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.helestine visits advanced manufacturing death park
19-01-2011 12:03
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UG#534 - The Lightbulb Conspiracy (Planned Obsolescence, Bottled Water etc.)
18-01-2011 08:45
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Chinese Go Shopping!
17-01-2011 20:26
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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.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.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...
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.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 todeath on their own blood,
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 manyliving beings from penguins to birds and fishes has exploded.
Cold Winter? Global Warming?
08-01-2011 17:31
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Leeds Toxic incinerator meeting
08-01-2011 12:31
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Consultation in to the South Leeds Toxic waste incinerator .
Earth First! winter moot 2011
07-01-2011 20:06
Earth First! Winter Moot 2011 - February 4th, 5th and 6th - Sumac Centre, NottinghamCome 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
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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.Sizewell blockaders again walk free from court / case dismissed
05-01-2011 11:05
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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
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Press Release (Tuesday 4 January 2011):
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Activists 2 - EDF 0
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Sizewell: Protesters walk free after CPS error
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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.
ALSO,
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.
Biodiversity: Peak Nature?
04-01-2011 23:32
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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 0For the second time in Lowestoft Magistrate courts- in court three, activists who blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk walk free.
Transforming Power for Climate Action
04-01-2011 00:05
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