UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

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Undercover police agent publicly outed at conference

15-10-2011 18:41

Senior police spy for over two decades uncovered.

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Autumn Action Day at Faslane Peace Camp 22nd October

14-10-2011 19:54

A day of wonderful workshops, events and direct action.

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Just do it: the film Sheffield Screening 18th Oct

13-10-2011 21:50

Dates: 18 October 2011
Times: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Presentation Area on level 4 (upstairs), University of Sheffield
Students' Union, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TG

Sheffield University host a free screening at 6:00pm on 18th October as part of our nationwide day of Campus Screenings.

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Anti-Frackin Music Sample

13-10-2011 16:53

A quick sample of great anti-frackin songs from a new Australian CD. Find them and use them - from

http://www.wholelottafrackingoingon.com

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Call to scientists to join ant-"biofuel" appeal

08-10-2011 18:07

Europe’s agrofuel devours the rainforests.

In a joint letter 168 scientists have warned the EU against so-called “biofuel”. They say plant energy from field crops is anything but climate-friendly, which the EU claims it is.

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Banner drop in solidarity with Australian forests

08-10-2011 16:38

As part of an international day of action, some people did a banner drop in Oxford.

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Abrupt Climate Change - Has Is Started?

06-10-2011 19:19

Sure it was great at the beach in October. BUT science shows the climate can shift as much as 4 degrees C in less than a decade, with violent weather. Has this already begun? Learn about abrupt climate change, and what we might do to survive it, from Dr. Alder Stone Fuller, in this two part Radio Ecoshock interview.

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South West Food Sovereignty Skillshare

04-10-2011 10:55

Due to the overwhelming amount of out-of-county support, the Somerset Food Sovereignty Skillshare is now becoming a south-west wide event.

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Call from France to all UK anti-nuclear Activists

03-10-2011 06:45

INVITATION FOR A BIG CAMP AND MASS ACTION AGAINST THE NUCLEAR TRANSPORT CASTOR IN VALOGNES (FRANCE) ON THE 24TH AND 25TH OF NOVEMBER 2011, JUST ACROSS THE CHANNEL

The french and the english government have this common feature of being mad about nuclear power. Whereas Germany, Switzerland and Italy are stepping out of the nuclear energy, France and Great-Britain are doing as if Fukushima never happened. If we refuse to let Fukushima become, like Tchernobyl before, an accident without consequence, it is time to take action, NOW.

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How A Far Away Island Can Rock Your World

29-09-2011 18:15

The peat fires have returned to Indonesia. Last time that happened, a carbon burst larger than car emissions staged the hottest year on record (1998). Peat and forest fires in this one country can help tip climate. Plus Indonesia is world's largest shipper of coal for electricity generation. Interview with Dr. Florian Siegert from the GeoBio-Centre of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. India has huge coal scheme and is the biggest buyer of Indonesia coal. We talk with Shankar Sharma, electricy expert. With 173 new Indian coal plants approved this year, is it a Ponzi scheme?

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Nuclear power station to become target for mass blockade

28-09-2011 19:51

Protesters from all over the UK are converging on Hinkley Point nuclear power station to say no to 'new nuclear'.

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60 international activists occupy Gold Corporation headquarters in Rosia Montana

28-09-2011 17:41

Today, September 28th, at 12:00 o'clock, approximately 60 international activists taking part in the Reclaim the Fields camp [1], together with the local association Alburnus Maior [2], from Rosia Montana, Romania, occupied and blocked the entrance to the Rosia Montana Gold Corporations [3] headquarters in the village's Old Square. This action was in defiance of the companies continuing attempt to expropriate locals and destroy an area protected by Romanian conservation law.

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Hinkley Point nuclear power station to be targeted in mass blockade - 3rd Oct

28-09-2011 16:10

Nuclear power station to become target for mass blockade

Stop New Nuclear - Wed, 28/09/2011

People from all over the UK are set to descend on Hinkley Point nuclear power station [in Somerset] to protest again EDF Energy’s plans to build two new mega-reactors next to the existing site.

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Cinema Winstanley @ Land & Freedom Camp

26-09-2011 18:40

Dateline: Clapham Common, London, UK, 20:00-23:30, Sat 24 Sep 11 – Land & Freedom Campers (

http://landandfreedom.squat.net ) and intrigued local folk get to share an al fresco cinema experience centred around the 1975 biopic of the great English revolutionary pamphleteer and Digger Gerrard Winstanley (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrard_Winstanley ). Under the spreading London planetrees, we enjoyed reclaiming our C17 radical history, the better to empower ourselves for ensuring C21 continues to be a century of radical history in the making.

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International Reclaim the Fields camp joins Rosia Montana against the new Romani

26-09-2011 18:39

On the 24 September at 15:00 o'clock, the international participants of the Reclaim the Fields camp, together with the local association Alburnus Maior, from Rosia Montana, Romania, held a lively street demonstration in the village's Old Square. Local and international people are opposing plans to open Europe's largest open cast gold mine and a proposed new law on expropriation currently being discussed in the Romanian parliament. The law would enable private mining companies, instead of the Romanian state and judicial system, to carry out forced expropriation of residents, in a clear violation of human rights.

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Autumn Action Day at Faslane Peace Camp

26-09-2011 13:48

A wonderful day of workshops,excellent events, and live music.

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No to Road-building

25-09-2011 19:28

75 campaigners sent a message to this pro-road building Tory government - Don't trash our countryside. Meeting at three rail stations on the south coast on Saturday (Sept 24 '11) - the three groups converged at the threatened Combe Haven Valley in a protest against the proposed £100m Bexhill Bypass.

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Extreme Rain, Dengue Fever, R.F. Kennedy Jr.

24-09-2011 03:24

Pakistan is flooding again, millions more homeless. Panic about Dengue fever. Dengue in the Caribbean now, 12 cases reported this year in Florida. Learn what Dengue is, what to do. New diseases with global warming. Then a powerful speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the Commonwealth Club of Calif. How coal poisoned us all, & fish too. How corporations control media, stifling Progressive radio. Plus a vision of fossil-free America.

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EU opens up on secret fishing deals

23-09-2011 11:28

Ever since us Europeans were able to, we have sent our fishing vessels to go far beyond our own shores and catch fish the world over. With an increasing market demand for cheap fish and overfishing problems in our region we needed to look elsewhere. Now what would be easier than to fish in the waters of developing nations which have little option but to accept little incentives, such as extra humanitarian aid, in exchange for the over-exploitation of their waters?

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Why does Cuadrilla own an old gas well near Elswick in Lancashire?

17-09-2011 23:07

The Elswick-1 gas well was completed and stimulated by Independent Energy in 1993. The gas field, which was commissioned in 1996, produces gas from a low permeability sandstone reservoir at a depth of around 4000 ft and is used to generate power which is fed into the electricity grid. It has generated around 1 MW of power from a reciprocating gas engine since 1996.