UK Ecology Newswire Archive
March Against Third Runway
30-05-2003 11:01
Saturday 7 June 2003 - A two mile march in opposition to plans for a third runway at Heathrow which will result in the demolition of up to 10,000 homes, scores of listed buildings, two ancient chuches, three schools, and the enforced relocation of up to 35,000 residents. The protest march will start from Sipson Meadow, Sipson Road, HARLINGTON at 11.30am. It will end in a rally, to be addressed by MPs, in HARMONDSWORTH at 1.30pm. ALL WELCOME TO JOIN IN ESPECIALLY MEDIA.GM Crops Family Tree
29-05-2003 15:52
As 3 corporations, Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, push for the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, Corporate Watch brings you the biotech family tree. The family tree shows the complex tangle of name changes, spin-offs, joint ventures and acquisitions woven by the biotech industry during 10 years of rapid expansion, consolidation and crisis.Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop field
19-05-2003 16:44
Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop fieldUK Government plans to force GM products on citizens
19-05-2003 08:25
Conformation of the government's concept of particapatory democracy. Freedom to dissent quietly then submit. Whatever happened to a die-hard belief in market forces? Supply and Demand anyone?ITS GM WAR! USA to use WTO to force EU to eat GMO!
13-05-2003 18:42
IT'S WAR!!!Today (13 May 2002), the US Trade representative has announced that WTO proceedings will start to force the EU to abandon its moratorium on new GM products. American multinational corporation Monsanto has long been pushing for this move, but the US Govt. wanted to get the invasion of Iraq over before antagonising the world even further.Weapons of Mass Destruction on the road to Coulport, North of Glasgow !
11-05-2003 22:00
Do you want to be a weapons inspector?A British military convoy carrying illegal weapons of mass destruction is due to arrive in Scotland on Monday. The heavily guarded convoy of lorries slipped out of a top-secret atomic bomb factory near Reading on Saturday morning and travelling by road is due to arrive at its destination - a nuclear bomb store at Coulport on Loch Long on the Clyde - on Monday afternoon.
Each of the three lorries in the convoy is thought to be carrying two nuclear warheads which each have a destructive capacity eight times the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
[ report | Faslane Peace Camp | CND | Trident Ploughshares ]
Nuclear transport through Scotland expected on Monday 12th of May
11-05-2003 20:31
A nuclear transport is on the road, heading for Scotland.There will be protests against these weapons of mass destruction.
The nuclear warheads are expected to arrive at Coulport, near Faslane, Helensburgh, on Monday, 12th of May 2003 in the afternoon.
Launch of Independent Science Panel on GMOs
08-05-2003 20:16
Independent Science Panel for a GM-Free Sustainable WorldIn a surprising move, dozens of prominent scientists have joined forces to form an Independent Science Panel (ISP) on GM, to counteract what they see to be a concerted campaign by the government and the scientific establishment in the UK to promote GM under the guise of _sound_ science.
Following the success of the BP AGM protest - London Rising Tide meetings..
06-05-2003 12:40
The recent carnival of protest at the BP AGM saw a flurry of action - London Rising Tide announces its weekly meetings. Next one this Thursday 8 May, 7pm.pics of Esso blockade last Thursday, Edinburgh
08-04-2003 23:48
however, the demonstration was slowly moved by a surrounded police cordon. (article 1)
GM protest trio win their appeal
29-03-2003 08:01
A LEADING environmentalist has won an appeal against a criminal conviction for his part in a GM crop protest. Mark Ballard, 31, the national secretary of the Scottish Green Party and a Scottish Parliament candidate, was fined £125 after a trial in 2001.Demonstration against the use of Depleated Uranium
23-03-2003 21:48
Demonstration against the use of Depleated Uranium in Iraq and Galloway.Bilston Anti Bypass Camp - News Update
21-03-2003 13:57
After a cold & snowy winter Bilston Wood is coming to life again...More from the Edinburgh anti-war critical mass, Sunday 26th
28-01-2003 23:02
More from the Edinburgh anti-war gathering on Sunday, 26th of January.more antiwar demo in edinburgh
28-01-2003 10:24
more about the antiwar demo in Edinburgh, Sunday 26th of January.Critical Mass in Edinburgh
27-01-2003 19:17
Bilston Wood- Anti Road Protest Camp near Edinburgh
25-11-2002 17:16
About eight miles south from Edinburgh near Penicuik is
Bilston Woods. It is an SSSI or the Scottish equivalent and faces having a bypass ripped through it. BIOTECH (famous for cloning sheep) has started this private road construction, a bypass to the A701.
Biotechnology Newswire Nov 25
25-11-2002 16:45
The following stories and events were posted to the www.neRAGE.org on the biotechnology newswire over the last 7 days. You too can post, comment, and search for some of the latest information on biotechnology. Stop by, add your stories, read, add events to our calendar and more!Hunterston to close?
22-11-2002 10:37
Another nuclear submarine crash off the west coast of Scotland
07-11-2002 17:47
Wednesday's Nuclear submarine crash of Skye was only the latest in a series of Naval accidents.
