Enviros Blockade Biomass Plant
To protest against plans to produce electricity from imported woodchips. Read More...
Editor's Note: Is anyone surprised? My favorite touch here is the listing for news reporters "Protestors" cell phone numbers.
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Climate activists blockade biomass plant in Port Talbot
November 30th, 2009
Activists from Climate Camp Cymru blockaded a biomass plant in Port Talbot to protest against plans to produce electricity from imported woodchips.
Two protestors used bicycle locks to close off the plant’s entrance, stopping the hourly 20-ton deliveries of woodchip needed to keep the power station operating. A large banner on the gates reads “Biomess”.
The plant is the first of its kind in the UK, incinerating woodchips to generate electricity.
* Protesters: mobile phone numbers: 07952 932 626 / 07909 171 951. Address: Western Wood Energy Plant, 1 Longland Lane, Port Talbot, SA13 2NR.
* Interviews in Welsh: Angharad Penrhyn Jones: 07780 914 369
* Biofuelwatch: Almuth Ernsting: 01224 324797.
* Port Talbot Residents Against Power Stations: Pete Wilson: 01639 884 820, Jeremy Baileys: 07702069561. http://www.pt-raps.co.uk/index.html; info@pt-raps.co.uk
* High-res photos available here very shortly.
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