Nottinghamshire | Nottinghamshire Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Italian company ICOP applying for tunnel tender

Italian company ICOP are currently applying for the tender to build the tunnel for the Shell onshore high pressure raw gas pipeline. The local community have been resisting Shell for the last 10 years and are fighting to protect their health, safety and environment.

Proposed Law would make Minorca type applications History.

29-06-2010 19:52 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Birmingham | Nottinghamshire

Andrew Bridgen MP for North West Leicestershire is to introduce a Bill into the House of Commons that would introduce 500 metre buffer zones between areas of opencast mining and areas of settlement in England as already exists in Wales and Scotland

united utilities /rrs /this is the incinerator companies record

rrs plan many incinerators in uk .thier prototype incinerator on th e isle of wight has bee shut down for now breaching dioxins they are also responsoble for the floods in cockermouth cumbria .they filled the resavoiur above to the brim . then heavy rains came .houses flooded ,bridges washed away .apoliceman died .yet to be dealt with now they build deadly incinerators causing child deaths cancers ect in the uk .stop them now

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stop incinerators being built .they cause deaths and cancers

over 50 incinerators planned in uk they cause child deaths cancers ect .please help fight to stop them being built ,over 40 facebook sites , packed with info

Chairperson sympathises with Minorca Petitioners

18-06-2010 12:18 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Birmingham | Nottinghamshire

This press release brings you right up to date with yesterdays events and subsequent developments on UK Coal's Minorca Opencast Mine Application.

Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk - More on the Minorca Petition

15-06-2010 19:21 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Birmingham | Nottinghamshire

This press release gives more information about out petition to Leicestershire County Council including the text of the petition. Our petition takes the form of being a grievance against LCC for not taking a decision on the Minorca Opencast Application.

UK arrests & raids, possibly climate action related

27-05-2010 21:23 | Climate Chaos | Repression | Terror War | Nottinghamshire

At lunchtime on Wednesday 26th May two addresses in Belper, Derbyshire, were raided by the North Yorkshire Counter Terrorist Unit.

Critical Mass - next Friday!

18-05-2010 17:34 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Free Spaces | Nottinghamshire

Critical Mass seems to have gone into hibernation in recent months... which is a shame because it is needed more than ever. All cyclists and other non-motorised transport users are invited to meet in Market Square at 5pm on Friday 28th May to restart this great tradition.

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Our new MP is the first to sign our petition urging a decision on UK Coal's .

16-05-2010 20:05 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Birmingham | Nottinghamshire

This press release carries news of MOPG's meeting with North West Leicestershire's new M.P. Andrew Bridgen, where he was not only the first person to sign our petition asking LCC for a decision on the Minorca Application, but also would take other issues of concern to the heart of the new Coalition Government.

Dissident Island Radio - 7 May 2010 broadcast - check it out!

Listen to the show, available for download now...

Leicestershire County Council: Please make a Decision!!

14-05-2010 05:39 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Nottinghamshire

The Minorca Opencast Protest Group is to launch a Petition asking Leicestershire County Council to make a decision on UK Coal's Minorca Application on July 15th. This decision has already been postponed 6 times and by then residents will have been waiting for over a year which they consider is long enough.

A Year Ago Today

13-04-2010 12:13 | Climate Chaos | Repression | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

The first year anniversary of what has become infamously known as... The 114.

Earth First! Summer Gathering

Earth First! Summer Gathering
Ecological Direct Action without Compromise
Wed 4th Aug - Mon 9th August 2010, Derbyshire

5 days of workshops, skill sharing and planning action, plus low-impact living without leaders.

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Meeting for radical climate action and analysis - Tuesday 16th March

11-03-2010 15:05 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

The next in a series of meetings at the Sumac Centre (245 Gladstone Street,Nottingham NG7 6HX) at 8pm.

second 'open day' at the earth centre - 2 months till take over

hello to all,

there is now only a couple of months before DMBC plan to take bids for the earth centre, its reported that some 30 organisations are interested, we know some of them to be the Police and RTTG. Its an amazing space and could be used to feed a community and educate many children. The plantlife and wildlife are without a voice but they are essential to preserving our culture and environment and are in abundance in and around the earth centre.

RTTG are having another 'open day' on March 31st get your invites quickly by emailing

mike@therttg.org (the welovetheearthcentre campaigners are not allowed on the guest list again!) please go along and make sure the communities and the earths voice is heard!

Radical Climate Action and Discussion Group Meeting, Sumac, Tuesday evening

16-02-2010 12:43 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire

There's going to be a radical climate action and discussion group meeting at the Sumac at 8 on Tuesday 16th.

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Nottingham climate action meeting

27-01-2010 18:26 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire

Live in Nottingham area and interested in talking, organising and taking radical action on climate change and it's causes...?

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East Midlands Vegan Festival,

On 12th December 2009 the 6th East Midlands Vegan Festival returns to The Council House on Nottingham's Old Market Square where, in 2008, we welcomed almost 2000 visitors from across the region! The doors open at 11am, but we welcome help setting up from 9am (and in advance).

Campaiging cyclists on the road from Cambrige to London

Yesterday morning (Friday) around 20 cyclists on a five day journey to London left Cambridge for the final leg of their journey to the climate protests in London.

Buy-Nothing-Day Lincoln

23-11-2009 22:40 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

My Dads Strip Club out again on Buy-Nothing-Day-Release, this time three events in three days in the city of Lincoln

Free Fruit Trees for Forest Fields

16-11-2009 14:47 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Health | Nottinghamshire

FREE FRUIT TREES FOR FOREST FIELDS!
We've got 100 fruit trees to plant in Forest Fields this winter, and we're looking for gardens to plant them in. So if you've got the space - and you don't need as much as you might think - get in touch.

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Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 3

16-11-2009 13:27 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Nottinghamshire

On Saturday 17th october, around one thousand climate activists had attempted to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station in Nottinghamshire, taking direct action with repeated breaches of the security fencing.

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Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 2

16-11-2009 13:20 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Nottinghamshire

On Saturday 17th october, around one thousand climate activists had attempted to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station in Nottinghamshire, taking direct action with repeated breaches of the security fencing.

Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 1

16-11-2009 13:12 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Nottinghamshire

On Saturday 17th october, around one thousand climate activists had attempted to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station in Nottinghamshire, taking direct action with repeated breaches of the security fencing.

15 - 17 January 2010: Peace News Winter Gathering

11-11-2009 11:54 | Anti-militarism | Climate Chaos | Palestine | Nottinghamshire

Join people from across the spectrum of the British peace movement for a weekend of exploration, celebration and empowerment - learning from other movements, struggling with challenging issues, and creating greater cohesion and solidarity in a segmented peace movement.

How Can We Make Copenhagen Work? - Discussion 12th November

06-11-2009 09:33 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

Join us and be part of a panel discussion with leading figures from the organisations behind the forthcoming demonstrations in London on 5th December

Veggies News & Events, inc Lincoln Vegan Fair & ARC Meeting

05-11-2009 00:10 | Animal Liberation | Anti-militarism | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

Having recovered from the 25th Anniversary Weekend, Veggies Catering Campaign has plenty more events coming up supporting vegan, climate action, anti-militarism and animal rights campaigns. We know these are all inter-related and urge others to make the links and give mutual support too.

Nottingham plans for COP 15

04-11-2009 21:31 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

Do you want to shout about Climate Change, but can't make it to Copenhagen? A group from Nottingham will be travelling to Copenhagen for the COP 15 summit. To support them and show solidarity for the protests happening in Copenhagen in December, we are hopeing to organise events closer to home.

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26/10/09: A day to remember in the fight against coal

30-10-2009 20:35 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | Nottinghamshire | Oxford

We defeated E.On’s plans to build the first coal-fired power station in over 30 years, which is definitely something to be proud of. But, as this week’s actions have shown, the fight against coal is far from over and concerned individuals are showing no sign in slowing down their activities.

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