Protesters have halted a coal train bound for the Drax power station.The Drax plant is the largest single greenhouse gas polluter in the country.
20 protesters began shovelling coal out of the trucks after ambushing the train on a bridge over the River Aire. Other members of the group attached lines to the wheels and were hanging off them over the river to prevent the train moving.
Activist Ben Tennyson said: "We've stopped this train to prevent it delivering a thousand tonnes of coal to be burned at Drax and then released into the atmosphere. If we're serious about fighting climate change, we have to leave this dirty fuel in the ground and invest in clean, renewable energy sources instead."
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