Nottinghamshire | Nottinghamshire Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Don't send A Cow - Plant A Tree!

25-01-2007 18:01 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | Nottinghamshire

Nottingham vegan campaigners Veggies Catering Campaign have created a Google Bomb which expodes myths about animals ab/used by charity schemes.

Start on Tunstall Northern Bypass

12-01-2007 22:20 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Birmingham | Nottinghamshire

Birse Civils Limited have started to set up a compound in Scotia Valley, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent

M1 widening contract announced

09-01-2007 13:51 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

The contract to widen the M1 from J23-28, around Nottingham, has been announced. We will resist this!

Support Lindhurst Wind Farm

02-01-2007 17:23 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

Supporters of Lindhurst Wind Farm will be getting more signatures of support in Nottingham on the 13th of January 2007,letting the planners of Mansfield and Newark & Sherwood understand the full support from the people of Nottinghamshire.

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Plane Stupid Newsletter #6

“This is a deeply traumatized community which has been lied to for years and years by the aviation industry and one political party after another. There is a litany of broken promises. I wonder just how you might feel if you had endured all this for years! I am so angry I am almost incandescent with rage at the immorality of it all.”
- A resident of Harmondsworth, near Heathrow

East Mids Climate Camp Meeting

24-11-2006 15:35 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

The 'Eastside' Climate Camp meeting will take place THIS SUNDAY in Nottingham to plan where next for Climate Camp in the East Midlands.

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A Rossport solidarity video

17-11-2006 13:27 | Rossport Solidarity | Climate Chaos | Repression | Nottinghamshire

Here is a short video in support of the people of Mayo who are struggling against Shell's destruction of theor environent.

Emergency Call Out Nottingham Shell action

A protester was run down by a car at a Shell petrol station in Nottingham just an hour ago. We think this story should get out there to national press and activists around the country. Any witnesses please contact us so we can get the details to the press.

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Nigel Turner, Chief Executive of BMI Airways is comming to Nottingham

08-11-2006 17:17 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

Nigel Turner, Chief Executive of BMI Airways will be in Nottingham at Park Plaza Hotel, Maid Marion Way, Nottingham
on Friday 10 November 2006

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Anti M1 widening banner drop in Nottinghamshire

30-10-2006 15:37 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

Activists in Nottinghamshire dropped banners off several M1 bridges as part of a co-ordinated banner drop along the length of the M1 to object to plans to widen it.

M1 action from Luton to Sheffield

30-10-2006 15:37 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

Banners were unfurled across M1 motorway bridges from Luton to Sheffield today as the Stern report on climate change was published. The M1 is due to be widened from Luton to Leeds, at a cost to the tax payer of £3.74 billion. The widening will allow traffic to grow and cause more CO2 emissions. Road transport is currently 21 per cent of UK emissions and rises every year.

Banner Protest at Motorway Widening

30-10-2006 15:32 | Climate Chaos | Leeds Bradford | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

Protestors from Luton, Nottingham, Luton, Derby and Sheffield today dropped banners with slogans such as "Stop Climate Change" and "More Cars = More CO2" from bridges over the M1 motorway today in protest at the governments plans to widen 115 miles of the road to 4 lanes in both direction.

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Saints Arrested - Christian Witness and Climate Change

30-09-2006 13:31 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire

The Reverend Malcolm Carroll, Baptist Minister, has been "doing a Saint Paul" this week, getting himself arrested to give his Christian witness to the atrocious rise in Carbon Dioxide emissions from air travel in the United Kingdom.

northern eco-action gathering: 11/12th November, Leeds

The world is on the point of ecological collapse: global temperature rise, species extinction, nuclear waste dumping, depletion of natural resources, deforestation, to name just a few problems. These will not be solved by governments (who make it worse by warring for the remaining resources), but by the people and communities working co-operatively..

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Kids Block at Climate Camp

You’d have thought going out with some kiddie protesters and their parents was going to be pretty safe. But not when a simple march is policed by the London Met - in Yorkshire!

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UK nuclear lobby and Shell in Ireland

Dieter Helm, advisor to Blair and the force behind the push for new nuclear power stations in the UK is set to visit Westport in Mayo, Ireland 4-5th Sept.

Bicycology biketour pedals onwards : Nottingham Pix

Bicycology is a biketour travelling from London to Lancaster (via Nottingham).

Form Lancaster it will be heading to the Climate Action Camp. It visited

Nottingham on Saturday 19th August.

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Mass callout to help build the climate camp

We are calling for all people who can to arrive in Leeds from Monday August 21 and head to the Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ. This is to build all the infrastructure ready to occupy the site. This is a mammoth task and the more people we have the more infrastructure is ready when we occupy the site and the less has to be built there. No DIY knowledge is needed as the highly skilled site practicalities group will be there to make sure everything goes smoothly!