International Energy and Environment Ministers Roundtable
March 15th 2005
"POTS AND PANS NO!SE DEMO!"
The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, 12 noon
March 15th 2005
"POTS AND PANS NO!SE DEMO!"
The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, 12 noon
On 15th March, in the build-up to the G8 Summit in Scotland in July this year the Labour Government will share its future vision of market environmentalism with 20 countries (including the G8 themselves).
So will they practice what they preach or preach what they practice?
£5.5 billion road-building programme to build 200+ new roads.
Airport expansion (12 new runways across Britain); refuse to tax aviation fuel despite government promises to tax polluting industries
£500 million of public money for export guarantees to the oil and gas sector per year in the last three years via the UK Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECGD).
Nuclear energy classed as 'green' with Labour plans for more reactors
Why leave the future stability of the planet in the hands of these profit-driven megalomaniacs as ecological and social justice is pillaged worldwide.
Help us meet the system's violence with creative defiance - join us on the streets in solidarity with the millions around the world already suffering from climate change and other injustices... and above all, make some noise!
SOUND SYSTEM / DRUMS / bring POTS AND PANS.
SEE
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk for further details in the build up to the action.
So will they practice what they preach or preach what they practice?
£5.5 billion road-building programme to build 200+ new roads.
Airport expansion (12 new runways across Britain); refuse to tax aviation fuel despite government promises to tax polluting industries
£500 million of public money for export guarantees to the oil and gas sector per year in the last three years via the UK Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECGD).
Nuclear energy classed as 'green' with Labour plans for more reactors
Why leave the future stability of the planet in the hands of these profit-driven megalomaniacs as ecological and social justice is pillaged worldwide.
Help us meet the system's violence with creative defiance - join us on the streets in solidarity with the millions around the world already suffering from climate change and other injustices... and above all, make some noise!
SOUND SYSTEM / DRUMS / bring POTS AND PANS.
SEE
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk for further details in the build up to the action. 
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racism and land grabbing under the carbon trading greenwash
13.03.2005 19:57
extract from corporate watch:-
Soumitra Ghosh, who works with forest workers in India, worries that such carbon trading will only further global inequality. It has the potential to set up a system, he says, "wherein the poorest and darkest-skinned pay the highest price— with their health, their land, and, in some cases, with their lives — for continued carbon profligacy by the rich.”
from Carbon: Under Kyoto, a Hot Commodity
by Daphne Wysham,
Also check out Where The Trees are a Desert from Carbon Trade Watch ( monocultures, pesticide pollution and landgrabbing )and The Sky Is Not the Limit to understand the human cost of this neoliberalist greenwash and moneymaking exercise for those greedy arses in the Square Mile.
Even some supposedly 'respectable'(sic) people and groups seem to have got caught up in this bullshit ( green suits! )e.g. Future Forests ( recipients of lots of Glastonbury money see for more details sinkwatch.org "Forest fraud"), and certain 'green' jobs directories advertising carbon trading consulant vacancies!
Re the remergence of the nuclear lobby sees General Motors, Carbon Casino Conultants and American Electric in bed together looking at Generation IV nuclear technology to produce hydrogen for their cars. Speaking to a director of American Electric at COP9 he denied the development of new reactors. Which ius funny because at the same time the US propaganda stand at the conference was promoting this technology ( and Dubya as a bit of an eco-warrior! ).
There currently does not appear to be much interest from CND who used to have a 'Nuclear Power No Thanks' campaign. The nuclear fuels lobby was very much in evidence there including a lobby group based in Kensington distributing leaflets entitled "12 reasons to choose nuclear".
What other reasons do you need to turn up and make a difference?
rev green
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13.03.2005 20:16
text:- America’s the leader in technology and innovation. We all believe technology offers great promise to offer significant reduce greenhouse gas emissions" -
George Bush
or what I think he is actually saying is "an opportunity to continue polluting, make a lot of fast cash out of it, screw the rest of the planet, and irradiate everything"
Would he look good signing up to Kyoto? It wouldn't stop the pollution. It's a great PR exercise up his sleeve and an opportunity for carbon dollars. What do you think?
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photo mistake
13.03.2005 23:40
whoops