Environmental campaigners [from Greenpeace] today claimed to have taken over [Kingsnorth] power station in Kent in a protest designed to stop the prime minister, Gordon Brown, from approving the UK's first new coal plant in more than 30 years… "The proposal by German energy company E.ON to build a new coal-fired power station on this site which will emit up to 10m tonnes of C02 a year for the next 50 years are totally at odds with government targets for cutting CO2 emissions," said Robin Oakley [a senior energy campaigner at Greenpeace]… An E.ON spokesman...said the new power station proposed by E.ON was "far more efficient than the current station – from 36% to 45% efficiency".