UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Australia Floods - Climate?

24-01-2011 03:08

Terrible floods in Queenland, Australia - with record rapid rainfall. Another extreme precipitation event, like caused by warming oceans, from climate change. Says Professor Matthew England from the Climate Change Research Centre, at The University of New South Wales, in Sydney. 13 min interview with Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock.

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The Food Bubble - Lester Brown

24-01-2011 01:25

You have seen food prices going up at the local grocery store. That could be just the beginning. According to Lester Brown, a leading expert in both the environment and world agriculture, those bulging supermarket shelves are part of a "food bubble", which could crash. Radio Ecoshock interview. 24 min

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Shell given permission to complete Gas pipeline in Mayo

20-01-2011 11:37

This morning we heard that An Bord Pleanála (the Irish planning board) has granted Shell oil permission to finish their raw gas pipeline.

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Exposure of police spy in UK sheds light on covert operations

19-01-2011 10:57

Last week, a trial of six environmental campaigners at Nottingham Crown Court in England collapsed. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said they could not continue, as “new evidence” had come to light undermining their case.

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Ratcliffe trial last two sentences

18-01-2011 14:25

Community service orders

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Rising Tide 7 - Australia

17-01-2011 20:06

Background - Seven Australian Rising Tide activists are being pursued by Port Waratah Coal Services, which is made up of Rio Tinto and Xstrata, for US$525,000 in "victim's compensation" as a result of a non-violent blockade of the world's largest coal port on September 26 last year. For full details visit -

http://risingtide7.wordpress.com/

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How close are you to a potential opencast site?

17-01-2011 11:09

A by product of the work done to suggest that 553m metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere is the revelation that most of this coal lies so close to where people live. read more here.

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Climate Change and the 500m Buffer Zone Bill

17-01-2011 10:56

This press release accompanies the publication of MOPG's 5th Briefing Note in support of the 500m Buffer Zone Bill and explains why those concerned about Climate Change should support the Bill.

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Against Civilization

16-01-2011 19:42

In his new film, former Democracy Now! videographer Franklin Lopez explains his anarchist call to end civilization by any means. Kick it over, deep-Green Derrick Jensen style. Then Alex mulls Net fear mongering of a military response - to riots by the new poor, in America or the UK.

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Mark Stone gives his first interview to the Mail on Sunday

15-01-2011 23:05

Mark Stone aka Mark Kennedy gives his first interview to the Mail on Sunday.

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Kennedy/Stone talks to Mail on Sunday

15-01-2011 22:42

Kennedy/Stone interviewed by the Mail on Sunday

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Keep Europe Out of the Tar Sands

14-01-2011 20:20

Today several activists, including some from Oxford, visited the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills with a simple message - Keep Europe Out of the Tar Sands.

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Global Open DID work for E.ON

14-01-2011 10:59

Global Open Ltd, which has links with exposed undercover copper Mark Kennedy, was used by E.ON to moniotor protest groups.

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Undercover and over-the-top: The collapse of the Ratcliffe trial

13-01-2011 17:33

Sent from New Internationalist magazine (newint.org): NI contributor Danny Chivers was one of six defendants whose charges were dropped in Nottingham Crown Court this week, following revelations about an undercover police officer who had infiltrated the UK’s environmental protest movement. Here, Danny explains the extraordinary events that led to the collapse of his trial, and what they tell us about the policing of protest in Britain today.

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PC Mark Kennedy sold services to E-ON via Global Open

12-01-2011 11:53

Story pulled from mainstream media in damage limitation exercise

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Mark Kennedy, Global Open Ltd and E.ON

12-01-2011 11:35

There is now conclusive proof that Mark Kennedy had become involved with Global Open Ltd BEFORE he resigned from the police.

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Zero Carbon Britain 2030

12-01-2011 10:59

We are delighted to be welcoming speakers from the Centre for Alternative Technology to talk about CAT’s groundbreaking ZeroCarbonBritain2030 report, in which a team of distinguished academics and researchers show how Britain could eliminate emissions from fossil fuels within 20 years and break our dependence on imported energy.

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Right a Wrong in British Planning Law

11-01-2011 16:44

This MOPG's latest Press Release emphasises a different aspect of the argument as to why Communities in England should benefit from a 500m Buffer Zone law. It shows how many areas of England could be prone to opencast mining because local communities, unlike those in Scotland and Wales do not benefit from having a 500m Buffer Zone policy in operation.

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I can't forgive Mark Kennedy's betrayal of activists

11-01-2011 14:37

Along with many others, I was sickened when I discovered that the man I knew as a fellow activist, Mark Kennedy, was in fact an undercover police officer who had been spying on us since 2003. Yet my feelings were nothing compared with those who were close to him. The betrayal and loss they are feeling is a real grief – the equivalent of someone you love dying. I went through this myself a few years ago when one of my best friends, Martin Hogbin, was exposed as a BAE spy. I denied the facts for a long time simply because the truth was too difficult. I still miss my friend, miss the good times, miss him seeing my son grow up; I don't think this feeling will ever go away.

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Britain and the Long Emergency

11-01-2011 13:00

An excellent summay of the unfolding situation in the UK.

http://orwellianuk.blogspot.com/2011/01/britain-and-long-emergency.html