UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Sheffield to Import Waste?

03-01-2011 20:45

It's always interesting when councils and their major contractors run public consultations nicely placed over the Christmas period, as if to catch the public unaware of a deadline for responses on, let's say, 15th January. This is the case with the proposal to ship in up to 50,000 tonnes of waste for Bernard Road Incinerator. It would come from surrounding towns and counties, by heavy lorries presumably. That's not likely to be controversial is it?

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#532 - Hearing the Inner Calling (Green Gone Wrong and Independent Diplomat)

31-12-2010 18:40

We start a new decade of Unwelcome Guests with a show appropriate to New Year's Resolutions. In our first hour we hear Heather Rogers on her new book, Green Gone Wrong, about why buying 'green' products will never solve the world's ecological crises. Our second hour presents a healthier alternative for resolution material - two individuals who have heard an inner calling and decided to take up an issue, to act upon their convictions in spite of the change to their routine; Charles Eisenstein tells how he came to write Ascent of Humanity, and Carne Ross tells why he quit the UK Diplomatic Service and how he came to start a non-profit diplomatic service for marginalised people groups.

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Anti Nuclear Campaigners In Court In Lowestoft

29-12-2010 19:18

4 January 2011, 10am (plus 5, 10, and 11 January)

Two anti nuclear campaigners, Andreas Speck (46) from London and Ian Mills (45) from Chippenham, will be tried at Lowestoft Magistrates Court from 4 January on, for "failing to leave land" (S69(3)(a) CJPOA 1994) when they blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk on 22 February 2010 [1].

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Peace Pays

28-12-2010 18:49

When cities cannot afford services, when schools suffer, unemployment & welfare are gone - military spending still gets more than half of all. Why not build America instead? Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. We overcome objections, find local activism, search for Peace - & then hear the same calls for military conversion in Great Britain, from Stuart Parkinson.

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The Wombles

26-12-2010 03:48

The Wombles

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Evo's Highway: Development in Socialist South America

23-12-2010 09:08

It sounds like something the IMF would have funded during the regime of General Banzer: a super highway cutting across Bolivia, linking Brazil with Peru and Chile—and thus with East Asian markets, and in the process plowing straight through a vitally important nature reserve that also happens to be the home of three indigenous nations.

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Review of Opencast Coal Site Applications in England

22-12-2010 16:39

This article summarises known information about Opencast / Surface mining in England over the period 2009 / 10 by indication where Applications have been successful, where they have been rejected, where applications are currently 'live' and lastly where applications are likely to be made.

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Call out for solidarity actions against Shell

22-12-2010 14:46

Any day now Shell will find out whether it will be able to continue with the dangerous Corrib Gas Project in Co. Mayo, Ireland

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How to object to EDF's plans to desecrate 400 acres of Somerset coast

21-12-2010 00:49

Register your objection to EDF's planned desecration of over 400 acres of pristine coastal land and coastline of ecological and scientific importance by 12 January 2011. Details below.

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Video of Huntington Lane Mine blockade

19-12-2010 16:26

As part of the Huntington Lane Anti-Coal protest camp's weekend gathering on Saturday 11th December activists from across the country successfully blockaded the entrance to the mine. No Arrests were made.

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UKCMRI

19-12-2010 16:22

On 16 December 2010 Camden Council granted planning permission to UKCMRI for a gigantic research laboratory (employing 1,500) which will be working on dangerous biological toxins . Help oppose it.

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Call out for Direct Action against Shell

19-12-2010 11:58

Please organise actions within your communities that will target Shell economically. The decision is expected to be annouced sometime between late December or early January, so be ready!

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Cancun Climate Activist Report

19-12-2010 01:02

5 interviews of results of COP-16 Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Harvard's Robert Stavins calls "success". Damon Moglen, Friends of Earth; Anarchist film-maker on street protests in Mexico, Franklin Lopez; Phil England, host of "Climate Radio" calls out World Bank and weak rules; S. American expert Nikolas Kozloff on Brazil, Bolivia, & the road not taken. In depth reporting on official efforts to save the climate. Radio Ecoshock 2010-12-17

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Chile: Invitación Campamento Autónomo

17-12-2010 13:03

Trabajo de Verano autónomo, comunitario y rebelde

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Cancun Agreement stripped bare by Bolivia's dissent

17-12-2010 12:21

In the famous Hans Christian Anderson fable, The Emperor's New Clothes, a weaver famously plays on an emperor's arrogance and persuades him to wear a non-existent suit with the argument that it is only invisible to the 'hopelessly stupid.' The moment of truth comes, as we can all remember, when a child in an otherwise silent crowd yells out, “But he is not wearing any clothes!” What we don't always recall is that the naked Emperor suspects the child may be telling the truth, but carries on marching proudly and unclothed regardless.

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Successful gathering including blockade at huntington lane protest site

15-12-2010 15:53

The gathering at the shropshire anti-coal site at huntington lane went ahead last weekend, including a day-long blockade of the quarry site on Saturday. Much skillsharing and defense building also went ahead during the action-packed gathering.

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TYNINGS FIELD COMMUNITY HARVEST

12-12-2010 00:44

we are a community group looking for active members wishing to set up a community supported agricultural scheme in Shirehampton Bristol or work an individual allotment.

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Manchester Airport protesters found guilty but vow to fight on

08-12-2010 20:50

Two climate protesters who blockaded the road entrance to the World Freight Centre of Manchester Airport were found guilty yesterday of obstruction of the highway at Trafford Magistrates Court. The two defendants had pleaded not guilty on the grounds that the expansion of the Airport would have significant impacts on local homes and globally in contributing to climate change - and that their protest was a reasonable use of the road given that other methods of redress had been tried.

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Stop GM gathering

07-12-2010 15:29

GM – Gathering Momentum
Anti-GM update, networking and strategy session for grassroots and NGO campaigners
Saturday 22nd January 2011, 10am – 6pm
Central London

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Dumping dead fish in the sea

07-12-2010 01:36

Every year, fisherman dump half their catch back in the sea as dead fish!