UK Ecology Newswire Archive
S.O.S. from Venice,Italy
28-07-2005 20:25
Nothing can be more exasperating then the realization that nefarious financial interests are wrecking the environment with the false excuse of saving it.This global tendency applies also to the lagoon city of Venice.
More and more Venetians suspect these days the four billion dollar project to ‘Save Venice’ from flooding is padding certain pockets while leaving their city to sink deeper into its lagoon.
Norwich Greens challenge plans for a fried and polluting Norwich economy
28-07-2005 20:12
Green County councillors are to raise urgent concerns at Monday's cabinet meeting that the Norfolk County Council are planning to make Norwich a new "superheated" economic growth point without proper without public consultation.'Tornado' hits south Birmingham
28-07-2005 14:46
Extreme winds felled trees in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham in an intense minute-long storm.Scandal affects major East Anglian road-scheme
28-07-2005 09:25
A scandal is just now hitting the news in Norfolk, concerning a senior LibDem County Councillor who has been found guilty by the independent Council 'Standards Cttee' of repeatedly and noxiously misrepresenting a £200m road-scheme as being environmentally-friendly.police endanger Iceland dam protestors
26-07-2005 16:54
Lock-on blockade at Karahnjukar. Icelandic police tell drivers to start machinery risking protestors' lives.CHAOS AT ICELAND DAM BLOCKADE
26-07-2005 14:44
SECURITY GUARDS AND POLICE PUT ACTIVISTS' LIVES AT RISK AT ICELANDIC DAM BLOCKADEPolice and security guards at the Karahnjukar Dam construction site in Iceland, last night ordered the bulldozers drivers to start their engines and move off, despite there being more than 25 people locked on to the underside of their vehicles.
“It was terrifying, if someone hadn't jumped up on the front of the truck and pulled out the fuel line then I think people may have been killed last night” said one of the protesters from the UK.
Action Chaos through the night in Iceland
26-07-2005 11:03
Protesters preventing the Karahnjukar dam project in the Icelandic highlands from going ahead have reported that over night things got very heavy.Gary Batchelor, 1958-2005
24-07-2005 00:36
The Faslane G8 Blockade from a cyclist's point of view
23-07-2005 19:57
This set is from someone who participated in the g8bikeride.
First lock on in Icelandic history
23-07-2005 19:49
see. www.savingiceland.org
Has Southend on Sea Borough Council Lost the Plot???
23-07-2005 14:39
Southend Borough Council are considering destroying a statutory allotment site to make way for for school development plans...and now for THE WEATHER
23-07-2005 05:25
[link] Audio Collage of various voices, music, sounds about The Human effects of Global Warming contributing to Climate Changesfirst ever lock on in Icelandic history
23-07-2005 00:03
Part 2 of "Even more pictures about Faslane Big Blockade"
22-07-2005 20:24
More pictures from Big Blockade at Faslane
22-07-2005 20:07
Nestle's bottled water business exposed
22-07-2005 19:50
The damaging environmental impact of Nestle's water bottling operations in Brazil and the US were featured on BBC Face the Facts today. Baby Milk Action, which coordinates the boycott of Nestle over its aggressive baby food marketing has additional information on its website.M6 Expressway - the 'con' in consultation
22-07-2005 08:26
On 19 July the government announced it was going to press ahead with plans for the 50 mile M6 Expressway tolled motorway between Birmingham and Manchester. This is despite 98% of 9528 consulatation respondents stating they did not want the road.Six minutes to save 5,000 years of history
21-07-2005 12:04
images of protest camp in Iceland II
20-07-2005 22:06
