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22 February 2007
The Law As An Ass

We are shocked to learn that despite legal action a number of internet sites have been contemplating displaying the recent video shot by an EPUK member of the Radley Lakes landscape improvement project. This is exactly the kind of disgraceful and irresponsible behaviour that the entirely reasonable terms of npower’s injunction are designed to prevent.

Masked security guards, junior legal hacks and others employed by a major corporation have the right to privacy like anyone else, and are perfectly entitled to conduct their business of destroying the environment for profit away from the prying eyes of the media and others with an axe to grind.

At EPUK Towers we believe in responsible media coverage, which is why we are happy to display the video in a manner that complies with the terms of the injunction. Click the Play button to, er, play…


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Nicely handeled under pressure.Masked men in the woods,charcterlass clones speaking in tungs.All smackes of the deep south.Klantastic, come on boys lets have us a linching. What are these peaple on. Keep sticking your nose in some ones got to.

Comment #1 posted by James Sandercock at 23 February, 09:12 AM

I think N Power and their lawyers need to control their emissions! So much guff coming out! Except that it’s legal Arse! (legalese?) Never have I laughed so much in the faces of lawyers. Quite shapely and smooth I noticed. Are all lawyers like that? or should they have been hairier? more masculine perhaps? Would’nt want anyone to feel left out. Maybe one of each in the interests of balance and uncovering all eventualities?

Comment #2 posted by Simon Chapman at 23 February, 10:15 AM

Well directed into the face of the provider’s act of suppression! The hunt for alternative energy suppliers has been simplified.

Comment #3 posted by janine Wiedel at 23 February, 05:09 PM

Perhaps said legal people should be prosecuted for littering the public highway?

Comment #4 posted by Ian H at 23 February, 10:55 PM

Does the order mean that pictures cannot be taken or used (published) ? If pictures cannot be taken, why then was the security man taking his OWN footage – was he not served with a copy of the injunction ? If not why not and I hope that his footage is not used to support any future evidence that may be required in any court case, as he too would be collecting evidence illagally.
Or have a I missed a point here ?

Comment #5 posted by Andrew Dunsmore at 24 February, 04:36 PM

The injunction states that you can’t take photos or video of “protected persons”. Taking pics of protesters and police is fine . Therefore the security can do what like. Furthermore it’s a question of if N Power want to act on the injunction ie they decide who they want to arrest, I guess.

The really worrying part of this is that they are effectively stopping the press from recording potentially illegal works such as cutting trees down when the site is about to be undergoing a Town Green application and documenting the destruction of swan and Kingfisher nests.

As it happens i was stopped by security at the lake for merely raising the viewfinder to my face in order take a picture of the lake from a public bridleway.
There were no ‘protected people’ in shot.

Comment #6 posted by adrian arbib at 25 February, 07:59 AM

I’ve seen some corruption before in my time, but this stinks of it. I agree that employees have rights & should be protected, but I also feel it’s in the good of the public interest that people keep taking photos of NPOWERS corruption. The easiest way is to turn up with a massive group & hope they run out of copies of the order, the ones who haven’t been served copies can shoot away.

Comment #7 posted by Ross McKinnon at 25 February, 12:32 PM

fantastically handled, what a load of s..t,lucky you were not arrested like i was last year accused of being a journo,cleared in the crown court. waste of money, time and emotion.never give up !!!!

Comment #8 posted by spike watson at 26 February, 04:51 PM

During a recent protest march down to the lakes (numbering about 250 people), the security guards hid behind their gates. So far they have put injunctions on the editor of the Oxford Mail, and on Fox FM. So now they cant cover the story without risk of being sued for every penny they have. More of this sort of website is whats needed. Keep it up!

Comment #9 posted by X at 1 March, 03:00 PM

And then there was the poll on the Abingdon Herald Website. Going nicely in favour of the request for NPower to stop work when all of a sudden, a steady swing the other way which immediately set alarm bells ringing. An enquiry to the Web Administrator revealed 650 votes from one IP Address – Another tactic in the arsenal of a Company that wants to win at all costs?.

Comment #10 posted by Lakesaver at 2 March, 07:01 PM

surely the public are harrassed alarmed or distressed by men in balaclavas suddenly appearing. Has the public now obtained a right of highway as useage under the highways act to walk along the banks of the lake.

Comment #11 posted by f. Hanwell at 6 March, 09:41 AM

NPower cannot stop people using the footpath or public rights of way which exist across the area.
We are having a Protest Walk tomorrow at 1.00pm from the Guildhall Abingdon to Thrupp Lake and on to the Bowyers Arms in Radley for a social event. Come and support us with the civil liberties issue and protect our right to protest.

Comment #12 posted by Lakesaver at 9 March, 01:57 PM

npower rock !!

Comment #13 posted by npower goon at 13 March, 10:03 AM

“npower rock !!”

And in case anyone is wondering, the above comment by "npower goon" was indeed posted from a computer on the RWE Npower network

The EPUK Website Editor

Comment #14 posted by The EPUK Website Editor at 13 March, 12:15 PM

Hi, could you not lodge a complaint with Npower about the ‘Npower rocks’ and get the perpetrator disciplined? You’ve got his/her e-mail address!

Bob Eeles

Comment #15 posted by Bob Eeles at 13 March, 10:10 PM

I’m going to hazard a guess that the “npower goon employment contract” doesn’t have any specific clauses which would make positive statements about the company a disciplinary offence…

Comment #16 posted by The EPUK Website Editor at 14 March, 08:12 PM

We made it at last – National TV. Channel 4 had the necessary spherical objects to publish and be damned, except it was NPower who were damned.

Please visit the Channel 4 Blog and add your comments.

Leon Flexman is obviously burning the midnight oil trying to deal with all the flak that is coming their way. My Phone as a Campaigner has been red hot with the public ringing me after the broadcast – Mr Frost apparently has not been taking calls!

www.channel4.com/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=you_risk_five_years_in

Comment #17 posted by Lakesaver at 22 March, 05:25 PM

Don’t forget to vote at petitions.pm.gov.uk/SaveRadleyLakes

When you vote they send you an email which you have to open and click on the link before your vote is validated.

Comment #18 posted by Lakesaver at 23 March, 10:06 PM

This is an interesting article. I think it is important and necessary to discuss such information because we all live on the Earth and it is our home. People should save the planet, not destroy it.

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