Drax or Ratcliffe: you decide!
This summer, the biggest heavyweights of climate change will face off in a media-friendly extravaganza. In the red corner, emitting 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, the UK's single biggest emitter of CO2... Drax coal-fired power station. In the blue corner, weighing in at 13 million tonnes, rising contender and the largest investor owned emitter of CO2... Ratcliffe on Soar coal-fired power station. Who gets blockaded? You decide!
Later this year a whole mob of direct activists - and you - will be descending on a coal-fired power station, and closing it for a short while. Previously these things have been done under the cover of darkness and secrecy, but that can be a bit exclusive. It's hard to get new people to join this growing movement when you can't tell anyone what you're up to!
So the Climate Camp, Climate Rush and Plane Stupid have decided to throw back the covers and expose ourselves to the world by organising a very public day of mass action for the 17-18 October. The target is being voted on, right now, on t'internet. We want to know: where would you rather blockade?
So get voting, get packing, get ready: the Great Climate Swoop is coming to a power station near you. I've no idea when voting will end, but I can guarantee you that someone will win and that there will almost certainly be bunting. Seriously, we've got boxes of the stuff now.
