World Ecology Newswire Archive

mr mark garavin "shelltosea" is to run for Seanad Éireann .

The tree camp in the Brecon Beacons is still going strong. The mood is good and everyone is happy ( well all except National Grid that is !!! ).

More than 400 nuclear opponents have demonstrated in the west German city of Münster against a nearby nuclear waste dump at Ahaus and secret transports of depleted uranium from a nearby enrichment plant at Gronau.

A short video of the Shell Oil Wildlife Photograph Exhibition at the London Natural History Museum getting polluted with sticky black stuff.

Shortly after midday on Saturday the 3rd Feb, environmental activists defaced a Shell Oil sponsored photo exhibition and called on the Natural History Museum to drop it's greenwashing deal with the oil giant.

While a banner was dropped in the main hall and 600 leaflets handed out to members of the public, an oil like substance was sprayed over the wildlife photos in the Shell sponsored exhibition. There were a large number of security personnel present and some of the protesters were assaulted by panicking museum staff and members of the public but there were no arrests.

The action follows the publication of Shell's 2006 record breaking financial figures and the release of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth report which yet again suggests that climate change is happening faster then previously predicted.


See press release at  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361416.html

Other coverage :
 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/6406/Wildlife_%91snappers%92_to_highlight_harm_done_by_Shell.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6328049.stm

Here is an earlier segment from the film released 2 weeks ago of a protester up a crane in Alltwen, near Trebanos in the Swwnsea Valley.

Orica Australia is proposing to export 22,000 tonnes of highly toxic hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste to Germany. The waste is supposed to be incinerated in Leverkusen, Dormagen, Herten and Brunsbuettel. Two of the incinerators are run by the Chemical company Bayer.

In flagrant contempt of best archaeological practice, a systematic campaign of tree felling, earth clearance and monument removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is before the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the M3 Motorway, to run through the Tara / Skryne Valley, has even been signed. Daily protests are taking place, every 7am in the morning at the Hill of Tara car park.

CLIMATE CHANGE:

Gronau, Germany, 1 February - - Another 1,000 tonnes of depleted uranium have left an enrichment plant here on a secret train, headed for Russia.

Gronau, Germany, 1 February - - Another 1,000 tonnes of depleted uranium have left an enrichment plant here on a secret train, headed for Russia.

Anti-nuclear activists were able to find out the train’s departure times, triggering spontaneous protests at Germany’s only uranium enrichment plant, in Burgsteinfurt and in the main railway station of the nearby city of Münster.

This morning ( Wed 31-01-2007 ) five people were arrested on the public footpath running through the construction site in Trebanos, South Wales.

Here is a small confession : I don't consider myself to be normal. I wish I was. I strive to save energy, reduce the damage I do to the planet and work hard to think of solutions to our environmental crisis. That is not normal. If it was, then I could probably carry on living with few cares in the world - except maybe what will happen to my children when they become teenagers!

Video and original press release of the Tuesday morning action against the London Irish Embassy.

Please follow this link to watch a collection of movies from logging protests in Southern Tasmania:
 http://www.writingsonthewall.net/weld-valley-logging-protests

In 1975 it was discovered by US authorities that arms maker EDO Corporation were responsible for
contamationaing drinking water in the US city of Norwalk.

Normally, the weaponized radioactive poison gas munitions are to be used on America's many "terrorists" enemies around the globe. The battlefield product has no "turn off" switch and is deadly forever. Apparently, the rogue Livermore Nuker Lab has declared war on San Francisco.

The tree camp site in Brecon is gaining a LOT of local support. It's in a beautiful setting, and is quite sheltered!

Video of an evening of Shell garage blockades in London.

At 2.00 pm today a group of campaigners against the controversial LNG pipeline forced work to stop yet again on the construction site in Trebanos.