UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Proposed new London airport: Boris’s idea will never fly
20-01-2012 14:45
Wednesdays announcement that the government will hold a consultation in the spring on a new airport in the Thames Estuary, dubbed 'Boris Island' sparked a long day of media hysteria.Heavy Weather: SchNEWS ponders the climate of activism against extreme energy
15-01-2012 21:24
With deaths attributed to climate change now nearing an estimated 350,000 a year
http://ignatianeconet.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/close-to-ten-million-climate-deaths-by-2030-study-warns/ and with the annual COP17 UN climate talks just over, SchNEWS looks at the events of the last few years and assesses where we are heading.
Demonstration in London in Solidarity with Bulgarian Anti-Fracking Protests
15-01-2012 13:23
SchNEWS: Not In My Frack Yard
13-01-2012 20:40
Caudrilla execs left quaking in their boots after angry fracking meeing
The week saw two large public meetings on the fracking – the process of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, one on either side of the Pond. The first took place in the old steel town of Youngstown, Ohio- held on Tuesday in the wake of a magnitude 4.0 earthquake, the latest in a series of 11 over the last 12 months. The earthquakes are linked to an injection well disposing of fracking fluid (a mix of groundwater and industrial chemicals). The second took place in the sleepy, extremely affluent commuter belt village of Balcombe, in Sussex, just north of the Ouse Valley Viaduct on the London to Brighton railway line. Cuadrilla Resources, made infamous by their earthquake producing facilities in Lancashire, have planning permission to drill a test well south of the village. The process has been compared to setting off a small nuclear bomb underground. Needless to say there are some ruffled feathers in well manicured lawns of this community.
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#OccupyOil
07-01-2012 15:06
The Crisis of Civilization January Screenings
06-01-2012 23:30
Details of January screenings of The Crisis of Civilization: a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
We will be adding yet more screenings as they are confirmed, so keep an eye out for further details!
Oil Shock - The No Growth World
05-01-2012 00:25
Occupy Nigeria: Civil Society, Labour Unions To Engage In Series Of Mass Action In January 2012
04-01-2012 09:01
This revelation was made today by the National Convener of the group ,Jaye Gaskia, at a press briefing. Gaskia said that the group would mobilize all Nigerian and other organized bodies for permanent street protest which would cut across the country if Government go a finally go ahead with the removal of the fuel subsidy.
The group which comprises of Action Aid , United Action for Democracy (UAD), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC).
#Occupy Nigeria Has Begun!
03-01-2012 11:57
Call it the Nigerian Spring if you like. but whatever you choose to call it, Nigerians have begun to come out against the government’s unpopular decision to remove the subsidy on fuel. Reports reaching us indicate that protest pockets are beginning to form all over the country, and the momentum is beginning to build. Might the government have understimated the will of its citizens this time? We’re keenly following the developments. A huge portion of this action is being coordinated via social media, especially on Twitter, where the hashtags to follow are #occupynigeria and #fuelsubsidy. You can also view our curated Storify feed of Nigeria’s reactions to the fuel Subsidy removal.
Winter blues - How energy companies are making a killing
30-12-2011 11:32
Fukushima: The Big Lie
29-12-2011 01:34
Gardai rendered powerless as campaigners blockade Shell’s compound
03-12-2011 23:19
Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power
03-12-2011 14:47
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed spent the first half of the post 2001 decade analysing the West's Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period (2005), The Secret History of International Terrorism (2006) and the role of the West in Creating Terror (2006). Following this he moved on to analysing the The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis (2008) and the Food Crisis & Peak Oil (2008). His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), has now been adapted into a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011) and it had it's first UK screening in Leeds, in November. Read on for an analysis of the multiple global crisis's facing humanity and the hope that a movement to change the course the 1% have society set on can be changed by the 99%, Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
Bristol anti- Fracking protesters shut down the country’s only hydrolic fracturi
01-12-2011 09:10
Ministry blocks anti-tar sands law, so we block ministry's front door
28-11-2011 14:40
Mining for tar sands is wrecking the Canadian boreal forest, destroying the homelands of indigenous people, and accelerating dangerous climate change.
So why then is the Department for Transport trying to sabotage legislation that would block tar sands oil from European petrol pumps? Looks like they’ve been lobbied hard by the Canadian government and big oil. Now it’s your turn to lobby.
Please write to Nick Clegg*: he needs to tell the ministry to stop standing in the way of green legislation. It's time Clegg acted on the green credentials he keeps talking about.
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http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=18&ea.campaign.id=12858
A success: the tour America banned
28-11-2011 11:09
It was the tour the authorities tried to stop. Dan Glass, the Plane Stupid activist who had superglued himself to Gordon Brown in protest against a third runway at Heathrow, never got a visa to visit America. His fellow speaker, John Stewart, who had chaired the coalition against the third runway, was sent packing back to London when he landed at JFK Airport.
Fracking Gas = Climate Crash
23-11-2011 04:52
5 Years to Climate Hell
17-11-2011 16:56
Information on the COP17 conference Durban 28 November - 8 December 2011
15-11-2011 12:55
UKZN to accommodate alternative COP17 civil society eventsThe University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has been identified as the site of this year’s COP17 alternative space, known as the ‘People’s Space’, where national and international civil society will come together around the global issue of climate change.
Q and A following UK Premiere of The Crisis Of Civilization
07-11-2011 21:38
