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Vestas Camp update: Green Leader to take Vestas Fight to Europe

Green Party Leader, the Isle of Wight’s Green MEP, and prospective parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP is to visit the Vestas Wind Turbine Blade factory on the IOW on Friday (9TH October). From 11.30 am – 1.30 pm she will be present at the ‘Magic Roundabout’ Solidarity/Protest Camp, St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, IOW. Dr Lucas has arranged to share lunch with the workers and their supporters, to listen and learn more about how she can help the campaign(1). (PHOTO OPPORTUNITY)

'Failure is not an option' for Vestas. It ain't for us either.

'Failure is not an option' for Vestas, according to their Business Strategy. It's not an option for the campaign to save the Newport, Isle of Wight factory either. We have the 'Will to win' that Vestas' CEO claims Vestas' have. The factory will reopen. Wind Turbine Blades will be produced in the UK, for the UK. Workers will be unionised. You never know, the factory might even be a workers' coop.

Investors in Vestas? Sell your shares...

Vestas claim they are 'Number 1. in Modern Energy', and indeed are responsible for developing and installing much of the world's wind/renewable energy. However, they've shown their true colours (not so 'green' after all) this summer - through closing their St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight factory, leading to the loss of 600 jobs. Unions were banned & working conditions deteriorating prior to closure, & 11 workers who occupied the factory to save it have been paid no redundancy. There will be a long-term campaign as a result. Will it effect Vestas Share Price? Watch This Space:

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VWS.CO

Vestas Management promote Community Control

Leafing through company reports is usually a thankless and dull task. No so with Vestas - all sorts of fascinating opinion. Here's to a community buy out of the St. Corss Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight factory by ex-workers, locals, Climate Campers, Bicycologists, Climate Rushers, Workers Liberty, SWP & SP, Green Party, with financial support from Ecotricity and others shall we?

Vestas Workers Solidarity Camp - Photos

Since the removal of the 'Marine Gate' 'Blade Blockade', and the Turbine Blades that remained in the Vestas Blades UK factory on St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, campaigners have been sorting out the original 'Magic Roundabout' Camp, and considering strategy. A Marquee has been erected and a fair amount of furniture skipped / built to make the area comfortable and well-resourced in terms of power (80-odd watts of solar power for phone and laptop charging), a solar shower, and spare tents for visitors.

Get down to Vestas - Occupy, Camp, Resist, Cook, Produce!

There has been a camp outside the Vestas factory on the St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, since at least the beginning of the Occupation of the factory on 20th July this year. The camp has a well established kitchen run by volunteers who serve quality vegan evening meals 'Roundabout 8', with lunch and breakfast also provided and sometimes cooked too. Those who occupied the factory are often present, together with climate campers and those from assorted lefty groups and unions. Get down there and join 'em! ...and take some cake with ya!

An agenda for the Copenhagen climate talks

We have had enough of hot air, vague promises of action in the distant future, we need concrete proposals, action now.

How to Get to Vestas - go there now!

It's really important that people get down to Vestas ASAP to prevent the last few Wind Turbine Blades remaining in the St Cross Business Park, Newport, IOW factory, and in Southampton Docks, from leaving to America. This is a really good piece of leverage to argue for reinstatement of sacked workers, better redundancy packages, installation of the blades on turbines in the UK, a buyout of the factory and worker control of it, and better Energy and Climate Change policies from govt, businesses, trade unions, individuals etc. Get on it!

Urgent: Vestas Blade Blockade Needs You

Activists outside the Vestas factory on the St Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight have been tipped off that Tuesday at 12 noon a 'Blade Runner' barge is coming down the river Medina to the Vestas factory from Southampton to pick up some of the remaining blades still inside the factory. Those present expect a big police presence along with big support from other supporters and activists. They claim they are prepared to do anything and everything to stop Vestas from shipping these blades or from getting anything into the factory if that’s their plan.

Dawn at Vestas Blade Blockade

The Blade Blockade at the (once Occupied) Vestas Wind Turbine Blade Factory at the St Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight was served a letter before claim type notice of eviction from WIGGUN solicitors the other day. We took some nice photos of the dawn the day after to encourage people to visit (on yer way to Calais, natch). Climbers, cooks and nocturnal creatures particularly warmly welcomed. The fires are still burning!

Critique of Climate Camp action 17/18 October

16-09-2009 11:09 | Energy Crisis | Technology | World

“It’s time to start imagining a future without coal” says the call-out. Oh no! Not that crap again! If anything was going to put thoughtful people off this action, silly rhetoric like that does the trick. It’s like trying to build opposition to Donald Trump’s plans to turn acres of sand dunes near Aberdeen into a golf course for the rich, or golf courses in general, by urging people to imagine a future without grass.

help stop cyclamax build a incinerator that will burn nuclear /toxic waste

14-09-2009 15:54 | Energy Crisis | Health | World

this incinerator is planned for an area with high cancer rates already .if built children could be born abnormal

Switch Off Hazelwood

14-09-2009 13:17 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | World

Direct action to shut down Hazelwood coal-fired power station, the largest producer of carbon emissions in Australia, one of the dirtiest industrial plants in the world.

Vestas Blade Blockade Steps Up The Pressure By Setting Up A Tripod at Sunsrise

On the morning of Thursday 10 September a tripod has now successfully been erected at the marine gate preventing blades from leaving the factory. A worker from the original occupation is currently standing at the top of the tripod as the blockade prepares for an increase in activity on both sides.

Afghanistan's First Oil and Gas Licensing Round

09-09-2009 16:10 | Energy Crisis | Other Press | Terror War | World

If evidence were ever needed as to the resilience of oil companies and their willingness to do business in some of world’s most hostile environments then surely it would be worth drawing on the story of Afghanistan.

Drax 29

09-09-2009 14:29 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | World

The Drax 29 hijacked a train on the way to a coal-fired power station, an action of civil disobedience to highlight an environmental crime.

Climate Swoop and COP 15 Mobilisation Call Out

This is going to be hot Autumun of Climate Action - we are are oprganising a mobilisation tour of the UK and we need your help! Local groups from all over the country are being called upon to organise and resist!

Stop Ffos-Y-Fran. InformAction

05-09-2009 13:20 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | World

"This opencast mine is a massive scheme that will blight our lives for at least the next 17 years, and it's only 37 Metres from the nearest housing estate and edge of a large community! We are suffering desperately with the noise from the operation (60dbA+ at times and regularly at 55dbA) and - to varying degrees governed by the topography, weather conditions, and wind direction - from the dirt and dust output also."

http://www.stopffosyfran.co.uk/index.html

O2 Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising

30-08-2009 11:50 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Other Press | World

New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating since 2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom; climate policies that focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans -- Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

An Afternoon @ The Ravens Ait Island Occupation Ecological Community Centre

24-08-2009 17:03 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Free Spaces | World

Ravens Ait Island was occupied and an ecological community centre was created - negotaitons were in process with Kingston council when on 1st May 2009
around 4.15am this morning around 100 commandos stormed Ravens Ait island
they arrived in 27 black zodiac inflatables

World Energy Crisis Newswire Archive

Vestas Camp update: Green Leader to take Vestas Fight to Europe

'Failure is not an option' for Vestas. It ain't for us either.

Investors in Vestas? Sell your shares...

Vestas Management promote Community Control

Vestas Workers Solidarity Camp - Photos

Get down to Vestas - Occupy, Camp, Resist, Cook, Produce!

An agenda for the Copenhagen climate talks

How to Get to Vestas - go there now!

Urgent: Vestas Blade Blockade Needs You

Dawn at Vestas Blade Blockade

Critique of Climate Camp action 17/18 October

help stop cyclamax build a incinerator that will burn nuclear /toxic waste

Switch Off Hazelwood

Vestas Blade Blockade Steps Up The Pressure By Setting Up A Tripod at Sunsrise

Afghanistan's First Oil and Gas Licensing Round

Drax 29

Climate Swoop and COP 15 Mobilisation Call Out

Stop Ffos-Y-Fran. InformAction

O2 Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising

An Afternoon @ The Ravens Ait Island Occupation Ecological Community Centre

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