E.ON gets fingered : NEIN KINGSNORTH!

British Cli­mate Camp activists have tak­en their cam­paign to the Munich offices of E.ON.
For Imme­di­ate release. 14.30 — 22/10/08
E.ON gets fin­gered : NEIN KINGSNORTH!

British Cli­mate Camp (1) activists have tak­en their cam­paign to stop the build­ing of a coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent, UK, to the Ener­gy head­quar­ters of E.ON in Munich, Ger­many (2).

This morn­ing activists involved in the UK Cli­mate Camp coor­di­nat­ed a ‘flash mob’ style action at the office of E.ON Energie. Dressed in splash­es of E.ON red, around thir­ty peo­ple swamped the main entrance of the office to give E.ON the fin­ger. Play­ing on the ‘E.ON F.OFF’ logo (3) from this summer’s Cli­mate Camp the group held their mid­dle fin­gers in the air, send­ing a clear mes­sage that the mul­ti-nation­al is a tar­get across Europe.

“This sum­mer saw a pletho­ra of high­ly effec­tive actions against the ener­gy major in the UK” explained Jim­my Hoover, one of the UK Cli­mate Campers who trav­elled to Munich to coor­di­nate the action. “We want­ed to make it very clear to E.ON that its not just about one week in a field in Kent. We have the means and the moti­va­tion to take this cam­paign to stop Kingsnorth and new coal con­tin­ue all the way home to E.On’s head­quar­ters in Ger­many. Until the plans for this new coal-fired plant are dropped, we will drag E.On’s name through the mud and expose them for being the cli­mate crim­i­nals they are.”

Since this summer’s third and largest Cli­mate Camp, the group have open­ly stat­ed their inten­tion to return to the Hoo penin­su­la in Kent to pre­vent the build­ing of a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion, should it be giv­en plan­ning per­mis­sion by the British gov­ern­ment.

“When you’ve got the world’s top cli­mate sci­en­tist Jim Hansen explain­ing that this one pow­er sta­tion will make extinct up to 400 species (4), you’ve got to ask why E.On would still be push­ing ahead with this act of cli­mate van­dal­ism,” added Mel Evans. “Its clear that E.ON has their prof­its in mind, rather than the pub­lic inter­est and cli­mate secu­ri­ty. With the British tax-pay­er look­ing like­ly to own a 60% stake in the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land – who have pro­vid­ed loans to E.On to build Kingsnorth (5) — I for one don’t want my tax­es being used to trash the cli­mate. That’s why we’ve come here today to make sure they get the mes­sage loud and clear – E.On, F.OFF!”

For high res images go to http://thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/eonmunich/

Notes to the Edi­tor:

(1) www.climatecamp.org.uk

(2) Bri­en­ner Straße 40 80333 München Ger­many +49 (0) 89 — 12 54 – 01 http://www.eon-energie.com/pages/eea_en/index.htm

(3) http://www.flickr.com/photos/monaxle/2739086776/

(4) James Hansen, NASA cli­mate sci­en­tist, esti­mates that if the new coal pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth in Kent goes ahead, it will result in 400 extinct species due to its con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate change. www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/04/climatechange.fossilfuels

(5) In 2007, RBS-NatWest took part in loans to E.ON, the com­pa­ny plan­ning to build Kingsnorth, total­ing $70 bil­lion.

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