RECLAIM THE POWER

Join No Dash for Gas for a 4 day camp and
protest at West Burton power station

17th — 20th August 2013

Big deci­sions are being made now about how we’re going to pow­er the UK. The gov­ern­men­t’s pol­i­cy of increas­ing our reliance on gas is push­ing mil­lions into fuel pover­ty. This — cou­pled with ruth­less cuts to essen­tial ser­vices — leaves many with an impos­si­ble choice between heat­ing and eat­ing. And the same pol­i­cy guar­an­tees that we’ll miss even our mod­est car­bon reduc­tion tar­gets. Both the finan­cial and the cli­mate crises are relat­ed to the pur­suit of prof­it above all else, in the inter­ests of the few and at the expense of the many.

We need a win. And one win we need is a secure future for gen­er­a­tions to come, where prof­its don’t trump the pub­lic inter­est and where we have safe, clean ener­gy to meet our needs.

Be part of cre­at­ing some­thing BIG this sum­mer, get involved now and Reclaim The Pow­er.

We can fight back, as the stu­dent, trade union, wom­en’s, dis­abled rights and anti-cuts move­ments have shown us. There has nev­er been a more crit­i­cal time to take action. The solu­tions are there to be grasped.

21 peo­ple went up two chim­neys but 64,000 came down

Last Octo­ber, 21 envi­ron­men­tal activists shut down EDF’s West Bur­ton pow­er sta­tion for a week in protest at the gov­ern­men­t’s Dash for Gas. West Bur­ton is the first of up to 40 new gas fired pow­er sta­tions being planned. With your help, includ­ing a sol­i­dar­i­ty peti­tion signed by 64,000 peo­ple — they fought off EDF’s attempt to sue them for £5 mil­lion.

This sum­mer, inspired by their action, we are build­ing a wide coali­tion of groups and indi­vid­u­als who will be com­ing togeth­er to Reclaim the Pow­er. We’ll plan togeth­er. We’ll put for­ward solu­tions. We’ll cross the bor­der from anger to action. It was peo­ple pow­er that stopped new coal and stalled plans for a third run­way at Heathrow, that made bankers’ greed and tax avoid­ance tox­ic and that is now fight­ing aus­ter­i­ty attacks on work­ers, women, pen­sion­ers and the dis­abled. Togeth­er, we will stop the dash for gas.

Want to be part of cre­at­ing Reclaim The Pow­er? Won­der­ing where we’ll be, how you can get there or what you need to bring? More info to come soon, keep up to date at:

www.nodashforgas.org.uk
info@nodashforgas.org.uk
@nodashforgas