We shall go on taking coal from the earth.
Striking miners had then been attempting to stop convoys of lorries taking coal to Llanwern steelworks.
The forests have gone, opencast mines circle the city and giant barges pass down the river Mahakam every few minutes taking coal to India, Japan, Korea and beyond.
Cleveland Bridge Company was chosen to design a bridge which solved the problem of how to cross the river without impeding the ships taking coal, iron and steel downstream.
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy and Climate Change said: "The UK is playing its part in driving action on climate change and transitioning to a global low carbon economy; leading the world on taking coal off the grid and providing international climate finance aid".
No formal details of the proposed action have been released, but campaign veterans speculated that the demonstrators could have been planning to chain themselves to the conveyor belts taking coal into the power plant in an attempt to stop the turbines when fuel ran out.
