Kingsnorth protester diary: Lego and Latin America
                   
guardian.co.uk     08-Aug-2008            

The Camp for Climate Action is staging a week-long protest against plans to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. Activist Alex Harvey will be giving us her view of what's happening on the ground Friday: Day five of the Climate Camp 2008 There's been a fair amount of giggling at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp today, at news that the world's smallest campaigners scaled Kingsnorth's smokestacks yesterday ... Bizarrely, at Legoland in Windsor, there's a replica of Power Station Enemy Number 1 alongside Big Ben and Canary Wharf - one of the perks for E.ON of sponsoring the theme park. Six teeny Lego activists appeared at the top of the Lego replica of Kingsnorth at around 11am yesterday, before unveiling a banner saying "stop climate change" down the length of the tower. Lego police were in attendance at the... [read full story]                    


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