UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Climate Camp Cymru eviction shows need for action

14-08-2010 23:30

Climate Camp Cymru near Selar and Nant-Helen opencast coal mines, Glyn-Neath in South Wales was brought to a premature end on Saturday afternoon with a massive police incursion to evict the camp. The camp was expected to last until Tuesday 17th August.

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Climate Camp Cymru - how to get here

14-08-2010 08:29

The night went well and there's plenty to be getting on with today. Structures continue to rise and people are arriving by the hour, why not come down and pitch in? We're surrounded by coal fields and proposed mine expansions, so after a cup of tea, stop by the action support tent for more details.
Detailed travel information follows...

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Drill huggers stop Shell's drilling work

13-08-2010 18:33

Yesterday people from the local community of Pullathomas and Rossport and Solidarity campers lead by the rousing sound of a visiting bagpiper and drummer, returned to one of Shell's drilling rigs, gaining access at low tide across the exposed sand bars of Sruwaddacon bay. On arriving at the rig a number of people surrounded the drill casing and danced around it before forming a tight huddle to prevent any further work occurring. Meanwhile others held a large banner and occupied the area while children played in the sand.

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What Goes Up...

12-08-2010 09:14

As the mainstream media spins it's wheels on the issue of the economy, few even consider the possibility that it's the entire economic system itself that is the problem.

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NEW non commerical Permaculture/Forest Gardening/Nut Growing forum on Riseup!!!

12-08-2010 08:46

Check this out. I've bunged up most of my accumulated and extensive 'knoledge' so far. Please network. Its purely non commerical folks!

Bles

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Climate Camp Cymru meetup point announced

11-08-2010 21:51

Climate Camp Cymru, 13 - 17 August
Opencast is trashing the south Wales landscape - it's time to take action...

From midday on Friday 13th August you are invited to a convergence space in central Cardiff. The location of this space is Cardiff Quaker Meeting House, 43 Charles Street, Cardiff.

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Community walk brings Shell drilling work to a standstill in Sruwaddacon Estuary

11-08-2010 15:19

Yesterday morning forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill. The community walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey.

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Russia - in defence of Khimki forest and arrested antifascists - solidarity need

09-08-2010 14:42

At this moment, Russia's antifascist, anarchist and environmentalist movements
are in great need of international solidarity.

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Successful Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered event addressed by Lord Mayor

06-08-2010 15:19

Today Merseyside CND held its annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered event, attended by Liverpool's Lord Mayor Cllr Hazel Williams, the attendance was close to 60 people counted on the day.

Additionally Green Blade sung inspiring songs for peace and against war.

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Shell drilling stopped for 5 hours – as Beat the Boreholes continues

05-08-2010 14:29

Yesterday morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms.

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News Desk: 4 Retailers use 5 billion plastic bags

05-08-2010 13:05

Common Action spokesperson Lindsay Keenan commented: “The four retailers who are responsible for the highest annual use of plastic bags, an estimated 5 billion plastic bags per year between them, are trying to hide the facts of this environmental abuse from the public”.

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Protesters say 1m Truck Jounney's across SAC Site puts Site at rsk

04-08-2010 16:05

A new Breifing nNte from the Minorca Opencast Protest Group explains why they argue that planning permission for a new opencast mine on the Minorca Site should be refused because of the risk to The River Mease Special Area of Conservation

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Unwelcome Guests #510 - The Race Towards Global Consciousness

02-08-2010 20:33

Hitting Rock Bottom & Realising The Reunion

This week's show includes three speakers' exciting vision of a single, global, interconnected human family. We start with Jeremy Rifkin's uplifting conclusion of last week's Empathic Civilization talk, before an interview with Charles Eisenstein and concluding with a similarly uplifting call to change the human narrative by David Korten.

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Protest raft sails down River Severn

02-08-2010 13:49

Activists sailed a raft down the River Seven and Past E.ONs Buildwas B power station and then under Telfords famous Iron Bridge to raise awareness of the camp at Huntington Lane

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Gaia scientist under attack

30-07-2010 17:12

THE SCIENTIST behind the Gaia concept came under attack at a meeting in Sussex on Thursday July 29.

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Ffos y Fran coal train blockade solidarity demo

30-07-2010 13:27

Heading to Climate Camp Cymru on August 13th? 13 people who blockaded the railway at Ffos y Fran opencast mine in April are being sentenced at Merthyr Crown Court that day at 2pm. Why not drop by for a solidarity demo.

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Earth First! gathering, 4-9 August, programme & location announced

28-07-2010 11:29

The full details of the Earth First! summer gathering is up on the website, how to get there, progamme and all.

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Campaign launched to close down German dolphinarium

27-07-2010 21:38

"Not only do we have to fight criminal operations and cruelty to animals on the high seas but also take responsibility and direct action to help those who are imprisoned in concrete pools, doomed to entertain us".

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Beat the Boreholes continues!!

27-07-2010 12:46

The community campaign against Shell's work in the estuary is going strong with regular actions happening. Last week locals viewed the borehole-drilling rigs during a walk on the strands of the estuary at low tide. Shell moved the rigs yesterday but were slowed down by kayaker action.

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Fri 30th July: 100 days of Gulf of Mexico oil spill

26-07-2010 14:22

Along with BP, Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, is also responsible for the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Transocean also built the wellheads for the Shell Corrib gas project in Mayo, Ireland where the community campaign is now in it's 10th year of struggle