UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

26.07.08 Climate Camp press conference

26-07-2008 21:55

Images from the climate camp press conference, Saturday 26th July 2008.
The climate camp will move this weekend from its location at Heathrow Airport to a new location - Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent. This conference aimed to examine the ongoing situation at Heathrow and bring different groups such as Camp for Climate Action, local campaign groups HACAN and NoTRAG), and Greenpeace to discuss a broad strategy against expansion.

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Sumac Climate Action Garden Party: The Pictures 2

26-07-2008 10:48

Sunday 20th July 2008, folks at the Sumac held a Garden Party to raise funds for Eastside Climate Action and to raise the profile of Nottingham's contribution to the Camp for Climate Action.

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Sumac Climate Action Garden Party: The Pictures 1

26-07-2008 10:45

Sunday 20th July 2008, folks at the Sumac held a Garden Party to raise funds for Eastside Climate Action and to raise the profile of Nottingham's contribution to the Camp for Climate Action.

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Sumac Garden Party

26-07-2008 08:52

To raise funds for, and awareness about, the Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth, Kent, Eastside Climate Action organised a garden party at the Sumac Centre.

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Police try and enter Bodge House

25-07-2008 20:28

Earlier today (25 July) several police turned up to look at a hole in the field, in actual fact it is a tunnel, but hey!

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Sizewell Blockaded yet again

25-07-2008 19:49

6am and nine anti nuclear power activists head to sizewell for a day on the beach, well almost the beach, they actually stop at the entrance of Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations and lock themselves together with a number of things and seal the entrance for health and safety reasons.
Sizewell looks to be the next place for a new nuclear power station, with two reactors larger than the existing sizewell ‘B’ reactor.
After two previous blockades in the last few months, security had been stepped up and they had put a land rover and two security guards at the gate, but must have decided that this was no longer needed as when we arrived they were not there and yet again we were not spotted.

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The 300-350 Show: Rolling Back Coal

24-07-2008 16:21

We continue our look at the campaigns against coal. This week we explore why the Department for Businesses compromise of "carbon capture ready" just isn't good enough. We also look at the impressive rollback of new coal developments in the US. Will there be a moratorium on unabated coal in the US by the end of the year?

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Community halts illegal work on Special Area of Conservation, Ireland- pls help!

24-07-2008 12:52

The fight goes on- be part of it.
This is an urgent call for support to protect the community and environment of Rossport in Mayo, Ireland. Shell is now attempting to construct the first 200m metres of the onshore section of the pipeline without any planning permission. 13 residents were arrested on Tuesday and this morning a 10ft fence was erected and guarded by40 police & 70 security.
Help is urgently needed. Come if u can. Protest at Irish Embassy, Shell garages etc.

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The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle Confirmed

23-07-2008 21:33

We already knew this but... media regulators today confirmed that the controversial Great Global Warming Swindle 'documentary' commissioned by Channel 4 film was a pile of misrepresentation and misleading crap. The long-awaited judgement from Ofcom said that Channel 4 had not fulfilled it's responsibilities and obligations in airing the documentary which claimed that global warming is not a result of human activities.

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Fresh and Wild : The "ethical" organic store is selling Nestle products.

23-07-2008 17:58

Fresh and Wild in Camden and Soho are selling Nestle products. Nestle are unethical and not the type of manufacturer whose products expect to find in Fresh and Wild etc.

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Welcome to Hoo St Werburgh near Kingsnorth power station.

23-07-2008 16:24

Hello Happy Campers, welcome to our village. Hoo has a very fine pub, a Co-op store and an ironmongers, plus several other useful shops.

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Little Peace Boat on the way to Climate Camp, arrives in Brighton Marina

23-07-2008 10:47

Update on veteran peace campaigner,
Peter Le Mare, in his Little Peace Boat,
"Be Disarming"
...on the way to The Climate Camp and then to Westminster, London for this 50th anniversary year of CND peace symbol on Hiroshima Day, August 6,
....to draw attention to the linked problems of Catastrophic Climate Change and World Peace.

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Plane Stupid Activist Glued To PM Inside Downing Street

22-07-2008 19:39

A campaigner from the climate action group, Plane Stupid, is currently super-glued to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the State Dining Room of 10 Downing Street.

Dan Glass, a 24 year old MSc student based in Scotland, gained access to the PM’s official residence at 5pm this evening. He greeted Mr Brown and asked the Prime Minister why he and his ministers have refused to meet West London residents opposed to the construction of a third runway at Heathrow. He simultaneously put his super-glue covered hand onto Brown’s polyester suit. When Brown went to turn away he found he had been super-glued by his clothing to Plane Stupid, and had no option but to listen to Dan.

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Pictures from the Bodge House opencast - 13/07/08

22-07-2008 17:02

Over a week ago now I visited the planned opencast coal mine and took some photos of recent work. Obviously, things will have changed in the last week, but I hope this post is usefull to some.

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Free Vegan Food Fair in Lichfield - report & film

22-07-2008 04:58

You may recall that way back in April, Midlands Vegan Campaigns held our second free food fair in Lichfield. It was a truly fantastic event, a roaring success which has gone totally unreported, until now! Why`s it taken so long? Well, various reasons which i won`t bore you with here - but better late than never!! :)

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Saving Iceland Blockades Century Aluminum Smelter and Elkem Steel Factory

21-07-2008 23:18

Saving Iceland, July 21st 2008 Press Release
GRUNDARTANGI – Today 20 activists from Saving Iceland blockaded the single supply road to Century Aluminum’s smelter on Hvalfjordur and Elkem – Icelandic Alloys steel factory. They have chained themselves to each other using arm tubes to form a human blockade as well as using tripod for the first time in Icelandic history.

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Where's the Strategy?

21-07-2008 00:14

The latest issue of Manchester Climate Fortnightly is out now.

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Saving Iceland Stops Work at Century Aluminium Construction Site

19-07-2008 18:57

HELGUVIK (ICELAND) – Early this morning 40 activists from over 10 countries occupied the construction site where Century Aluminum are preparing to build their Helguvík aluminium smelter, and chained themselves to machinery and cranes. The protest is aimed at damage to geothermal areas in southwest Iceland and Century’s environmental and human rights abuses in Jamaica and Africa.

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Bodge House - Eviction Alert!

19-07-2008 17:13

Eviction alert for the Derbyshire open cast coal mine squat.

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Eviction gets go ahead - Bodge House

19-07-2008 14:07

Activists fortify Bodge House against UK Coal open cast mine and the eviction squad

The group of direct activists occupying Lodge House opencast site since 18th June have declared that they are ready to resist eviction.