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| Climate change protest at Commons | |
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| Four environmental protesters have glued themselves to a statue in the Houses of Parliament. | Four environmental protesters have glued themselves to a statue in the Houses of Parliament. |
| Three women and a man have stuck their hands together to form a chain around the statue of Viscount Falkland, just yards from the Commons chamber. | Three women and a man have stuck their hands together to form a chain around the statue of Viscount Falkland, just yards from the Commons chamber. |
| The protesters, from the group Climate Rush, say it is designed to be a wake-up call for the government. | The protesters, from the group Climate Rush, say it is designed to be a wake-up call for the government. |
| It is a protest against last week's decision to allow a new generation of coal-fuelled power stations. | It is a protest against last week's decision to allow a new generation of coal-fuelled power stations. |
| Police have sealed off the corridor in St Stephen's Hall, close to the main entrance to the Commons where visitors usually wait before going to watch Parliamentary debates. | |
| The protest marks 100 years to the day that a suffragette chained herself to the same statue as part of the campaign to secure votes for women - the authorities had to cut through the statue's sword to release her. | |
| The protesters wore red Suffragette-style sashes and chanted the slogan "deeds not words", which was used during the campaign for the right to vote. | |
| Last Thursday Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announced that funding would be found for up to four coal-fired power stations, as long as they were fitted with so-called carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. | |
| It would mean about 25% of energy output would have carbon trapped and stored underground, to prevent it being released into the atmosphere. | |
| The idea was that when CCS was proven commercially and technically viable, which the government expects by 2020, those stations would then have five years to capture and store carbon from 100% of their energy output. | |
| Mr Miliband said it could mean carbon emissions from coal would be reduced by 90% and would put the UK "in a world leadership position on CCS and coal". |