Can't stop smiling today since I heard the news that E.ON has shelved its project at Kingsnorth (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/kingsnorth)! Since the project was mooted in 2006 there has been an amazing ongoing campaign against it. For everyone who has been part of the struggle - especially those of us who witnessed the extraordinarily aggressive policing at climate camp last year - this is almost too good to be true.

But lets keep our feet on the ground...This might only be a postponement, and it falls far short of the justice-led example of government leadership we need. Coal needs to stay in the ground and with Kingnorth down, our attentions must turn to E.ON's hub of 'clean coal' greenwash - Ratcliffe on Soar, Nottingham (http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/climate-swoop-2009).

If we in the UK are serious about moving beyond our dependence on coal - which currently provides 33% of the our energy - we need decisive action at a governmental level. Tomorrow I'm visiting the camp at the Vestas Blades Factory on the Isle of Wight. Here was the UK's only sizeable turbine factory closing for lack of UK-based orders- yet it's an industry which should be at the heart of the governments efforts to ensure a just-transition to a post-carbon society . The market for wind-energy needs to grow fast. It needs to be government-funded and incentivized, and needs to be seen as a real opportunity for mass job creation.

Here in Brighton and Hove we have two Wind Turbine projects in the pipeline - potentially involving 11 turbines around the Shoreham Habour area (on and offshore) and 3 turbines off Brighton Pier. Schemes like this have the potential to be a source of employment for huge numbers of people. Show your solidarity with the 600 Vestas workers who lost their jobs in July and support your local wind-energy project!