Day of action at Didcot power station.
On 1st June, around 600 people attended a mass action camp in the shadow of Didcot power station in Oxfordshire – as part of international mobilisation ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris later this year. This was a day of action against the fossil fuel industry with 18 interventions occurring across the country. Here, Robbie Stonecroft reports how the industry, the government and the spin machines were all targeted – mapping the structures of Big Energy in the political system.
Industry
The Big Six energy companies (RWE Npower, British Gas, EDF, Eon, Scottish Power and SSE) remain widely unpopular amongst consumers for regular price hikes and soaring profits. The location of Reclaim the Power's action camp in the shadow of Didcot power station (owned by RWE Npower) highlighted the climate dimension to the Big Six's dominance – that as well as ripping us off, these companies own hugely polluting fossil fuel infrastructure and are pushing for more to be built. Through workshops, training and actions, the camp aimed to join the dots between social, economic and environmental injustices of energy supply.
