Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the Guardian, NPR, and

interview with Tim Flannery, counter-spin on the media and a special essay by Mike Tidwell.

I'm on the railway line to Drank's Power Station where climate camp protesters have stopped

and am now occupying a train carrying coal to the Power Station.

I've been here since 6am, 15am this morning and the train has just been stopped at 8am,

2 trains went in earlier on. They've stopped the train in a sophisticated way, they looked

like railway workers, they had red flags, they say they did it all very strictly according

to safety procedures and they've stopped it at a bridge over a river about two miles

from the Power Station. It's caused quite a lot of disruption because the level crossing

on the small lane that goes across the railway line about half miles north has been jammed

at some closed by the railway safety system. The climate change people say they hope

that will soon be sorted out because the line is going to be blocked now for the foreseeable

future. I'm just making my way to the train which is about 100 yards away from it now because

the protesters are planning to get on board and apparently they've got supplies sufficient

to ask them for a while, presumably the police will be here shortly and then we'll see

what goes on, what goes off to be saying you know what to say.

This is a full one that's just heading to Drax, full of coal, one of the many thousands

of tons that get burnt at Drax and we're stopping the supply because it's absolute nonsense

to be burning coal when we need to tackle climate change. Last year was Heathrow this year

coal fire power station because those are the two big things aviation expansion and coal.

A father of those go ahead the government will never meet its climate change targets.

So here we are at the train and there's about, how many of you are there, about 30 of you?

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