UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Yemen, Energy Crisis, and the Nigerian Crotch Bomber
21-01-2010 15:11
On Christmas Day, 2009, 23-year old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, allegedly tried to blow up a plane on route from Amsterdam to Detroit by detonating a device stitched to his underwear. Fortunately, in yet another example of the level of sophistication of the new league of violent extremists, Abdulmutallab succeeded only in setting fire to his own crotch, before being apprehended by fellow passengers.
Neo-con Senator Lisa Murkowski wants to pollute and kill the planet
20-01-2010 14:17
An Alaska Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski, is expected to put forward a proposal for a vote as early as tomorrow that would seek to prevent the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.Obama faces emissions U-turn with new Congress challenge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/19/obama-emissions-congress-murkowski
Green Solutions, Not Nuclear Greenwash! - Demo at London Nuclear Conf, 26 Jan
14-01-2010 20:59
Tuesday 26 January, 2010, 8.30am – 10.30am, Guoman Charing Cross Hotel, The Strand, London WC2N 5HX (next to Charing Cross railway station)
Map / directions:
http://tinyurl.com/GuomanMap Nearest tube: Charing Cross / Embankment
Conference website:
http://c5nuclear.com Dress code (optional): White overalls and gas mask / paper mask
http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2010/01/green-solutions-not-nuclear-greenwash.html Is the United Kingdom facing a natural gas shortage?
09-01-2010 23:16
The United Kingdom's current winter is the coldest one since December 1981, with sustained temperatures between 0 ° and -15 ° Celsius (5 ° to 32 ° Fahrenheit). These low temperatures pushed gas demand up to 463 million cubic meters (MCM) on 8 January 2010. This level was higher than the previous record of 449 MCM reached in 2003, and more than 100 MCM above normal seasonal demand.
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Climate Camp Reader
09-01-2010 20:51
Dysophia and Shift Magazine have joined forces to put together a Climate Camp Reader, “Criticism without Critique”, published in January 2010. This reader hopes to encourage and faciliate debates at the next climate camp gatherings. To download it follow this link: http://dysophia.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/cca_reader.pdf The editorial is posted below:
Offshore Wind Farms in the High Seas!
08-01-2010 18:52
The Great Nuclear Power Debate - Mon 11 Jan, 7.30pm, London
08-01-2010 13:41
http://www.bwtuc.org.uk/meetings.aspx?meetingID=42 The government are claiming that building nuclear power plants across the UK will help deal with the problems of climate change and unemployment.
But does nuclear power hold the answer to these problems or does it simply detract from developing other solutions for climate change?
Sleeping with the Enemy: TCKTCKTCK in bed with EDF, world’s leading nuclear corp
07-01-2010 10:04
http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/eyes-wide-shut-tck-tck-tck-expose-from-activist-insider/ EYES WIDE SHUT | TckTckTck exposé from activist insider
The mainstream environmental movement no longer inspires nor leads society to an enlightened existence – it simply bows down to the status quo.
Who Really Deserves the Fossil Fool Award? TckTckTck or us?
The largest climate change campaign in the world is in bed with the world’s most powerful corporations.
Video - Treesit in Hamburg against a proposed pipeline (3.Jan.10)
05-01-2010 22:54
Since the 18.12.09 ROBIN WOOD-Activists squat several trees in the Gählerpark in Hamburg Altona to impende the contruction of a heating pipeline for the planned coal power plant Hamburg Moorburg, which would mean the loss of the trees in the park. The company proposing the pipeline is Vattenfall, a Swedish corporation. With their protest they support two residents who have squattet two trees already at 3rd of december.Heads in the Sand? Or, Why Don’t Governments Talk about Peak Oil?
05-01-2010 18:07
There is a train crash about to happen from an energy point of view. But politicians everywhere seem to have entirely missed the scale of the problem… [G]overnments and multilateral agencies have failed to recognize the imminence and scale of the global oil supply crunch, and most of them remain completely unprepared for its consequences.1
Climate Protestors in Court Following Defacing of Canadian Flag
05-01-2010 17:26
Court charged with criminal damage against the Canadian High Commission in
London following an action to stop the Tar Sands..
Cop-enhagen: Seattle's Coming Out Party?
27-12-2009 14:52
Was Copenhagen the Coming out party for the movement born in Seattle? Probably not, but important alliances and discussions were started here that must be continued into the future.Rotten Borough of Rushmoor rejects 10:10 greenhouse gas reduction
18-12-2009 15:33
The Rotten Borough of Rushmoor has refused to support the 10:10 campaign for a reduction in CO2 emissions of 10% by 2010.When the other Miliband came to town
17-12-2009 15:27
Last week Ed Miliband came to Manchester for a chat. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change dropped in for a discussion about the stakes of climate change and the government’s plans before jetting off to Copenhagen for this week’s highly-anticipated UN Conference. MULE was in attendance, and not that surprised to be treated to an exercise in spin…Contractor's van sabotaged at Mainshill
16-12-2009 20:22
Climate Activists Invade Meeting of Senior Politicians in Copenhagen
15-12-2009 16:46
Report from Cop-enhagen
15-12-2009 09:37
The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first place, can get lost.Climate Activists Tell Canada: Don’t Cop Out On COP 15!
14-12-2009 18:08
Exxon Man Spotted at Copenhagen
11-12-2009 10:10
With the world watching, well, those who give a toss, anyway, it's all going down in Copenhagen at the mo.....Exxon were sure to send their "man on the ground"...........here's an article i fished off the net about how the oil barons are making themselves heard......The Amazon Dilemma
09-12-2009 20:25
The climate change conference in Copenhagen is set to be one of the most important meetings of countries this milleniumum. The key players here are not only the huge economic giants but the small Islands and countries that have the most to lose. As time runs out a group of nations sit on the edge.