UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Assaulted protesters file charges in Tennessee
21-08-2005 00:03
Building Threat to Greenbelt Land near Sheffield
20-08-2005 03:15
On the 18 May 2005, Rotherham Council agreed to sell land ........which will be used to provide an access road............ This was agreed without consulting users of this open space................A detailed planning application to build 600 houses, by Bryant Homes, is expected shortly. It is felt that the Council will have a conflict of interest when dealing with this application.Why does Rotherham want to enable building on this open countryside when it has a large number of brown field sites?Southend "Parklife" Group Occupy Department for Transport : Write Up
18-08-2005 21:55
Deportations in Iceland!
18-08-2005 18:29
Icelandic government attempt to deport 21 anti-dam protestors.Lydd Airport- protest at expansion- Aug 27th
18-08-2005 11:24
Newly formed coalition group ( Lydd Airport-No Expansion LA-NE, Shepway Friends of the Earth, Shepway Green Party, Shepway Lib Dems ) protest. Aug 27th 1100 amSee also below:meeting Aug 23rd Hythe Town hall 7.30pm (LAAG group)
Urgent: Help Needed to Stop Dangerous Oil Pipeline in Co. Mayo, Ireland
18-08-2005 11:17
pipeline. Five local farmers are currently in prison for blocking access to their land. This fight is winnable - but it needs support.
West Papua Weekend!
17-08-2005 16:59
Announcing a weekend of events in aid of the Free West Papua Campaign, and its work supporting the oppressed tribal people of West Papua against Indonesian occupation.saving iceland electronic blockade TODAY!
17-08-2005 10:46
Electronic blockade Wednesday 17. August from 10 am.Lets force Landsvirkjun to face up to what we think of their destruction of Iceland for their own personal profit and that of multinational corporations.
Video clip - road protests ejected from Dept of Transport
17-08-2005 00:11
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Anti-Road protesters occupy Dept of Transport
16-08-2005 21:54
Mountain Justice Summer shuts down US strip mine, 10 arrested
15-08-2005 20:19
Knoxville, TN - As dawn approached this morning, activistsstood on an ancient Appalachian mountain in a dramatic
protest against mountain top mining. This is the first time
a mountain has been taken over in the struggle to protect
the Appalachian Mountains from the devastating practices of
mountain top mining. Dedicated citizens are blockading
National Coal's strip mine in scenic Campbell County,
Tennessee to halt the destruction of Zeb Mountain
From Nigeria to Co Mayo
15-08-2005 11:14
People- power wins the day!
14-08-2005 20:14
Southend Borough Council back down on plans to destroy local allotments for school-twinning developmentIllegal Roadstone Quarry in Peak District National Park Sabotaged
14-08-2005 19:58
Earlier this summer an illegal roadstone quarry at Back Dale Quarry, on Longstone Edge Nr Bakewell was targeted by saboteurs.First plastic bottle banks in Norwich to be installed this week
13-08-2005 23:48
Norwich City Council is due to install the first plastic bottle recycling banks within its boundary.Voting on their money problems, Germans will boost nuclear industry
13-08-2005 21:31
Should Germans pitch out their Social Democrat-Greens government next month because they think the Conservatives will put more money back into their purses, they’ll be getting a nuclear industry boost into the bargain.Iceland actions latest
13-08-2005 15:21
We have relocated to Reykjavik and the camp in the East of Iceland has been dissolved. We have accomplished what we set out to do in the East and are extending our campaign to the capital in spite of heavy state repression, police surveilance and harassment.Spodden Valley regeneration and asbestos- a growing scandal?
12-08-2005 20:01
BBC TV North West Tonight investigates the controversial Spodden Valley planning application.Were Councillors and the BBC misled over asbestos test results?
Jayne Barrett of BBC North West Tonight reports that residents in Rochdale are today calling on the office of Deputy Prime Minister to for a Public Inquiry because they suggest that developers have seriously misled town councillors and the BBC over important facts about asbestos contamination.
This concerns the former Turner and Newall site in Spodden Valley, Rochdale where there are controversial plans by a consortium, headed by Countryside Properties, to build over 600 homes and a children’s nursery on the site of the world’s largest asbestos textile factory
Professor Yuri Bandazhevsky is free
11-08-2005 18:28
Professor Yuri Bandazhevsky has just been releasedPERU PUT ASIDE THE PROTOCOL OF KYOTO
10-08-2005 20:31
PERU HOLD IN THE MOUNTAIN SUFFICIENT HYDRAULIC POWER RESOURCES TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY AND SUPLY ALL THE SUDAMERICAN CONTINENT WITH CLEAN AND REGENERABLE ENERGY, AND THEY HAVE NO REASON TO CONFLICT AGAINST THE KYOTO PROTOCOL BY GIVING PERMISSION TO BUILD 4 TERMAL POWER PLANTS.
