UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Protestors disrupt Parliamentary Committee into 'Future of BAA; 29.11.07

30-11-2007 15:26

Climate activists opposed to plans for a third runway at Heathrow this afternoon disrupted a Parliamentary inquiry going on inside the House of Commons.
Protestors from climate action group, Plane Stupid, disrupted the proceedings of the Transport Select Committee who were hearing evidence from BAA boss, Steven Nelson and Aviation Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick.

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The Night Shift : A Parable Of Electricity

30-11-2007 13:07

Shutting down coal-fired power stations could be as simple as doing your washing overnight. Making a 90% cut in energy consumption could be just as easy.

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Climate Change March - Coaches from South Wales

29-11-2007 15:39

CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH - Transport from South Wales
March on the US Embassy
SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER:
Global Day of Climate Change Protest
Assemble 12 pm, Millbank, Central London

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M1 Widening in Notts Looms

28-11-2007 23:18

Preparatory work is now underway in Nottinghamshire for the widening of the M1 motorway. The government and the Highways Agency (HA) are planning to widen the M1 along most of its length between Luton and Leeds, with potentially huge climate change impacts.

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Campaign Against Climate Change Public Meeting Tuesday Dec 4th

28-11-2007 17:48

Public Meeting
"How can we win the race against climate catastrophe?"

Tues December 4th 2007
7.30pm Quakers Meeting House,
St Giles, Oxford

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Plane Stupid Disrupt Parliamentary Committee In Commons

28-11-2007 16:17

3.15pm - Climate activists opposed to plans for a third runway at Heathrow this afternoon disrupted a Parliamentary inquiry going on inside the House of Commons. Protestors from climate action group, Plane Stupid, disrupted the proceedings of the Transport Select Committee who were hearing evidence from BAA boss, Steven Nelson and Aviation Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick.

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Free Manchester and the Buy Nothing Balloons

28-11-2007 12:57

Balloon banners, free stuff and alarm bells at the Trafford Centre...

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Further photos : London Biofuel Investment seminar runs scared of protestors

27-11-2007 22:20

A peaceful banner protest organised by Biofuelwatch outside the Climate Investment World Conference at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel in London today, 27th November led to the organisers moving the venue of the Biofuel Investment seminar session.

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London Biofuel Investment seminar runs scared of protestors

27-11-2007 22:16

A peaceful banner protest organised by Biofuelwatch outside the Climate Investment World Conference at the Victoria Park Plaza Hotel in London today, 27th November led to the organisers moving the venue of the Biofuel Investment seminar session.

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Student Climate Project Launch this weekend

27-11-2007 17:43

This weekend (the 30th November to the 2nd December) sees the launch of The Student Climate Project, whose aim is to bring together existing student activists from across the UK to find ways to build a mass student anti-climate change movement.

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Lobby your MP and Government to represent you!

27-11-2007 15:17

PowerToThePeople - an independent democratic accountability website designed to empower you to hold those in power to account - has updated its 'Lobby your MP and Government to represent you' section. It'll take you just a few minutes to support a number of campaigns.

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The 4th East Midlands Vegan Festival, 8th December 2007

27-11-2007 09:24

The 2007 event returns to the Council House on Nottingham's Old Market Square where, in 2005, we welcomed over 2000 visitors from across the region! The doors open at 11am, but we welcome help setting up from 9am (and in advance).

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Dec 8th Climate March - Autonomous Bloc

25-11-2007 19:36

Greetings!

As you may be aware, there's a global day of climate action on the 8th dec, including a national march in london. Given the expected size of the march, it seems fair to have a nice autonomous bloc.

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The Indians of the Concrete Jungle sabotage 1'000 SUV's in Sweden

24-11-2007 17:54

A new group calling itself The Indians of the Concrete Jungle has claimed credit for vandalizing more than one-thousand SUVs in order to draw attention to climate change and discourage motorists from driving vehicles that create such a high impact on the environment

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Buy Nothing Day Rat Race

24-11-2007 16:33

To mark Buy Nothing Day, 12 people from Norwich Rising Tide held a Rat Race in the city centre.

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Heathrow Expansion - Plane Stupid consultation report

23-11-2007 16:14

At a packed meeting yesterday afternoon the combined forces of the anti-Heathrow expansion movement heard something they'd always suspected. The consultation, due out today, will be a sham. The Government has made its mind up; like it or not, Heathow expansion is going ahead.

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Leave the Oil in the Soil

22-11-2007 20:05

Leave the Oil in the Soil: Yasuni, ITT, the Huaorani people and the Amazon.

There is a potentially radical process unfolding - keep the oil in the soil:

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Screw Wildlife - Let's Play Golf!

22-11-2007 15:39

I have just got off the phone after speaking to Neil Hobday, the Project Director for the proposed Trump Golf links golf resort development in eastern Scotland. I would like to say that he seemed a reasonable man, but that would be untrue because despite trying to interest him in the views of the rest of life on the irrepairable damage that will be caused to 1400 acres of pristine sand dune habitat, he was clearly stuck in the lie that the economy was far more important than our life support system.

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London Rising Tide invade the Aviation Emissions Trading Summit 2007.

22-11-2007 11:27

London Rising Tide today gave an award to aviation delegates who were discussing how to make the most of the ETS.

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film of last week's cycle protest at eurostar launch

21-11-2007 17:12

60 cyclists (definitely more than the 30 originally reported - check the film) in protest at the launch of eurostar - st pancras last week. protest about poor parking facilities, poor local cycle routes and planning, and poor arrangements for cycle carriage on eurostar.