[IMC-UK-Features] modified coal rush feature for uploading

Tue Mar 3 07:47:22 PST 2009

New title - New Coal Digs In

Climate Rush tackled more climate criminals last week when the UK 
coal industry got together for their annual 'coal awards'. In a 
protest timed to coincide with the UK Coal hosted awards, <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/423079.html">around 15 climate activists paid a visit to their 
Doncaster headquarters</a>, dressed in Edwardian style complete with 
red sashes with the words 'No New Coal' written across them. 
A banner reading 'Leave it in the Ground' was suspended 
across the entrance.

In London, the dirty coal pushers shied away from confrontation 
with the modern day climate suffregette movement, abandoning their 
booking at the plush Landmark Hotel and scuttling off to Lords cricket 
grounds instead. At the hotel, <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422948.html">around a hundred activists rushed inside through 
a fire exit</a> and began an alternative awards ceremony to highlight 
the ecological damage that the coal industry is inflicting on the 
environment. After being ejected from the hotel, <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422965.html">a couple more attempts were made to gain entry 
and one arrest was made</a> before the <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/423010.html">alternate awards continued outside</a>. The 
Landmark hotel management were less than happy about the righteous 
fury brought down on them by the climate criminals promised not to 
accept bookings from such damaging industries again.

The coal represent 50% of the electricity production in the UK and its 
greatest contribution to CO2 emissions so the coal industry has seen 
increasing attention from activists. Last month activists and local 
resident <a href="/en/2009/02/422702.html">disrupted work at the 
Rosewell open-cast coal mine in Midlothian</a>, operated by Scottish 
Coal , and another protest <a href="/en/2009/02/422890.html">stopped 
work at UK Coal owned Shipley open cast coal mine</a> in Derbyshire.


Coal is <a href="/en/2009/02/422583.html">under attack in the USA too</ 
a>.

<p><strong>Related newswire photo reports :</strong> <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422948.html">Coal Rush 1</a> | <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422965.html">2</a> | <a href="/en/2009/02/423010.html">3</a> |  
<a href="/en/2009/02/423079.html">Doncaster 1</a> <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422370.html">2</a> |  <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422702.html">Rosewell</a> | <a href="/en/ 
2009/02/422890.html">Shipley</a>

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<b>Campaign wesbites :</b> <a href="http://climaterush.co.uk">Climate  
Rush</a> | <a href="http://www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk">Coal  
Action Edinburgh</a> | <a href="http://www.climatecamp.org.uk">Climate  
Camp</a> | <a href="http://nonewcoal.org.uk">No New Coal</a> </P>

<p><strong>Previous related actions :</strong> <a href="/en/ 
2009/01/418697.html">'climate suffragettes' smash gov windows</a> |
<a href="/en/2009/01/420527.html">chained to parliament</a> | <a  
href="/en/2009/01/418227.html">Climate Rush Heathrow 1</a> <a href="/ 
en/2009/01/418245.html">2</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/418328.html">Rush  
at Manchester Airport 1</a> <a href="/en/2009/01/418361.html">2</a> |  
<a href="/en/regions/london/2008/10/410761.html">Rush Parliament 1</a>  
<a href="/en/2008/10/410864.html Rush Parliament">2</a></p>

<p><strong>Next Climate Rush :</strong> <a href="en/ 
2009/03/423247.html">RBS Bank Rush - 1pm, Thurs March 5th</a></p>

<p><strong>Climate Rush "Canary in the Coalmine" awards:</strong></ 
p><p><strong>Science Fiction award</strong><br/> went o the most  
unbelievable technology not yet available to stop CO2 emissions,  
Carbon Capture and Storage.</p><p><strong>Financial Fool award</ 
strong><br/> went to the Royal Bank of Scotland, for helping to raise  
$16 billion in loans to finance the worldwide coal industry over the  
past two years.</p><p><strong>LIfetime Achievement award</strong><br/>  
went to Drax coal fired power station, for the Greatest Emissions in  
the UK, equivalent to that of the 54 poorest countries in the world.</ 
p><p><strong>Best Supporting Role</strong><br/> went to the biggest  
Climate Coward, Gordon Brown, for his useless leadership over Climate  
Change.</p><p><strong>Best Newcomer</strong><br/> went to the next  
likely "factory of death", Kingsnorth coal fired power station in  
Kent.</p><p>and finally...</p><p><strong>UK Coal Personality of the  
Year</strong><br/> went to Paul Golby, CEO of energy company E.ON, for  
outstanding services to Greenwash (whilst plotting to build  
Kingsnorth)</p>

Bonus Victory As a result of the 
protests, the Landmark hotel vowed that companies and organisations 
which contribute to climate chaos will no longer be welcome to use 
their facilities for corporate promotion and entertainment. The hotel 
say they will now deny companies such as the Royal Bank of Scotland 
(the biggest single investor in coal and oil industries) and oil 
companies, such as ESSO, BP and Shell, as well as the coal industry 
from using their ballrooms and banquet halls to promote their cause. 
The manager also pledged to communicate with the 24 other five star 
hotels in its’ group to suggest they do the same.A spokeswomen 
for the Climate Rush explained, "For too long profiteering from 
climate change has been sold to the public as a necessity of ‘business 
as usual’. But with global temperatures rising and climate chaos 
running riot in the form of drought (Africa and Australia) and 
flooding (low lying lands all over), we all need to work together. We 
applaud the Landmark for their good sense and the vision to say 
‘enough is enough’. They rightly don’t want to be associated with the 
corrupt system that needs overturning. We welcome the Landmark to play 
their role in the new way of doing things so needed.”Climate Rush 
will work with the Landmark Hotel to ensure the right companies are 
blocked, to send a clear message to polluters: they’re not welcome.