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Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law


By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor

Thursday, 11 September 2008


The
threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in
causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power
station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked
ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court
cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Jurors
accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage
property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater
damage caused by climate change. The defence of "lawful excuse" under
the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to
prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a
burning house to tackle a fire.












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