UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Anti-nuclear activists currently blockading EDF in London
11-04-2011 07:33
ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE QUEEN’S BACK YARD TO BRAND ENERGY GIANT’S NUCLEAR POWER BID A ‘RIGHT ROYAL RIP-OFF’Photos available soon at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mini_mouse/5592365881/ Campaigners brought rush hour traffic to a standstill this morning to protest against EDF Energy’s plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK. All four lanes of the A302 outside EDF Energy’s headquarters in Grosvenor Place – which runs alongside the gardens of Buckingham Palace – were sealed off shortly after 8am using 14-foot tripods. The cleared zone was then declared a ‘nuclear disaster area’.
Fear & Loathing in Fukishima
10-04-2011 17:22
George Monbiot : State infiltrator
09-04-2011 14:00
Monbiot is the public-school son of two active ultra-right wing Tory extremists, and he has done his Nazi parents proud. He has subverted the environmental movement in the UK more than any other state infiltrator. He is the personification of green-washing, and anyone who still admires this obvious shit should be excluded from any genuinely progressive movement. Let's stick to facts.The Great BP-sponsored Sleep-in Flash Mob
07-04-2011 14:57
Sunday 17 April 2011, 2PM at Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG.To mark the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, join us for ‘The great BP-sponsored sleep-in’, a 4-minute flashmob art installation inside Tate Modern. Imagine the turbine hall of this former power station filled with BP-branded sleeping figures, who will soon wake from their BP-sponsored coma to sound the climate alarm.
Nuclear plant will release 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea
04-04-2011 11:18
The electricity company TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) has said that it will release 11,500 tons of contaminated radioactive water into the sea.
Shells road torn up!!
03-04-2011 10:45
BP and Culture: Time To Break It Off!
01-04-2011 13:22
A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spaces9-10 April: Fukushima Solidarity / No to Nuclear: A call to action
31-03-2011 16:32
You could stage a vigil, die-in, demo, non-violent direct action, street stall, street theatre, public debate, film showing, gig… Whatever takes your fancy!**
Earth First Summer Gathering: Update and Workshop Callout
31-03-2011 09:47
This year's Earth First Summer Gathering is currently being organised. If anyone would like to run workshops or have discussions around please get in contact.
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efsummergathering2011announce@lists.riseup.net Japan: Triple Meltdown
30-03-2011 21:50
26/4 01:23 25 years on - a visual shocker
30-03-2011 15:36
4 Actions against Shell in their first day of work in Rossport, Ireland
30-03-2011 13:32
Legal challenge to nuclear power stations launched
29-03-2011 15:57
Oldbury is due to stop generating electricity at the end of 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6705243.stm Yet it continues!
Plutonium Found - Fukushima Update
28-03-2011 21:24
Helen Caldicott on the Nuclear Disaster in Japan
26-03-2011 04:42
World-famous anti-nuclear campaigner and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott in a major interview on the multiple reactor accident at Fukushima Japan. How to read through media misinformation, what this means for the nuke industry, including Europe, which may be severely damaged by a similar accident (or even radioactive pollution from "normal" operation of these plants. A historic interview.Switch your lights ON for Earth Hour!
24-03-2011 11:14
Helen Caldicott on Japan Nuke Disaster
24-03-2011 05:19
Green Investment Banksy decorates the entrance of the Treasury
23-03-2011 12:18
Shells Work Stopped for 4 hours
22-03-2011 22:21
This morning 5 members of the Rossport solidarity camp blockaded Shell Oil from accessing thier proposed compound in Glengad Co.Mayo.JAPAN Nuke Emergency Continues!
21-03-2011 16:17