Skip to content or view screen version

UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Full article

Tree Protest Cardiff

25-01-2005 23:45

Bovis are trying to knock down a wild area in Cardiff to build more luxury homes and wipe out a colony of slow worms. Grangetown residents have their first campaign meeting.

Full article

Tat List for Linslade

25-01-2005 21:51

Tat needed at Linslade - But most importantly people who can stay for a night or two...even longer if you can

Full article | 2 comments

LINSLADE BYPASS ACTION HOTS UP

25-01-2005 16:16

The controversial Linslade bypass has started to attract large interest from the media as photographers from the national newspapers and television have started turning up on site wanting to do interviews at the newly formed camp and occupied tree house. Reports leaked from the local media said that Buckinghamshire Council have had crisis meetings with the police and other councils that have been in a similar situation and are expecting another Newbury. They are also talking to their legal department over the rights to squat the camp and to see what laws they can use to stop the protesters

Full article | 4 comments

Treeplanting in Calderdale

24-01-2005 20:22

Went out for a weekends tree planting with 'Treesponsibility'. Folks from the local area, Leeds, Nottingham contributed their labour at Lower Benthead Farm about 5 miles north of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Full article | 2 comments

Future of Food

24-01-2005 16:25

The Future of Food, a conference organised by Resurgence, held at the City of London Girls School at the Barbican in the City of London, Saturday 22 January 2005.

Full article

Support needed on new Linslade Bypass protest camp

24-01-2005 11:28

Help needed at new protest camp on route of Linslade Bypass

Full article | 1 comment

Video - DIY Bio-diesel conversion

23-01-2005 00:13

Half-hour how-to video, Quicktime, 55 MB.

Full article

Lobby the Peak District National Park opposing the A628 Bypass

20-01-2005 16:01

Local anti-bypass campaign groups are encouraging the public (both locally and nationally) to lobby the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) about their support for the A628 Mottram-Tintwistle bypass, reminding them of their responsibility to "protect and conserve" the Park.

Full article

CONTRACTORS SUSPEND WORKS AT LINSLADE BYPASS DUE TO PROTESTS

20-01-2005 13:54

Work on the controversial Stoke Hammond to Linslade bypass has been temporarily halted due to the pressures of protests, local campaigners have just learned. Buckinghamshire County Council have said that work has been suspended on police advice while the security situation is reviewed. This follows the arrest yesterday of two women who chained themselves to a an excavator, with other local people standing in front of chainsaw crews. Local residents who turned up to stop any work this morning witnessed the machinery being loaded up and removed from the area. Buckinghamshire County Council have had an emergency meeting, and have told Friends of the Earth that work is to be suspended for several days.

Full article

Linslade Bypass Meetng in Oxford

20-01-2005 13:20

There will be a meeting of people interested in supporting the protest against the Linslade Bypass, which is near here.

Full article

Work stopped by local people at Linslade Bypass, Buckinghamshire

20-01-2005 10:15

Direct action stops destruction for Linslade bypass for a third day.

Full article | 12 comments

Work stopped by local people at Linslade Bypass, Buckinghamshire

20-01-2005 07:40

Direct action stops destruction for Linslade bypass for a third day.

Full article | 5 comments

Work on Linslade Bypass has begun

19-01-2005 11:48

The Linslade Bypass web page is saying...

Full article | 4 comments

Help needed to stop Linslade Bypass

19-01-2005 09:45

Activists are needed now to stop a bypass - a key part of Prescotts housing and airport plan for Southeast England.

Full article

The Walks: Open Letter to Project Manager

18-01-2005 12:31

One week after the treetop protest, I've sent an open letter to Richard Hales, the Walks project manager heading up the plan to fell over 200 trees, most of them healthy.

Full article | 4 comments

Work on linslade Bypass Imminent

18-01-2005 10:29

Reports have arrived from the protest against the Linslade Bypass that the beginning of work is imminent.

Full article | 11 comments

Ox Green Electricity Demo - Pics & Audio

17-01-2005 16:45

Up to 100 people turned out today to protest outside the OUP building on Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford against Oxford University's plan to consider a return to fossil fuels in order to cut fuel bills. Neither the rain nor strong winds could dampen the spirits of what was a good humoured and upbeat demonstration. While the meeting was happening inside, protestors made their voices heard with loud chants of disapproval.

Full article

Linslade Bypass Protests Begin

17-01-2005 16:24

Reisdents of Linslade, Leighton Buzzard and other places in the region held their first protest today at the site of a proposed dual carriageway across farmland on the route form Aylesbury to Milton Keynes.

Full article

nature, culture, and indygenous struggle for autonomy under threat from road bu

16-01-2005 19:15

three recent articles taken and translated from chiapas indymedia which explain the current situation in the mexico- guatemala border area, in the lacantun nature reserve. the governement is building a huge bridge to prepare the way for the transnationals and "progress", perhaps lets call it sustainable development. only that the zapatisas hold autonomous comunities in the area, and that we are resisting everywhere. dissent!g8