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    Greenpeace Hijacks Power Plant!
    Environmental Graffiti

    Friday 12 October 2007

    Greenpeace, the environmental campaign group, have hijacked a power station in Kent. Their takeover was spurred by the prime minister's decision to approve the UK's first coal plant in over three decades.

    At the dead of night, fifty Greenpeacers launched a subversive attack on the Kingsnorth power plant. According to the Guardian:

"One group immobilised the conveyor belts carrying coal into the plant and chained themselves to the machinery. A second group with enough provisions to last for several days, began scaling a 200m ladder up the chimney which they painted with the words "Gordon Bin It"."

    The power station operated by German energy giant E.O.N. is working closely with the police to resolve the matter. A spokes man for the company said, "Greenpeace has every right to express their views, but we don't think this is the right way to do it."

    Notwithstanding this, Greenpeace claim that the protest was not causing any risk to energy supplies. Robin Oakley, a Greenpeace campaigner stressed that "Taking one power station off the national grid will not lead to a blackout ... There is plenty of spare supply in the system."

    The power plant is still operating normally, using stocks of coal already on site, but the situation will worsen, if the protestors carry on.

    Greenpeace hope to close the power station, claiming that it is the fifth biggest polluter in the UK, emitting over 20,000 tonnes of carbon daily. Greenpeace also argue that the power station is only 45% efficient, when it could possibly reach over 95% efficiency by using the heat generated to supply to homes and business. E.O.N. argue that this is a great improvement from 36% at the current station.

    The debate continues. Meanwhile the protestors remain chained to the power plant.

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    Five Protesters Arrested at Board of Trade Building
    By Jason Meisner
    The Chicago Tribune

    Wednesday 10 October 2007

    Police this morning arrested five people who scaled the Chicago Board of Trade building in the Loop and unfurled a banner to protest the destruction of the world's rain forests.

    The demonstrators, members of the Rainforest Action Network, climbed up the side of the CBOT building at Jackson Boulevard and Wells Street before the start of the day's trading and displayed a 50-foot banner protesting three U.S. agriculture companies.

    The protest was part of a campaign to "halt agribusiness expansion in the rain forests of South America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific," according to a statement by the group. The protest targeted agribusiness firms Archer Daniels Midland Co., Bunge and Cargill.

    Chicago Police Officer Marcel Bright said four of the demonstrators made it to the 23rd floor of the 45-story art deco structure before unfurling the sign. A fifth person acted as a "coordinator" on the street, Bright said.

    The Chicago Fire Department helped police cordon off the area and had paramedics on the scene in case any of the protesters fell, Cmdr. Will Knight said. Ladder trucks were used to get the protesters down and to remove the banner. There were no injuries.

    The protesters - four men and a woman - were each charged with criminal trespassing, reckless conduct and criminal damage to property, Bright said. Their identities were not immediately available.

    The Chicago Transit Authority rerouted the 1, 7, X28, 126, 129, 151 and 156 buses for nearly two hours while police and fire crews were on the scene.