Environmental activists launched a seaborne invasion of a controversial coal power station site in the UK yesterday. The Greenpeace activists eventually left the Kingsnorth site this morning after a legal injunction from the plant’s owner E.ON.

The company plans to build a new coal power station on the site, something environmental activists strongly oppose.

“A new Kingsnorth would emit the same amount of carbon dioxide as the 30 least polluting countries in the world combined, and destroy any chance we have of persuading China and India to stop building coal plants,” said Ben Stewart, one of the activists (BBC).

Stewart and five others were recently acquitted of causing criminal damage to Kingsnorth, on the grounds that climate change was a ‘lawful excuse’ for their actions.

An E.ON press officer told Kent News, “We absolutely support the campaigners’ right to protest but clearly tying up boats to a working power station is just ridiculous.”

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