UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Nottingham East Midlands Airport - Watch this Airspace!
30-12-2005 16:16
An Airport Master Plan outlining Nottingham East Midlands Airport's proposals for expansion over the next 25 years is due to be published this month.How They Rebuilt Stonehenge 50 years ago
29-12-2005 20:08
No M66 Exhibition ten years on.
29-12-2005 11:08
It will be ten years from the first eviction of the No M66 Campaign in February 2006. There will be an exhibition about the No M66 Campaign, From wednesday 22nd february to sun 20th march at the basement social center, lever street, Manchester.Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign MANIFESTO Against the Crossrail hole Bill
28-12-2005 09:15
KHOODEELAR! NEWS Released at 0800 Hrs London Wednesday 28 December 2005 BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA MANIFESTO AGAINST the Crossrail hole Bill.The future composition of the Council in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets will depend very much on the conduct of over the Crossrail hole of those candidates seeking election to the Council at the scheduled polls in May 2006.
Incineration campaigns spread around the country like wildfire
26-12-2005 22:24
Campaign groups against incineration and landfill have started all over the country, including Sheffield, where a new incinerator being build urged campaign group R.A.B.I.D. ('Residents Against Bernard Road Incinerator Damage') to get into action, with local politicians [1] [2] stating the new facility will 'put the publics health at risk'. Also, the massive enlargement of the Parkwood Landfill site, with an increase from 266,000 tonnes to 1 million tonnes a year, urged local residents to step up their campaigns. Their ongoing investigation into the proposals is raising more questions than answers. Residents are beginning to see a possible link emerging between the new massive incinerator in Sheffield, which is nearing completion, and the proposals for the enlargement of the landfill site. The expansion of the landfill site, proposed by owners Viridor Waste Management, would enable the ash from the new Bernard Roads incinerator to be dumped there. See photos.
Nottingham has recently seen an uprising by local residents in the area of Sneinton to stop the local incinerator from expanding and to demand better recycling facilities. Last year the campaign group NAIL (Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill) was set up to stop the incinerator burning waste in the middle of the city. When owners Waste Recycling Group (WRG) submitted an application for expansion, the campainers stepped up their campaign. Last Monday over 30 people took action against the local Environment Agency. On Saturday artists and residents in Sneinton organised the 'Rubbish Day Out'. A well attended event, organised to raise awareness of the incinerator expansion and to promote recycling through interactive workshops.
A campaign group has also been set up in Mansfield, just north of Nottingham, where there are plans to build a new mixed waste burning unit at the Crown Farm Industrial Estate in the Forest Town area. Campaign group MAIN (Mansfield Against Incineration) has held several well attended public meetings since early summer. Mansfield MP Alan Meale gave his support to the group. Both NAIL and MAIN are supported by Greenpeace, Notts Friends of the Earth, Nottingham Green Party and CABS (Clean Air for Bakersfield and Sneinton).
Previous actions: include a demonstration in Nottingham city centre, a banner drop (which is still going on), a protest at the WRG promotional exhibition, and a public meeting back in September. Nottinghamshire Indymedia has been working on a short film about the campaign which will be online soon.
Links: Nottinghamshire Indymedia | Sheffield Indymedia | NAIL website | R.A.B.I.D website | View planning application for expansion Nott'm incinerator | Previous feature articles on Nott'm Indymedia: [1] [2] [3] | UK Indymedia articles on incineration | Wikipedia on incineration | Links to other campaign groups in the UK.
Activist Commits Suicide in US Jail
26-12-2005 20:08
At 7a.m. on the 22nd of December, Bill Rodgers, a long-time community activist arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on radical activists in the US was found dead in his cell. The authorities have called it a suicide.Action on Climate Change planned for 7th January
26-12-2005 16:04
In light of the growth in avaiation pollution and its detrimental effects on the climate, the Nottingham Dissent group invites you to a demo against flying on Sat 7th January 2006. Meet outside the council house at 12 noon. We have flyers, but would welcome people to bring banners, cotumes, improvised street theatre. We will be having a tour of the local travel operators and their clients to convince them that flying is not the best way to get to your holiday destination unless you want to totally screw the planets atmosphere.
Nottingham's Third World Recycling
24-12-2005 15:05
In a recent recycling and composting league table*, (April 1, 2004 - March 31, 2005) Nottingham City has come an appalling 341st out of 393 local authorities, with a pitiful recycling rate of just 8.72% and a composting rate of 5.28%, totalling 14%. Nottingham's recycling rate is just 3% higher than the worst in the country.Creative working the way forward - a photo report from Nottingham
23-12-2005 15:58
More and more artists within Nottingham seem to join the recycling art craze, as tetra-packs, plastic bages and cans are brought to new life. In the last few weeks various workshops were organised in the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields and the Old School Hall in Sneinton. The Rubbish Day Out in Sneinton was organised to raise awareness of recycling and waste issues. Here a collection of photo's from people who think creative workshops are fun and the way forward to promote environmental and social issues.
Crossrail hole Bill - NO CAMPAIGN warns Alistair Darling MP on Xrailk ££ abuse
23-12-2005 13:09
100 Hrs GMT Friday 23 December 2005-12-23To Alistair Darling MP
Dear Alistair,
Questions to ALISTAIR DARLING (MP, Secretary of State, UK Transport Department) about the 'uses' and abuses of the £100M he (A Darling) has just granted for CROSSRAIL promotion
1. The statement made on your behalf in the (UK) House of Lords by your colleague (the peer called Davies) refers in effect to the ‘power’ as being made available in section 6 of the Railways Act 2005 when you had made the grant of £100Million available to the Cross London railway (CLRL).
2. However, the contents of Section 6 of the Railways Act 2005 do not show any requirement that the fund/s made available under the statute (‘The Railways Act 2005’) will have to be publicly accounted for and that a rigourous and independent and publicly inspectable and needed regime of accountability and justification would prevail over and around all the uses of the granted public fund/s.
3. That raises the most obvious possibility that a part (or more) of the fund/s may well be open to abuse and in the context of the FACTS of the many corrupt tendencies that have been shown by the main bands of the anti-society, anti-social, pro-sleaze promoters of the Crossrail hole Bill plans as far as these violate the very future stability, existence of the community in the Brick Lane London E1 Area, the chances of such abuses are very real.
4. As we have shown during the past 2 years in our representations, in our analyses and in the evidence against the plan for a Crossrail hole in the Brick Lane London E1 Area and as we have also highlighted those in our questions put to you against the Crossrail hole plans and against the Crossrail hole Bill,
5. Identified members of the controlling group on the present Tower Hamlets Council have made several totally untruthful statements in the area quite wrongly and unlawfully and dishonestly ‘asserting’ that the Crossrail hole attacks as planned on the community would mean that there would be ‘benefits’.
6. The identified pluggers have all been associated with the controlling group on the present Tower Hamlets Council. Either they have been members of the Council. Or they have been overly paid agents or contractors and employees of the present Council.
7. No member of the public in the Borough of Tower Hamlets who is not linked with the controlling group on the present Tower Hamlets Council has said or implied that there could be anything but disaster for the community unless the Crossrail hole plan in the Brick Lane London E1 Area is stopped completely.
8. Your granting of such a large amount of public cash to the secretly operated CLRL makes it very possible for substantial misuse in promoting the series of lies for a Crossrail hole by temporarily diverting or distorting the focus of the community's attention with the abuse of funds that may well be channelled into the hands of elements that the CLRL and your Department wishes to influence in order that the Crossrail, hole plan would remain as it is in the Crossrail Bill.
9. What is the actual mechanism that is in place to show that our observation and analysis and apprehension are not factually founded?
European film crew visits Spodden Valley.
22-12-2005 21:56
BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE ATTACKS exposes abuse of 'MPs'
21-12-2005 22:36
BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA NO TO CROSSRAIL HOLE ATTACKS Campaign focus on the Facts Of Another Crass Payment by Tony Blair To the big business interests, Crossrail Promoters, of £100 Million Of Public Cash! Blaire’s Transport front man Alistair Darling Shows Two Fingers To ‘Parliamentary accountability’ and to the MPs Select Committee on the Crossrail hole Bill’!Climate Chaos - read (and weep) all about it
21-12-2005 21:51
World Meteorological Organisation statement on the global climate in 2005Rising tide's actions Saturday 16th December 2005
19-12-2005 18:01
Rising Temps and Hurricanes Break Records i
18-12-2005 22:53
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Santas Against Excessive Consumption invade Oxford Street
18-12-2005 18:49
Land Roots: Benefit gig in Nottingham. What's it all about
17-12-2005 20:30
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We are part of a growing movement of people and grass roots organisations that are holding out the seeds of hope for a healthy future for us all. LAND ROOTS invites you to help plant these seeds
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On Ecological Utopias
16-12-2005 17:14
The total commercialization of the world has triumphed.. A dynamic of growth withdrawal could be initiated through a few simple measures.. Internalizing the costs would drastically change our societies.. Democratic local initiatives are realistic.An Ethical Way to Get Rid of Unwanted Christmas Gifts
16-12-2005 07:17
There's a new ethical way to get rid of unwanted Christmas gifts - swap them for stuff you do want, online.