UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

International Week of Direct Action against SHELL begins!

20-01-2011 11:44

Good Morning, We have just heard that Shell oil have received permission to complete their raw gas pipeline in Co. Mayo Ireland.

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helestine visits advanced manufacturing death park

19-01-2011 12:03

Lordy Lord Helseltine the old wrinkly had a party with his chums at the Advanced Manufacturing (Death) Park last week...

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UG#534 - The Lightbulb Conspiracy (Planned Obsolescence, Bottled Water etc.)

18-01-2011 08:45

Did you know that in Livermore, California a bulb has been lit constantly since 1901 and is still going strong? This week's headline piece is a radio adaptation of The Lightbulb Conspiracy, a film about how the first international cartel not only increased prices but to decreased the lifetime of lightbulbs. We also hear Juliet Schor on overproduction and radio adaptations of Annie Leonard's The Story of Bottled Water, The Story of Cosmetics and The Story of Stuff, plus Heather Rogers' The Hidden Life of Garbage.

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Chinese Go Shopping!

17-01-2011 20:26

"As China Goes, So Goes the World. How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything." That's the title from a new book by Karl Gerth. He's a fellow at Merton College, teaching modern Chinese history at Oxford University, in Britain. We talk how big name brands and their knock-offs, plus cars as status symbols, invaded China. Why didn't they take the green energy route? Did the Chinese government know Western consumer culture was failing, unsustainable, and damaging the world?

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How close are you to a potential opencast site?

17-01-2011 11:09

A by product of the work done to suggest that 553m metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere is the revelation that most of this coal lies so close to where people live. read more here.

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Climate Change and the 500m Buffer Zone Bill

17-01-2011 10:56

This press release accompanies the publication of MOPG's 5th Briefing Note in support of the 500m Buffer Zone Bill and explains why those concerned about Climate Change should support the Bill.

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Wood Group PLC to build power plant in Israel

17-01-2011 09:22

Aberdeen’s favorite son who, not being content with destroying the city goes into business with Israel.
Updates on Donald Trumps vision for a "Real life Trumpton" and how he will force local fire brigade personnel to change their names to "Pugh! Pugh! Barney McGrew! Cuthbert! Dibble! and Grubb!" And other songs of doom from way up North...

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The Machines Change, the Work Remains the Same

10-01-2011 09:52

When I first got involved in left/radical political organizing in the 1990s, I don’t recall any of us referring to our efforts as “phone activism” or calling ourselves “fax activists.” A friend who started organizing in the early 1960s assured me that he never heard the term “mimeograph activism” in those days. We used telephones, fax machines, and mimeographs in our organizing work, but the machines didn’t define our work and we didn’t spend a lot of time arguing about the implications of using them.

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Ruthless Treatments of Australian and New Zealand Sheep

10-01-2011 04:10

mulesing, sheep dog bites, whips, trampling by horses, freezing to death from early fleecing, being slammed on the ground by shearers and crammed into boats, thirst, choking to
death on their own blood,

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mass killings of penguins, manatees,dolphins,bats, pelicans, blackbirds, doves,

09-01-2011 05:43

In the December of 2010 and January of 2011 the mass killings of many
living beings from penguins to birds and fishes has exploded.

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Cold Winter? Global Warming?

08-01-2011 17:31

Could colder winters in U.S. & U.K. be partly result of low Summer Sea Ice? Why does the Jet Stream dip? Climate disruption interview with Dr. Jeff Masters, Meteorologist with The Weather Underground (wunderblog.com) - th 56th largest site on the Net. Also covered: Australian flooding, stormy future. From Radio Ecoshock Jan 7, 2010 24 minutes 6 MB.

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Leeds Toxic incinerator meeting

08-01-2011 12:31

Toxic incinerator meeting / consultation.
Consultation in to the South Leeds Toxic waste incinerator .

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Earth First! winter moot 2011

07-01-2011 20:06

Earth First! Winter Moot 2011 - February 4th, 5th and 6th - Sumac Centre, Nottingham

Come along if you want to plot and plan with others involved in ecological direct action from around the country

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Newbury Bypass walk (15th anniversary of the evictions)

07-01-2011 15:52

A reunion. If you were there, come back and reminisce. If you weren't there, come and find out why this event was important!

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Scale of Opencast Mining in England Revealed

06-01-2011 19:41

A group in Leicestershire has produced evidence about the current and possible future locations for opencast coal mining.in England. In all it identifies 23 Current sites and 43 potential sites.The evidence is in the form of a two part review and it has been produced to support the arguments for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill which gets its 2nd Reading in the House of Commons on 11/2/11.

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Sizewell blockaders again walk free from court / case dismissed

05-01-2011 11:05

Anti-nuclear campaigners again walk free from court / case dismissed

Two anti nuclear campaigners, Andreas Speck (46) from London and Ian Mills (45) from Chippenham, who appeared at Lowestoft Magistrates Court today (4 January) on charges of "failing to leave land" (S69(3)(a) CJPOA 1994) when they blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk on 22 February 2010 [1] walked free after the case was dismissed when the prosecution did not offer any evidence.

Report on the original action (Feb 2010):

Local Democracy Dumped! - Sizewell nuclear plant blockaded again

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/446513.html

Press Release (Tuesday 4 January 2011):

http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2011/01/anti-nuclear-campaigners-again-walk.html

See also:

Activists 2 - EDF 0

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471549.html

Sizewell: Protesters walk free after CPS error

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/sizewell_protesters_walk_free_after_cps_error_1_766391

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WikiLeaks and Whaling: Paul Watson Interview

05-01-2011 01:59

A live interview with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Captain Paul Watson, on the bridge of the "Stephen Irwin," in the Southern Sea between New Zealand and Antarctica. SSCS is blocking the harpoons of Japanese whalers -- on the occasion of WikiLeaks' revelation of a 9 Nov 2009 State Department cable collaborating with Japanese fisheries and urging revocation of Sea Shepherd's tax-exemption.

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WikiLeaks cable(s) on US and multinational oil interests in Nigeria, and indigineous suppression, including a "Making Contact" documentary on Nigeria from the national Radio Project.

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Biodiversity: Peak Nature?

04-01-2011 23:32

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. —Aldo Leopol

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Activists 2 - EDF 0

04-01-2011 17:17

Sizewell Blockade day one of a four day trial- Activist 2- EDF 0

For the second time in Lowestoft Magistrate courts- in court three, activists who blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk walk free.

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Transforming Power for Climate Action

04-01-2011 00:05

A powerful speech by Judy Rebick, as she describes lessons from the women's movement, and the transition from anti-globalist protests - to climate action. Rebick a well-known Canadian feminist & broadcaster, finds hope & leadership from aboriginal people, especially Bolivia.