UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Defend Huntington Lane: Photo report and call-out (Part 2)

19-10-2010 20:42

More photos from the Huntington Lane camp, which is resisting UK Coal's attempts to destroy an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Shropshire. UK Coal plans to extract hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel of them all, in a huge open cast operation over the next few years. The National Eviction Team now appears to be maintaining a continuous presence on part of the site. Support is needed to defend the main camp.

Full article

Defend Huntington Lane: Photo report and call-out (Part 1)

19-10-2010 15:17

Defend Huntington Lane coal protest camp has been building up and digging in since March, resisting plans by UK Coal to blight this lovely area of Shropshire with more open cast hell. With the arrival of the National Eviction Team who cleared an unoccupied part of the camp in the middle of last week, the main camp now needs your urgent help and support. Take yourself, your ideas, your energy and supplies along to this beautiful part of Shropshire if you can and as soon as you can.

Full article

This weekend: Stop Nuclear Power Network Gathering in Bristol

18-10-2010 16:55

Stop Nuclear Power UK Network Gathering

Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th, Bristol

Meet, make plans, take action.

There are groups and individuals coming from all over -
Suffolk, London, France, Lancaster, Manchester, Wrexham, Bristol, Cumbria, Ireland, Hinkley, Exeter and more - Come along and get involved in creating a network of active anti-nuclear campaigns across Britain and Europe.

Full article | 6 comments

Solidarity/Scary Science demos

18-10-2010 14:51

Please take note of the following.

Full article | 5 comments

"Exotic" rotting animal corpses for sale at Three horseshoes pub in Hereford

17-10-2010 12:26

Kangaroo, crocodile, bison and ostrich "steaks" have appeared on the menu at The Three Horseshoes pub in Hereford. Please contact the pub asking them to remove the corpses from their menu and stop adding to the destruction of our world's wildlife. Thank you.

Full article

Video: 16 Oct 2010: World Food Day - Kids Action @ Cargill Ghent

17-10-2010 12:09

A small action to denounce the policy of the worlds biggest soy firm. Cargill mainly produces soy for fodder, that fattens our dairy, poultry, porc and...fish.

Full article | 1 comment

Huntington Lane Coal Mine Eviction?

13-10-2010 13:05

The eviction process at the Huntington Lane coal mine site near Telford, Shropshire appears to have begun, but no eviction notice has yet been served. The National Eviction Team and local constabulary are currently on site but no arrests have been made. Heavy machinery is now on site and breaking ground.

Full article

Huntington Lane Eviction Call Out!

13-10-2010 13:03

Huntington Lane protest camp is in the process of being evicted - part of the site has already been taken by bailiffs, and the other half is expecting eviction any time from tomorrow. The site was set up over six months ago on the site of a proposed open cast coal mine in a beautiful stretch of ancient woodland near the Wrekin in Shropshire. Find some mates and get yourself down there to support!
Call 07503 583419 or check out

http://defendhuntingtonlane.wordpress.com/

Full article | 3 comments

Film About Climate Activism Seeks Crowd Of Donors

12-10-2010 16:41

Just Do It, a pioneering new film following the life of the UK climate activist movement, is seeking funds to help complete the film, and release it free to the entire world in 2011. They're undertaking a massive push with guarantees of all their funding for the next 20 days being matched!

Full article

Three more restaurants selling foie gras in the Midlands - Please contact

12-10-2010 12:33

Foie gras is the pathological liver of a bird suffering from hepatic steatosis. Diarrhoea, panting, walking difficulties, lesions and inflammations of the neck are daily realities for birds raised to produce the disgusting 'delicacy' that is foie gras. Please ask the restaurants below to remove this barbaric product from their in-house menus.

Full article

Avonmouth targeted for international day of climate action

12-10-2010 09:19

This morning activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide (1) dropped a
banner reading 'IMPORT CO2AL: EXPORT POVERTY' from Avonmouth bridge near
the docks, as part of a global week of action for climate and
environmental justice

Full article

Anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch has been transferred

11-10-2010 09:41

First released by the International Red Aid

Full article

Le Beaujolais in Cirencester selling foie gras

10-10-2010 12:58

Foie gras, considered by some to be a delicacy, is produced by forcing a long metal pipe down the throats of ducks and geese and force-feeding them massive amounts of grain, resulting in their livers swelling to up to 10 times their normal size where the liver then becomes diseased and that disease is know as hepatic steatosis. The diseased liver is sold and served as 'foie gras'.

Full article | 6 comments

HLS site demos

10-10-2010 12:02

On 21st and 22nd October 2010 there will be demonstrations at both laboratories.

Full article

Sheffield Free School abundance urban scrumping

08-10-2010 18:21

4.30pm Urban Scrumping competition
Met at the free school with bikes and went to collect some apple :-)

Full article | 5 comments

PRESS RELEASE: Anti-nuclear campaigners blockade EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear power plant

04-10-2010 07:17

Since 7am this morning, anti-nuclear campaigners from different anti-nuclear groups which are part of the Stop Nuclear Power Network [1] are blockading the access road to EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear power station in protest against EDF's plans for nuclear new build and what they are calling a flawed consultation.

Full article

Planning Application Now In for UKCMRI Huge Lab proposed for Central London

03-10-2010 13:51

After years of controversy a planning application for the huge UKCMRI bioresearch laboratory proposed for central London has now been registered with Camden Council. Anyone living anywhere can email or write to the council with objections/comments - there is a limited amount of time for people to put in objections, officially until 14th October 2010. More details below......

Full article

Campesino Leader In Wales

03-10-2010 00:24

LATIN AMERICA: THE ECOSOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
Wednesday 13 October at 7 pm
Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place,Cardiff (opp. Student Union Building)
Organised by local environmental, green, trade union, socialist and latin american solidarity groups.

Full article

£400M research - No Nuke Dump Site in W Cumbria

02-10-2010 15:51

Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -
No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of nuclear waste!

Full article

EdF documents show new nuclear safety risk

30-09-2010 20:17

Leaked documents passed on to a French campaign group show that the design and mechanics of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) could lead to a Chernobyl-type accident.