The protest comes on the same day that the IPCC, the world's most respected climate change organisation, announced that global warming is worse than previously thought and 'unequivocally' man-made.
Greenpeace believes that, 'because Blair has made coal cheaper to burn than the less polluting natural gas, he has encouraged a wave of applications from energy companies to build brand new coal fired power stations - the first new applications in 20 years. These power plants would be the nail in the coffin for the UK's attempts to stop catastrophic climate change.'
Coal, which contains 50% carbon, produces far more carbon dioxide than either oil or gas and is the largest contributor to global warming.
Read about the IPCC report here
This article first appeared in the Ecologist February 2007
