It’s been an incredibly busy week since my last blog, what with the Green Party conference in London and various bits and pieces keeping me occupied in Brussels. For those who don’t really follow Green news, Party members voted to elect me as the first ever Green leader at conference on Friday. Naturally, I am delighted and can promise that I will strive to live up to expectations! Anyone who would like to know more about this would do well to visit the Party website at www.greenparty.org.uk.
One more thing that I must mention today is the landmark decision in the courts to acquit six Greenpeace activists charged with ‘criminal damage’ at the Kingsnorth power plant. They were involved in the Climate Camp demonstration at the coal-fired power station last month and were blamed for some minor damage done to the facility, However, in this astonishing case which saw a top NASA climate scientist and a member of the Inuit community give evidence, the jury decided to side with the green campaigners and agreed that shutting down the coal plant was justified in the context of the damage to property caused around the world by CO2 emissions. Let’s hope that this groundbreaking decision is a sign of things to come…
