Ratcliffe on Soar installing new fences — in time for the Great Climate Swoop

Rat­cliffe on Soar are cur­rent­ly installing new perime­ter fences (12ft chain link).

Rat­cliffe on Soar are cur­rent­ly installing new perime­ter fences (12ft chain link).

As I went past on the train today they were installing new met­al fences (about 12ft tall) near the train line. The fence is met­al met­al chain-link (the new­er heavy duty design) and has ver­ti­cal wire run­ning accross the top 4ft sec­tion (does­n’t look to be elec­tro­cut­ed or razor wire). They are also installing large amounts of portable pedes­tri­an bar­ri­er the oth­er side.

In this a coin­ci­dence? It may be part of the ongo­ing works at the pow­er sta­tion and part of the com­ple­tion of new train sta­tion placed next to pow­er sta­tion (East Mid­lands Park­way). After cli­mate camp went to Drax they installed new fences at a cost of £3-£4Million (source — tour guide at Drax pow­er sta­tion).

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http://www.thegreatclimateswoop.org/

17–18th Octo­ber 2009

Don’t be con­fused — 2009 is just anoth­er year of cli­mate talks, in which gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions will con­tin­ue busi­ness as usu­al and tell us how a load of cor­rupt (but prof­itable) trad­ing is in fact a real attempt to save the world.

To solve cli­mate change we’re going to have to get togeth­er and make a real noise. CO2 lev­els are ris­ing 20,000 times faster than at any point in life’s aston­ish­ing bil­lion year his­to­ry and coal is the biggest source of emis­sions. If we burn all the coal in the ground we’re toast. No but­ter, no jam, just toast. So stop­ping the burn­ing of coal in the rapid­ly warm­ing world is a good place to start.

That’s why on the 17th & 18th Octo­ber 2009 we’re hav­ing a mega get togeth­er to close one of the UK’s biggest coal fired pow­er sta­tions, E.ON’s Rat­cliffe-on-Soar in Not­ting­ham.

Anoth­er end of the world is pos­si­ble.