Packing Heat

For a moment there from the thumbnail I thought she actually *was* reading a copy of Heat ;)

Here at Impact Recycling we are business as normal. We are based on the same estate as the power station and would like our clients to know you can still bring your Plastic and other types of recyclable waste to us as normal.

yeah yeah Cath, tell it to the local radio.

I bet that book is not printed on recycled paper or with bio inks, type set on a wind power PC or MAC.

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH

I see that Grain are running two units now to make up for the load at kingsnorth, well done greenpeace, you are causing the creation of loads more pollution!!

maybe we can use new technology to capture all their hot air: Combined Heat & Posturing?

Ane huththiye

Did you remember to switch your TV off standby before setting off this morning?

She cant read lol

Well done Greenpeace. Direct Action counts ... and those volunyeers are brave and deserving of our support.

Congratulations ... let's hope the Prime Minister and his advisors hear .... or brave 'Anonymous''s children will pay the price your action is attempting to minimise.

Hey you Greenpeace Knobs, get a life and get a real job!! Too bad the coal didn't land on your head when you switched off the emergency button! Shame LOL :-)

Those greenpeace helmets helmets grow on trees?

While I feel that Greenpeace peddle a warmed over politics free liberalism I have to say some of the anti posts are from complete morons.

"I bet that book is not printed on recycled paper or with bio inks, type set on a wind power PC or MAC.

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH"
Oh right yeah, and anti-apartheid activists in south africa should have avoided all state provided public transport or healthcare because it was based on an unjust state. Yeah, right, anyone in favour of sustainability should sit in a forest living on berries right? It's not our individual purchases that are the problem, it's that we have a society based on the making of money. Externalities are intrinsic as you make more money without dealing with them. You can't ethically shop your way out of capitalism, only stupid hippies believe that.

"Hey you Greenpeace Knobs, get a life and get a real job!! Too bad the coal didn't land on your head when you switched off the emergency button! Shame LOL :-)"

Well the LOL and smiley say it all really. I have a 'real' job, presumably that automatically makes it fine that I want to replace capitalist society with an ecologically dound participatory democracy? Do you even have opposable thumbs?

"Those greenpeace helmets helmets grow on trees?"
I refer you to my first answer, with an added suggestion that you study your immediate family tree. It appears to have become entangled. Your parents aren't known as Sister-Mummy and Brother-Daddy are they?

thats right stop kingsnorth from running just so all the oil power station start up (GRAIN) WELL DONE GREENPR**KS you made more pollution!!

An ecologically sound participatory democracy, how would that work?

Good work Greenpeace

MORONS, most of these morons where prevented from getting into work today, many of them will not get paid, and subsequently will make their mortgage payments this month.

Mark R I would like to thank you for pointing out the obvious, we are F**king angry, Ghandi did not climb chimneys, he did not break into other peoples property, he brought about the biggest revolution in human history with quiet protest.

I don't see any unjust state here, WTF are you going on about.

And please don't insult my pedigree, as I, unlike you, have the means to trace my family backwards on my fathers side!!!!!!

If you care to read these posted properly, most of them will be from the Kingsnorth workers who sat at home waiting to get the call to come in and work, thats why most of the "snidy" comments refer to people not wearing correct safety gear.

Eon, unlike may other companies, does care, scroby sand wind farm, thames array wind arm, just google eon and you will find they have many renewable projects.

The problem is there is no quick fix to the issue here, there is no practical way of bringing on stream gigawatts of wind, wave energy etc., in a very short time, so we have to compromise.

Lets build re-newable energy supplies, but we need a stable base to support this, still infantile, source from, and the only viable options are the burning of fossil fuels or nuclear.

Please do not let this drag on but use your heads, lobby governemnt to push for renewable energy, which by the way costs a fortune to design, build and install, the financial and carbon payback still takes years, and when we have renewable sources the fossil burners will on run when demand needs to be met, excactly as toay!!!!

Hi Slightly miffed.

Firstly, I never said I supported the action - I don't particularly. I can't see how the action hopes to bring about a realistic move to sustainable methods of power generation. In any case, I don't support anything that simply says 'we'll stop this and bugger the people whose jobs depend on it'. It's a plain fact that we do need to move to renewable energy, fast, but doing that at the expense of people is plain wrong.

Secondly, none of the people I referred to claimed to work at the site, they were merely offering ill thought out comments.

If people are losing money through not being able to work then the terms and conditions they are working under are disgusting and I'd support any action they took to win a basic level of decency.

I don't know what you mean about not seeing an unjust state - I don't want to throw around lots of stats, but despite being one of the richest countries in the world we have a terrible level of inequality. It's a democracy in name only. The more money you have, the more say you have over your own life. I could go on, but that's not what we're discussing.

Touche on the parentage crack - I think he's my Dad, but then as my Mum says, she's the only one who knows for sure. But the comment about the helmets was stupid.

The book is printed on recycled paper using bio degradable inks.

Does your printer use recycled paper? Does your printer use bio inks?

Go consume yourself you div!

Al G

A participatory democracy means that you have a day to day say in decisions that affect you. Decisions are made by people directly in their own communities, not by politicians voted in every 4 or 5 years. Decisions affecting wider areas are made by accountable delegates at higher level councils, always under the control of the communities they come from.

It probably sounds like a fantasy, but it's happened throughout history. Athens was run as a democracy for 500 years. The Iriquois Confederacy of native americans was organised along egalitarian lines. Medieval cities retained assemblies of citizens. Paris during Revolution and later during the Commune again created a democracy that ran counter to the wishes of self appointed leaders. During the Spanish Civil War areas such as Catalonia implemented workplace and community democracy. Even this century when Argentina's economy collapsed people organised themselves into neighbourhood assemblies, and took over factories their managers had abandoned, turning them into viable enterprises run democratically.

To meet the UN Scientists' targets of lowering CO2 emissions means a major change in the way we live and work. We have a choice It could be done in an unjust way - the burden falling on the less well off while the comfortable can still afford expensive travel etc, or even naked authoritarianism coming out as the effects of climate change get worse.

The other choice is that any changes are made justly. We decide freely and equally how to avoid environmental disaster.

Has anyone from greenpeace actually thought about the consequences of their actions on the workers of kingsnorth? My other half was thrilled to be spending the day with our kids but he lost a days wages out of it and subsequently, I spent more time out of the house polluting the atmosphere in my car just to get a bit of peace and quite from the constant screeching. I would generally agree with greenpeace;s campains as they usually make a good point, but this time all they've done is cause more pollution with grain needing to be switched on, and pi**ed the workers.

Well done Greenpeace you really have lost it this time!

Hi there. The aim of this action was to raise public awareness about E.ON's plans to build a new coal plant which would continue to function until 2050, by which time we should - if we are to have any hope of avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change - have reduced our carbon emissions by 60 to 90 per cent. Anyone else see the discrepancy there? It was not intended as a meticulous carbon calculation, since we hope that making the public aware of this and the numerous other planned coal stations will have a deeper impact than the carbon footprint of the venture.
While of course we would love to do this in a way that doesn't disrupt the lives of others, the fact that an estimated 150,000 people already die each year as a result of climate change means that disgruntled workers are not top of our priorities right now. The 20,00 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted each day by the plant would seem to be an action more obviously committed at the expense of others.
By the way, I am the podgy-faced buffoon above and, while making no claims to academic superstardom, my reading skills are just about up to scratch thank you!