UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Protest March against Oil Licenses off Welsh Coast

11-02-2007 19:19

Say No to Oil in Cardigan Bay

March on Worthing Police Station on Saturday!

11-02-2007 13:28

PROTESTERS are set to march on Worthing Police Station, West Sussex, on Saturday February 17 - and you're invited to join them.

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30 shut down Manchester petrol station

10-02-2007 12:18

Yesterday, 30 climate activists shut down an ESSO petrol station on Upper Brook Street in Manchester for 2 hours. The action aimed to highlight the link between the oil industry and global warming.

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Japanese Claims of Injuries are Bogus says Sea Shepherd

10-02-2007 02:22

Captain Paul Watson, from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has refuted Japanese claims that two whalers were injured during an engagement between the Sea Shepherd vessel 'Robert Hunter' and the 'Nisshin Maru' on Friday. Sea Shepherd activists threw 6 one litre bottles of foul smelling but non-toxic butyric acid to the flensing deck of the 'Nisshin Maru' Whaling Factory Ship.

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Bush Admin being sued over suppression of Global Warming Science

09-02-2007 20:43

Sen. Kerry and Rep. Inslee Join Conservation Groups in Global Warming Lawsuit Against Bush Administration

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Dutch government to compensate for rain forest destruction

09-02-2007 19:51

The Netherlands government has recognised that it was wrong to subsidise as “green energy” palm oil produced at the cost of rain forests, reports a German rain forest advocacy group. “It has recognised that often palm oil production often involves catastrophic destruction of rain forest and promised to learn from this,” writes Rettet den Regenwald e. V.

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Npower uses Thugs to Evict Radley Lakes Environmental Activists

09-02-2007 18:38

The lives of environmental activists were put in danger when Bailiffs from Shercurity Ltd smashed their way into the occupied Npower property at Radley Lakes with reckless disregard for health and safety.

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Avian influenza

09-02-2007 16:36

Slowly, slowly the true story is emerging.

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Recycling in the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor goes from bad to worse

09-02-2007 16:21

The Rotten Borough of Rushmoor is one of the worst performing councils in the country on recycling. And it goes from bad to worse. Council officials have now been forced to admit they have failed to meet their own targets on green waste recycling.

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Tory MEP backs incinerators over EU wide recycling scheme.

09-02-2007 14:42

Friends of the Earth HQ Press Release Feb 9.

Tory MEP, Caroline Jackson is proposing more incineration of waste rather than more recycling as the answer to the ever growing refuse mountain.
EU TO VOTE TUESDAY 13th FEBRUARY.

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Sea Shepherd crew missing in Antarctic waters

09-02-2007 04:00

Sea Shepherd found and engaged the Japanese whaling fleet approx. 0530 Friday.
A rigid-hulled inflatable boat, with two crew, has gone missing during the direct action.

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photos of Manchester carbon footprint stencils

07-02-2007 22:48

Last Thursday, to coincide with the IPCC report, a group of Manchester climate activists decorated the pavements outside flight centres, petrol stations, supermarkets and a humvee garage with carbon footprints.

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Truth is being witheld from Americans on global warming

07-02-2007 19:52

Just read the titles, if nothing else, of these
articles from the past few months. Very few
were printed in the US, and only a few were
posted anywhere other than foriegn sites and
the IMC Network.

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shell-to-sea

07-02-2007 16:34

mr mark garavin "shelltosea" is to run for Seanad Éireann .

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Brecon Resistance Camp - Wish List

06-02-2007 20:28

The tree camp in the Brecon Beacons is still going strong. The mood is good and everyone is happy ( well all except National Grid that is !!! ).

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CAMP BLING Photo Set 1

06-02-2007 17:47

More info/news:

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Seedy Sunday Brighton 2007

06-02-2007 15:55

The sixth Seedy Sunday Brighton was held at The Old Market in Hove on Sunday 4 February 2007.

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RADLEY LAKES BEING EVICTED

06-02-2007 11:31

IF YOU CAN GET DOWN THERE TODAY

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Hundreds of nuclear opponents demonstrate in Germany

05-02-2007 07:16

More than 400 nuclear opponents have demonstrated in the west German city of Münster against a nearby nuclear waste dump at Ahaus and secret transports of depleted uranium from a nearby enrichment plant at Gronau.

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Shell Wildlife photo exhibition gets painted

05-02-2007 02:35

A short video of the Shell Oil Wildlife Photograph Exhibition at the London Natural History Museum getting polluted with sticky black stuff.