UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

20 Mainshill Wood eviction cases in court today

08-04-2010 15:13

The first of many court hearings following the forced eviction of the Mainshill Solidarity Camp is taking place in Lanark Sheriff Court today, with 20 protesters appearing and ready to challenge their Aggravate Trespass charges.

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Camp Against Nuclear New Build - 23-26 April, Sizewell, Suffolk

06-04-2010 15:44

Friday 23rd – Monday 26th April - Chernobyl Weekend

http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net

http://chernobyl-day.org/?lang=en

It's time to step up the campaign against nuclear new build. If we want to stop the next generation of nuclear power stations, now is the time to act. Come and join us for a weekend of networking, protest and info and skill sharing!

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Climate Camp 2008

06-04-2010 14:44

I have just got back my Data Protection Act request stuff concerning Climate camp 2008

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BP Tar Sands Ad Hoax - Video

06-04-2010 12:12

Here is the link to the 2 minute video from Fossil Fools Day when London Rising Tide and the London Tar Sands Network delivered 22,000 new logos to BP HQ. (And of course D-locked a new sign to their front fence). Enjoy.

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BP not welcome in Wantage and Grove

06-04-2010 00:49

No Tar sands and Boycott BP sprayed onto walls in Wantage and Grove.

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Call out for 48 hours of subvertising on the aviation industry

05-04-2010 17:16

Calling all artists, activists, wallpaperers, pencillers and stencillers...............Plane Stupid is inviting all individuals and affinity groups to take part in its very own subvertising competition from Thursday 22nd April - Friday 23rd April 2010.

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Fossil Fools Weekend roundup

05-04-2010 16:15

The West Midlands Climate Action Fossil Fools weekend at the Huntington Lane camp saw people arriving at the camp throughout the four days to help with the ongoing construction of the camp. There was also a banner drop and an attack on the camp before the weekend gathering had even started

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Help us prevent Climate Crisis in Alberta Canada - Take action to keep BP out of

05-04-2010 11:53

THE WORLD IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF CLIMATE CRISIS. But attempts to avert it are being threatened by a massive industry in the Canadian wilderness.

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Rising Tide disrupt Shell in Bristol

02-04-2010 12:13

Activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide visited the Shell garage in Muller Road, Eastville at 8.30am yesterday to highlight the repression experienced by communities in County Mayo, Ireland who are trying to stop Shell building an onshore high pressure pipeline and gas refinery.

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Black Wood protest camp disappears over night to fight another mine, another day

02-04-2010 09:24

The Black Wood Solidarity Camp packed up the night before last and left the site of UK Coal’s new mine at Blair Farm, in Fife. The camp occupied the site for a week and a half to show UK Coal and other mine operators that no new mine or coal infrastructure is safe and out of reach of protesters.

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BP ad campaign hoax kicks off the Fortnight of Shame

01-04-2010 14:38

BP today had to halt the launch of a multi-million pound ‘Back to Black’ ad campaign. That’s right, BP’s award-winning ‘beyond petroleum’ brand took a hit today when a, previously unknown, PR agency delivered 22,000 revamped BP logos and a new sign to the company’s headquarters in St. James’ Square.The ad agency misinterpreted the brief to come up with a new logo that took account of BP’s decision to invest in the Canadian tar sands, and launched the multi-million pound ‘Back to Black’ campaign.

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RBS out of order over Tar Sands

01-04-2010 10:23

Royal Bank of Scotland cashpoints have fallen prey to an April fools prank in protest at RBS's investments in Canadian tar sands.

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Eon switch on to community renewables.

01-04-2010 07:25

Surprising news this morning from german energy giant Eon. Apparently they've reconsidered their whole coal and CCS business plan and are now claiming they'll be helping people set up cuunity owned wind farm schemes...

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Climategate Scientists Cleared

31-03-2010 21:34

Climategate' Investigation Clears UK Scientists Of Most Serious Claims

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/climategate-investigation_n_519644.html
"The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review to exaggerate the threat of global warming – two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues."

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Party at the Pumps - April 10th

31-03-2010 19:16

BP want to start extracting oil from the tar sands, the single most
destructive project on earth - fuelling climate chaos and trampling the
rights of indigenous communities.

We want to stop them.

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Party At The Pumps - April 10th

31-03-2010 19:02

Saturday, 10 April 2010
Meet 1 PM at Oxford Circus

BP want to start extracting oil from the tar sands, the single most
destructive project on earth - fuelling climate chaos and trampling the
rights of indigenous communities. We want to stop them.

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I Bike MCR Festival 2010

31-03-2010 12:56

A month long celebration of the bicycle with workshops, bike rides, film screenings and much more

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Eviction bosses show up at Black Wood as court hearing delayed

29-03-2010 17:00

Hours after the Black Wood Solidarity Camp successfully pushed back its eviction hearing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court this afternoon, members of the National Eviction Team including Martin Leyshon, Head of Resources, visited the site to document its defences and presumably to begin the process of evicting the camp.

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Keeping the Lights On in South Yorkshire: Is Our Future Nuclear Free or Nuclear?

29-03-2010 14:11

Join the debate on Wednesday 28 April 2010 from 7pm to 8.30pm
Find us at Sheffield Hallam University
Furnival Building Room 9130 Arundel Street S1 1WB (view map:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/visit/plancity.html )
register now and submit your questions:

http://new.solar-active.com/debate/register/

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LNG Pipeline protest update... the battle goes on :)

25-03-2010 19:01

A lot of people fought long & hard against the 200 mile LNG pipeline from Milford Haven to Gloucester. Now that is laid in the ground it is hard to see what is worth fighting for.