UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive
Around the London protests - 28/1/08
28-01-2008 23:51
Protests against Musharraf's reception at Downing Street and the DfT Heathrow expansion exhibitionAn interview with Plane Stupid on the nature and future of the influential anti-
28-01-2008 18:04
Plane Stupid is a well-known and very successful anti-aviation campaigning organisation which regularly catches headlines, and promotes direct action targeting the fastest growing cause of climate change: aviation. The group came together in 2005, when a group of activists disrupted an international aviation conference using rape alarms attached to helium balloons during the key note speech. A group has formed in Scotland, which in January breached the security of Edinburgh airport and blockaded a private jet company that fuels the conspicuous consumption of the very rich. The following is an interview conducted via email with Robbie Gillett, one of the founding members of Plane Stupid.Stop Kingsnorth - No New Coal
28-01-2008 18:03
XL airways court case results
28-01-2008 18:03
Anti-deportation activist found guilty, 12 month conditional discharge £300 costs. ‘The judge said I 'went too far' - I feel my actions went just far enough. I believe that everyone should take whatever action is within their abilities in the face of social and environmental injustices like deporting so-called ‘failed’ asylum seekers to a country destabilised by wars over resources. I would happily do what I did again.'London Critical Mass January ride.
26-01-2008 09:34
A subdued start to a good ride, held up by a massive traffic jam in the Strand, but it livened up later with a bike high in Piccadilly Circus and taunts to impatient car horns. Joyful chants of 'More bikes less cars' and 'Whose streets? Our streets'.The Problem With...Hope
24-01-2008 16:38
I need to talk to you about hope. I need to warn you about having it, for merely by having hope you could become nothing more than a bundle of ineffectual good intentions. Hope could, in fact, be the single most dangerous thing to have in the environmental struggle we need to face up to.BP: Climate Policy Will Cause Peak Oil
24-01-2008 15:23
In a unbelievable presentation to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas on 16th January BP's Special Economic Advisor Peter Davies (no other oil company was prepared to address this group) claimed that "there's a distinct possibility that global oil consumption could peak as a result of climate policies" -- in other words NOT because supply problems but because of a reduction in demand! If you believe that governments around the world are going all out to reduce oil demand and switch to renewables then perhaps you might believe this... Of course they are not...The APPGOPO Press Release on this presentation, which links to a MP3 of the event, follows, this presentation is being discussed on the PowerSwitch forum:
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6231
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Mr Tesco avoids a green wash
23-01-2008 17:56
Chief Exec. of Tesco, Terry Leahy, today evaded various campaigners at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery who were anxious to discuss his company's recent £25 mil. investment in Manchester University's "Sustainable Consumption" Institute, yet another Tesco green-wash...............Thousands still displaced from homes flooded last summer
23-01-2008 10:11
Thousands of people in Britain are unable to return to their homes months after they were flooded last summer. Latest estimates suggest over 9,000 families are still living with friends or relatives or in temporary accommodation and that 2,000 of them spent Christmas in caravans.CO 2 'Follows Temperature Rises' in Past Climate Changes
21-01-2008 18:05
This is unequivocally true. The three ice cores of Greenland and the Antarctic have all shown this to be a fact.Full article | 1 addition | 8 comments
Jet-set waltz off while the planet burns
21-01-2008 09:17
Over twenty environmental protesters have this morning breached security at Edinburgh Airport and blockaded the entrance to the private jet company, Greer Aviation.Bangkok Gastech 2008 10-13March 2008 - Join the Global warming party!!
20-01-2008 11:07
PTT corporation of Thailand and other global bedfellows with the Burmese Military junta will be greasing palms at Bangkok Gastech 2008. Joined by evil corporations from around the world it could be the perfect opportunity to infiltrate, disrupt and do some good all at the same time.New documentary on the the harmful impact of the carbon market
20-01-2008 09:23
Trees 'spiked' in Oxford
19-01-2008 16:18
The campaign against the felling of 42 mature London Planes clearly isn't over...Target E-On
19-01-2008 11:51
Protest against E-on, the company behind the Kingsnorth coal fired power station3pm, outside E-On London offices, 100 Pall Mall, nr Trafalgar Square. Protest organised by Revolution, LSE student Greens, supported by Campaign Against Climate Change and Rising. E-on have recently got planning permission from Medway council for a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent and the application is now sitting on Gordon Brown's desk awaiting his approval. The Kingsnorth plant threatens to be the first in a new wave of coal-fired power stations – madness in the light of the escalating climate crisis.
London Foie Gras Demo
17-01-2008 23:17
Meet at London's Liverpool Street Station - Bishopsgate exit {Starbucks kiosk} @ 4.45pm - leave at 5pm. New people welcome!! Just come up and say hello.Super Heroes!
17-01-2008 20:55
www.stop-wylfa.org launched within days of Brown’s nuclear announcement
17-01-2008 18:25
Within days of last week's announcement by Gordon Brown in favour of building new nuclear power stations, P.A.W.B (People Against Wylfa-B). have launched a website http://stop-wylfa.org/ as part of the campaign to prevent a second nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, north Wales.
Ratcliffe Power Station Court Case : Nottingham Magistrates [day 3]
17-01-2008 17:03
Now starting day 3 of the trial of the 11 defendants, accused of aggravated trespass at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. Prosecution and defence case having been heard, today was about final statements and the summaries of evidence given over the last couple of days.Massive anti Heathrow dissent in (wait for it) Chiswick
16-01-2008 20:58
A couple of local residents organised an anti Heathrow expansion meeting in Chiswick last night.