Coal, Climate & Environmental Racism - Grassroots Resistance talks!

WEDNESDAY 16th JAN - SUMAC CENTRE
245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX 0845 458 9595

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5 - 6 pm Popular Education Training for Trainers
Exercises & Games around climate change & environmental justice developed touring over four months and 40 cities in the North America (many inspired by Trapese)

7:30 - Vegan Food for donations

8pm - 9ish Photo Stories of grassroots & indigenous resistance
* Blockading coal ships and coal infrastructure at the largest coal port in the world in Australia.
* Local resistance to the devastation of 'Mountain Top Removal' coal mining in Appalachia, USA
* The Navajo resisting relocation for coal mining in Arizona, USA.
* Land occupations in the remote threatened alpine wetlands of New Zealand under threat of open cast mining & supporting rail blockades and lock-downs.
* Plus.. Nukes not an solution.. the parallels of coal with
Uranium mining on aboriginal lands in the Australian red centre

http://risingtide.org.uk/pdfs/coalresist.pdf

And check out:

http://risingtide.org.au

http://risingtidenorthamerica.org

http://www.savehappyvalley.org.nz

http://www.blackmesais.org/

http://www.foe.org.au/indigenous

http://ilovemountains.org/

Keep coal in the ground

Additions

correction

08.01.2008 13:16

This is not actually a film showing - sorry! It is a talk with photos - should be good though!

sooty

Comments

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Peak Coal and the Fischer-Tropsch process

08.01.2008 11:09

Of course it needs to be left in the ground to try to mitigate the climate crisis, however with the likes of China and the US military looking at using the Fischer-Tropsch process (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process ) to produce liquid fuel from coal this is going to be a very hard battle to win.

It appears that we are looking at 2025-ish for global peak coal (peak oil appears to have happened already or is imminent) -- check out this excellent roundup of the coal situation by Chris Vernon:

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2726/

For a good overview of the current situation see Nafeez Ahmed's talk and series of articles:

The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/388961.html

Chris

POSTPONED!

16.01.2008 17:29

Please note..this has been postponed due to illness - see later post (Weds 16th jan)

Sumacian

coal / fossils in poland

28.03.2008 15:51

For every tonne of coal mined, only 25kg gets used by man... says a nice English-speaking man in Vroswav geology institute. After seeing some pieces of carbon with shapes of fern leaves and stuff imprinted, he's just taken me through some of the finer points of the fascinating question of carbon fossils. Though it's unscientific, he used the analogy of mining side-effects, "The breathe of Gaia" being huge and complex. An other example being frozen methane clathrate seen to spontaneously bubble out from under the sea.
He said something amazing about emissions from coal-mining.

Ben
mail e-mail: benzoylation@skypenames.net