UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Venezuela: the myth of "Eco-socialism of the XXI Century"
14-04-2010 02:23
Earth First! Summer Gathering
12-04-2010 23:59
Ecological Direct Action without Compromise
Wed 4th Aug - Mon 9th August 2010, Derbyshire
5 days of workshops, skill sharing and planning action, plus low-impact living without leaders.
Mainshill Coal Site sabotaged!
12-04-2010 13:58
BP hit by nationwide protests over plans
10-04-2010 23:15
Activists hailed the day as a major success, stating that the protests would send a strong message to BP and its investors. Sheila Laughlin of the UK Tar Sands Network said:Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
BP hit by tar sands protests in London, Brighton, Oxford and Cambridge
10-04-2010 20:52
The impacts of coal from Colombia to Scotland - 2 events coming up
10-04-2010 17:00
Scotland imports 75% of the coal burned in its coal-fired power stations, mostly from Colombia, Russia and South Africa. At Hunterston, the UK’s largest coal port on Scotland’s West Coast, huge ships transport coal from Colombia’s open cast mines to the Clydeport facility. If Ayrshire Power and Peel get their way, soon a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston will be fed on this coal too. Making the links between communities affected by coal in Scotland and Colombia, these two events will feature a speaker involved in solidarity work with communities in Colombia driven off their land to make way for the mines.BP faces day of anti-tar sands action tomorrow!
09-04-2010 18:42
Saturday 10th April is an international day of action against BP and tar sands extraction. See below for details of the actions publicly announced so far - come and join in!Communities in Resistance – Opposing New Coal Together
09-04-2010 15:12
Despite the Scottish government’s ambitious Climate Change Bill, the coal industry in Scotland grows day by day as companies profit while the communities who are directly affected by this are ignored.
We believe in the power of community and that people can combine forces and work together to resist the many negative aspects of coal; from the destruction of local wildlife habitats and community health to the global effects of climate change.
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BP shut down in Plymouth over Tar Sands oil
09-04-2010 14:44
On Thursday 8 April, Plymouth Rising Tide and Kernow Anarchist Network blockaded the BP garage in Ridgeway, Plymouth, to highlight the environmental destruction caused by the Tar Sands project. The garage was closed for an hour and two activists who were locked onto petrol pumps were arrested.Struggle stepped up as another whaling ship is sabotaged in Norway
08-04-2010 20:40
"Norway announced an increased quota of minke whales so we decided to increase our quota of sunken whalers" - AGENDA 21
Another whaling vessel was sabotaged a few days ago, on April 2nd, nearly a year since the last attempted sinking of the Skarbakk, another Norwegian whaling vessel. The attack was claimed by Agenda 21, a group responsible for last years sabotage and a string of other actions against Norway's whaling industry. Using the name of a 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment, the group is a spin off from the more known Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and promised Norway that if they did not comply with international conservation law, they would sink their whaling ships.
It wasn't an empty threat, with Captain Paul Watson supervising the sinking of two ships; the Nybraena in 1992 and the Senet in 1994. The anonymous and covert goup Agenda 21 then took over with the scuttling of the Elin-Toril in 1996. Claimed on the website of animal rights magazine Bite Back, the activists explain: "Entry was made through the wheelhouse. The engine room was accessed by removing the locked door from its frame using axe and crowbar. Two sea valves were opened fully submerging the engine and electrical systems."
Related Features: Schnews: Ships in the Fight | Norwegian Whaling Ship Scuttled | The Whale Wars - Sea Shepherd Returns From Antarctica | Japan issues arrest warrant for Nottingham activist | Arrests As International Whaling Commission Fails To Protect Whales | Nottingham Activist Returns From Whale Saving Mission In Antartica | Sea Shepherd activists injured as Japanese military open fire | Activists Held Hostage By Japanese Whalers In Southern Ocean | Whalers use Public Relations to twist the truth
Links: United Nations Agenda 21 | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | Ocean Defence topic page
20 Mainshill Wood eviction cases in court today
08-04-2010 15:13
Update of animal/earth liberation prisoners - Mexico
07-04-2010 21:26
From http://www.directaction.info/prisoners.htmCamp Against Nuclear New Build - 23-26 April, Sizewell, Suffolk
06-04-2010 15:44
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net
http://chernobyl-day.org/?lang=en
It's time to step up the campaign against nuclear new build. If we want to stop the next generation of nuclear power stations, now is the time to act. Come and join us for a weekend of networking, protest and info and skill sharing!
Call out for 48 hours of subvertising on the aviation industry
05-04-2010 17:16
Fossil Fools Weekend roundup
05-04-2010 16:15
Help us prevent Climate Crisis in Alberta Canada - Take action to keep BP out of
05-04-2010 11:53
THE WORLD IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF CLIMATE CRISIS. But attempts to avert it are being threatened by a massive industry in the Canadian wilderness.Rising Tide disrupt Shell in Bristol
02-04-2010 12:13
Black Wood protest camp disappears over night to fight another mine, another day
02-04-2010 09:24
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BP ad campaign hoax kicks off the Fortnight of Shame
01-04-2010 14:38
Eviction bosses show up at Black Wood as court hearing delayed
29-03-2010 17:00