Kingsnorth puts a break on the plan for a new dirty coal fired power station

We have stopped Kingsnorth!
After months of amazing campaigning, EON announced last night that they have put the breaks on plans for a new dirty coal fired power station at Kingsnorth for at least three years.

This is a fantastic victory for campaigners, but even more so for the world’s poorest people who would suffer most from climate change caused by a new power station at Kingsnorth. The new power station would have emitted more carbon dioxide every year than the whole of Tanzania and could have left 100,000 people without water in the dry season because of the damage caused to the global climate by its emissions.

We have only been able to achieve this thanks to your help. We'd like to thank everyone who signed an action card, took one of our online actions, or turned up at one of our protests, vigils and information meetings. We'd like to thank all the local WDM groups for their inspiring campaigning work. By holding up the consent of Kingsnorth for over two years, people across the UK who have taken action, including everyone who joined The Big If, have effectively stalled one of the biggest climate destroying pieces of infrastructure at a crucial time.

Especially we'd like to thank all of our financial supporters, our members and everyone who responded to our recent climate change appeal, without you this campaign would not have been possible.

We are still awaiting an announcement from the government about their future coal policy. If the UK wants any credibility at Copenhagen this December, Ed Miliband must prove that the UK is prepared to address its massive climate debt by cutting dirty coal from our energy future. We will keep you posted.

Yours,

Kirsty Wright, Climate justice campaigner at the World Development Movement.

PS for the latest news about our campaign, reports from Copenhagen and more actions to stop coal visit our website at www.wdm.org.uk