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This year's Climate Camp was at Kingsnorth on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent where E.ON intend to build a new coal-fired power station. Coal is the most polluting of all fuels and this single plant will add more pollution than many whole countries currently produce. The company and our government talk about carbon capture and storage, but Kingsnorth will not incorporate these (just be ‘ready’ for them.) It is far from certain that these technologies will ever be developed and even less likely if so that they will be economic.
One Climate Camp Caravan had started from Heathrow a week ago and another, the Stop Incineration Climate Camp Caravan had been travelling from Brighton, both demonstrating at various related sites along their routes and they met on Sunday morning in the middle of Rochester for a 'No New Coal' Rally attended by around 300 people.
Speakers at this included Ashok Sinha, Executive Director of Stop Climate Chaos, Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party), Deputy Director of the Kent Branch, Campaign to Protect Rural England Sean Furey, Executive Director of the World Development Movement Benedict Southworth, James Lloyd of People and Planet, Penny Eastwood from the Camp for Climate Action, Medway Lib Dem councillor Maureen Ruparel, Steve Wilkins from Medway Trades Council, Simon Marchant from Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway and Phil Thornhill from the Campaign against Climate Change and people from the Climate Change Caravans.
After the rally the marchers set off for the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth, seven miiles away for the week of activities and action there. There was a strong police presence, including some familiar faces from the Met, and I noticed one police van which said it was from Staffordshire.
I left the march at the top of a long hill a couple of miles on, with just
under 300 people making their way to Kingsnorth.
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Waiting
to take part in the carnival processionHayling Island is another part of 'London-by-the-sea' on the south coast
not far from Portsmouth and has a large carnival with fancy dress competion,
baby show, dog show, a carnival queen and princesses and a carnival parade.
I took many more pictures than are on show here - if anyone I photographed
can't find themselves here please contact
me and tell me what you looked like and were doing and I'll send
your picture if I have it.
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are © Peter Marshall
2008;
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prints or for permission to reproduce pictures or any other questions and
comments.