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Greenpeace volunteers intercept a freighter carrying coal bound for Kingsnorth power station in Kent using rigid inflatable speedboats just after midnight on Monday 22 June 2009.

12 February 2009 Cilacap, Central Java, INDONESIA.<br>Greenpeace takes direct action to expose the true cost of coal at Cilacap coal plant on Central Java’s south coast. 40 Greenpeace activists and local community representatives, wearing white masks to symbolise the health risks to local communities, chained themselves to the gates of the Cilacap coal plant. Greenpeace is denouncing the faulty projections by Indonesia’s Energy ministry to justify the building of new coal plants that do not take into account so-called "external costs" such as respiratory diseases, mining accidents, acid rain, smog pollution, reduced agricultural yields and climate change.

The aftermath of a giant toxic coal ash spill from the Kingston Fossil plant, Tennessee. Over a billion gallons of toxic sludge was released into the Emory and Clinch Rivers, tributaries of the Tennessee River.

5 of the "Kingsnorth 6" who in a landmark court case in September 2008 were acquitted of causing criminal damage by painting on a smokestack at the Kingsnorth coal power station, on the grounds of "lawful excuse"

Quit Coal. 10 Greenpeace activists prevent the unloading of coal from the coal ship Hanjin Imabari.

Greenpeace climbers make their way to the top of the Pątnów power coal fired power station chimney near Konin, western Poland.

Greenpeace climbers prepare to spend the night on top of the Pątnów power coal fired power station chimney near Konin, western Poland.

Greenpeace activists project a message to the climate summit talks, taking place in the nearby city of Poznan, on the side of the Pątnów power coal fired power station.

In the run up to the Poznan Cop14 climate summit, approximately twenty Greenpeace activists tip coal from a tipper truck and display banners reading 'Get serious, quit coal!' outside the Sheraton hotel, where the Summit on Sectoral Cooperation is being held. Greenpeace is targeting the meeting attended coal companies, heavy industry and at least 20 industry ministers by releasing its "True Cost of Coal" report, outlining the global cost of coal today.