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United Kingdom: Climate activists receive sentences for gas-fired power station occupation

2013-06-06 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Twenty-one climate change activists were sentenced on Thursday for aggravated trespass after occupying a gas-fired power station last year. Sixteen of the activists were given community service orders of 150-200 hours, while the other five received 18-month conditional discharges. The activists occupied EDF's newly built West Burton power plant in Nottinghamshire in October, with several protesters remaining strapped to a cooling tower at the site for more than a week, the longest such occupation...

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