UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Oxford Rides the Wave of Climate Protests
06-12-2009 10:46
Climate Camp sets up at Trafalgar Square
05-12-2009 18:35
Press Release from Camp for Climate Action UKLocal and Regional Resilience Forums now in control of the UK
03-12-2009 23:34
With The World Health Organisation calling down Pandemic Level Six in June 2009, the United Nations via the WHO is now dictating Contingency implementation in all 194 Nation signatory’s to the International Health Regulations (IHR), The UK is a signatory nation.This is being implemented via Regional and Local Resilience Forums.
Cop15: Notes from below
03-12-2009 12:49
This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what lessons, if any, can it learn from its recent past?12/12 demonstration Copenhagen
02-12-2009 16:35
Be part of the party!Copenhagen – COP15 – World Climate Summit
December 12th 2009 a mass demonstration against the COP15 Climate Summit will take place in Copenhagen. A mixture of very different people, groups and organizations are going to participate.
Unfortunately the registered route of the demonstration will directly lead out of the city centre to a barren part of town around the conference building, where it is going to end. It will also not be possible for us to change our mind on the way and turn around in order to bring our protest to public places, as after 30 m the demo will cross a draw-bridge, which can ban us from the inner city in the blink of an eye. This is why we think it is important to make up our minds beforehand, which way we want to go.
Sheffield Residents to Hold Vigil for Climate Justice
30-11-2009 22:34
Residents of Sheffield are being asked to join a candlelit vigil aimed at raisingawareness of the need for a fair and effective climate deal to be made
at the upcoming UN talks in Copenhagen.
hackers hit globalwarming.org : happy buy nothing day!
26-11-2009 12:57
hackers hit CEI : globalwarming.org : happy buy nothing day!see the links on the front page - its play time.
Corporate Watch article on 10:10
26-11-2009 11:33
Corporate Watch explains why 10:10 is at best ineffective and basically greenwash propaganda.
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?query=10%3A10&lid=21&go=GO
UK Rossport Solidarity Gathering Feb 12-14th, Sumac Centre, Nottingham
24-11-2009 16:54
Find out more about the Rossport Solidarity Camp in Co.Mayo, Ireland & how to support the community struggle against Shell in 2010.New Cop15 Book: Carbon Trading: How it Works + Why it Fails (pdf)
24-11-2009 11:04
http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/cc7/cc7_web.pdf Carbon Trade Watch, Transnational Institute
http://carbontradewatch.org/ Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol.
"Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails" outlines the limitations of an approach to tackling climate change which redefines the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal economics. It demonstrates that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the world’s largest carbon market, has consistently failed to ´cap´ emissions, while the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favoursenvironmentally ineffective and socially unjust projects. This isillustrated with case studies of CDM projects in Brazil, Indonesia, India and Thailand.
The 300-350 Show: Civil disobedience for climate justice
23-11-2009 13:00
Bolivian COP-15 delegate's call for civil society to mobilise to Copenhagen
23-11-2009 01:41
On 13th November Bristol Indymedia and Trapese collective filmed an interview with Crisitian Dominguez on his views of the COP15 summit and what his country Bolivia was hoping to achieve at the conference.Find out what he and a Bristol activist had to say on the Bliptv Bristol Indymedia channel link below.
Prosperity Without Growth
22-11-2009 18:23
Dissident Island Radio tonight - Last show of the year!
20-11-2009 19:29
Monbiot on Peak Oil: If Nothing Else, Save Farming
20-11-2009 14:29
George Monbiot's latest article on peak oil is introduced thus: "It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production."Of course governments are doing nothing to transition to the production of food without fossil fuels -- what little is happening is coming from the grass roots, see for example the Soil Associations pages on community supported agriculture:
http://www.soilassociation.org/Takeaction/Getinvolvedlocally/Communitysupportedagriculture/tabid/201/Default.aspx The following article was published in the corporate media and the role that the tiny number of voices like that of George Monbiot play in the bigger picture is considered in the latest Medialens alert:
A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2009/11/442004.html For more background on peak oil and food and what it means, essentially the end of industrial civizilation, listen to this talk by Nafeez Ahmed from last year:
Food Crisis & Peak Oil
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/11/413658.html
Vestas Event tomorrow (sat): Push the Green Button-the Revolution is ON!
20-11-2009 08:31
The Vestas Occupation and continuing campaign caught the imagination of many labour and environmental activists. With Copenhagen coming up, the campaign is bringing together it's disparate elements... Gather in St James Square, Newport, Isle of Wight with friends, colleagues & family. Meet like-minds, swap ideas, and forge new connections for the challenges ahead. At 12 noon ex-Vestas workers who occupied their factory in July, lead the countdown and PUSH THE GREEN BUTTON as we declare the REVOLUTION... ON!Don't Nuke the Climate! - Sat 12 Dec, International Day of Action
18-11-2009 09:28
Organise an event locally for the Don't Nuke the Climate! International Day of Action on Saturday 12 December, and publicise widely! http://www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org/spip.php?rubrique19〈=en
‘End bloody oil!’ Indigenous women bring the fight against Tar Sands to Manch
17-11-2009 12:41
Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting Manchester as part of a 10-day UK tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Tar Sands are devastating indigenous communities and driving global climate change.Coffin at Copenhagen
16-11-2009 17:59
The Copenhagen Climate Change conference next month, once the great hope of environmentalists, had its teeth pulled this week after an accord between China and the United States to postpone an envisaged global treaty that would have set limits to gas and carbon dioxide emissions world-wide.With the main polluters out of the treaty project the conference is a lame duck.
Ironically the disheartening Sino-American accord was reached during President Barack Obama’s visit to Beijing and indicates the Chinese may have used their credit-power - the U.S. owns billions of dollars in trade to Beijing -to bend the U.S. administration to their will and in the process weaken a U.S, president who won his mandate on a pledge to tackle climate change and had proclaimed himself a leader in the battle to save the planet.
Indigenous women accuse RBS and Treasury of funding 'bloody oil'
16-11-2009 14:57
Three Indigenous Canadian women will visit the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) London headquarters tomorrow to demand that they stop financing one of the world’s most polluting projects – the Tar Sands.