Climate camp set up outside court — Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station action necessity

Cli­mate Change Tri­al Opens

The tri­al of the eleven cli­mate change activists who shut down Rat­cliffe-on-Soar pow­er sta­tion on April 10th 2007 began today Mon­day 14th Jan at Not­ting­ham Mag­is­trates Court

Over 30 peo­ple, con­cerned about cli­mate chaos, held a demon­stra­tion out­side the court in sup­port of the defen­dants at 9.30 this morn­ing

BBC and ITN cam­era crews were there to film and inter­view.

The pros­e­cu­tion com­plet­ed giv­ing its evi­dence today and the evi­dence for the defence will be heard tomor­row.

The Tri­al is being heard before a Dis­trict Judge and is expect­ed to last 3 days.

http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk

Day 1 report
Day 2 report
Day 3 report

Judge­ment expect­ed 25th Feb­ru­ary.

Orig­i­nal action report and as part of Spring into Action.