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Drax AGM targeted over biomass conversion plans

25-04-2013 12:32

Drax AGM protest
50 people took part yesterday in a demonstration and rally outside the annual general meeting of Drax Plc, at the Grocers’ Hall in London, organised by Biofuelwatch and supported by 16 other groups. The protest opposed Drax power station’s plans to convert half of its generating capacity to biomass, and highlighted the impacts that this will have in terms of increased deforestation, land-grabbing and carbon emissions.

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Scottish Coal ask courts to allow them to walk away from opencast sites

25-04-2013 09:58

Coal Action Scotland media release: for immediate use 24th April 2013
Media contact: Oliver Munnion at  media@coalactionscotland.org.uk or on 07917693337

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Philippine climate activists expose risks of dirty coal.

24-04-2013 12:06

300-strong climate activists and anti-coal advocates stormed the Department of Energy to voice out their opposition to coal mines and coal-fired power plants promoted by the government and to launch the group’s Campaign Against Dirty Energy and for People’s Access to Safe, Renewable and Democratic Energy Alternatives.

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Call out for action - UK and Germany calls for Brazil to halt Belo Monte dam

23-04-2013 21:20

Action for the Amazon is planning to hold a small fluffy demo out side the Brzillian embassy on Friday the 26th April. Please come and show your support for the Achaur tribe who's land will be flooded, and call the Brazillian government to halt the dam buiding.
We plan to take potted plants to the embassy to offer them somthing to re-plant with.

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Scottish Coal's Collapse : The Untold Story

23-04-2013 17:03

On Friday 20/4/13, Scotland's largest producer of surface mined coal, Scottish Coal went into liquidation. LAON's press release suggests that reasons other than those which have dominated news items about this event, lie behind this collapse. This press release aims at putting the record strait. In so doing, it raises questions as to whether large scale opencast mining operations, under present circumstanace will ever be profitable in Scotland again.

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Burying the Future: Pipelines, Arctic Melt, UK Weather

21-04-2013 19:43

Canadian scientist Paul Beckwith explains how the Arctic warming emergency is changing your weather. First, story of anti-pipeline media warrior, John Bolenbaugh. The leaks, scandals and deaths behind Tar Sands pipelines.

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Shell to Sea campaigner to speak in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester

19-04-2013 13:02

Local resident and Shell to Sea campaigner Terence Conway will be speaking in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester to give an update on campaign against Shell in Ireland & promote the Rossport Solidarity Camp week of action happening there in June.

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Coping with Climate Despair: Rosemary Randall

15-04-2013 06:49

The climate has changed, we all know that. How can we face the unbearable weight of knowing we did it, forever in human terms. You are about to hear one of the best leaders in how to cope without falling into despair. From the UK it's psychotherapist Rosemary Randall in a Radio Ecoshock interview. 29 minutes.

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Serial Climate Hacker Raided

12-04-2013 00:09

Serial climate hacker Russ George's office raided. Nick Saul takes food banks to a whole new level - feeding citizens during tough times. UC Berkeley political scientist Dr. Martha Campbell - how economists & women's advocates helped enable the next population explosion. Radio Ecoshock 130410 1 hour.

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Earth First Summer Gathering: 7th-11th August 2013

06-04-2013 10:00

This year's the Summer Gathering will be in the Hastings area near the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road campaign. It will run from the evening of Wednesday 7th August and finish on Sunday 11th August.

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Planning and Opencast Coal: the Bad and the Good News

03-04-2013 13:49

LAON's latest Press Release provides an update on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill Clause 24 plus progress on the Halton Lea Gate Judicial Review. In addition news that a Health Impact Assessment process is to be used to assess the health aspects of the Deanfield Surface Mine Application near Sharston, Wakefield.

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Northern Vegan Festival

02-04-2013 17:25

The Northern Vegan Festival, which is the biggest ever vegan event in the North, is on Saturday April 13, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Sachas Hotel, 12, Tib St., Manchester city centre, M4 1SH. There is aftershow from 6 p.m. until late at the Thirsty Scholar vegan/vegetarian pub, 50, New Wakefield St., Manchester city centre, M1 5NP. More info about the Festival on the website and Facebook.

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LAON's Review of English Opencast Site Applications for March 2013

02-04-2013 14:14

This review highlights recent developments affecting new opencast site applications in England. it includes news that the first Health Impact Assessment for a new opencast site in England for 4 years is underway in Wakefield for the Deanfield Site. The Judicial Appeal over the Halton Lea Gate decision makes progress and coal extraction by surface methods could return to Walsall as part of the process of reclaiming and remediating the Phoenix 10 / IMI Coppper Works site.

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Summer action camp against Shell

31-03-2013 21:00

Come over and stop Shell!
Come to Mayo on the 21st of June for a week of action against Shell.
Whether you've been to Rossport before or this is your first time, this is the week to come.
Check website for updates & more information.

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Bexhill Bypass; Round Two

30-03-2013 23:22

Operation Disclosure
The latest on the campaign to stop the first and worst of Osborne's roads

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Road Protest Info Night. Monday 1st April 7.30pm. Pogo Cafe, Hackney, London

29-03-2013 19:14

Free Screening of Wars of the British Tree People. Followed by Discussion with Combe Haven Defenders. Monday 1st April. 7.30pm

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Summer action camp against Shell

28-03-2013 13:17

Smash Shell!
Come to Mayo on the 21st of June for a week of action against Shell.
Whether you've been to Rossport before or this is your first time, this is the week to come.
Check website for updates & more information.

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Northern Vegan Festival

27-03-2013 09:32

The Northern Vegan Festival, which is the biggest ever vegan event in the North, is on Saturday April 13, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Sachas Hotel, 12, Tib St., Manchester city centre, M4 1SH. There is aftershow from 6 p.m. until late at the Thirsty Scholar vegan/vegetarian pub, 50, New Wakefield St., Manchester city centre, M1 5NP. More info about the Festival on the website and Facebook.

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Local residents campaign against UK Coal at Great Oak

26-03-2013 17:17

UK Coal (Coalfield Resources) want to open cast Great oak – aka Diglake Colliery. This site is where the January 1895 Flooding Disaster killed 77 men and boys and is close to the villages of Audley, Bignall End, Red Street and Crackley.

Some 72 bodies are still in the old workings over which UK Coal want to open cast mine.

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School for Eco-Warriors Will Teach Teenagers How to Stop Global Warming

25-03-2013 21:46

The eco-warriors in Enfield who recently survived a terrible ordeal at the hands of the corrupt and crooked Enfield council which could have killed them, are planning to open the School for Eco-Warriors to teach young people and everyone else as well, about how to engage in direct action to stop global warming before it drives humanity to extinction this century.