A train carrying coal to one of Britain's largest power stations was stopped by protestors and boarded this morning.
Thirty members of the group "Leave it in the Ground" stopped the train with a red flag and boarded it at Rawcliffe on the boundary between north and east Yorkshire. The train was carrying coal to Drax Power Station.
Leave it in the Ground is an organisation which protests against open cast mining.
Drax Power Station the largest coal fired station in the Uk claims to be the cleanest and most efficient power station in the UK.
Look at the two site and see what you think?
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I find it hard to see what these protesters aim to achieve - Surely it is hypocritical that climate change protesters target a train, which is the cleanest way to transport large amounts of things? Also, it wass on it's way to (allegedly) one of the cleanest coal power stations.
Fair enough, they are trying to save the environment, but that doesn't justify hijacking a train - what they did can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
What they should have targeted their protests at would have been domestic aviation (it can dish out more than 10x the amount of CO2 than rail travel), mass cargo transportation by road and also the government, to get cleaner power stations built, rather than coal ones. Targeting these parties would help cut CO2 levels, and achieve what they set out to do.
Ta,
Jonathan Fundament, 9M
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