Plane Stu­pid and Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change.