UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Heat is on - climate change news round up

29-09-2005 11:17

Here is a round up of some of the latest news on climate change. Look out for an audio version of this news on rampART radio...

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Documentary about NYC's Critical Mass at Broadway Cinema

27-09-2005 20:19

JUST A REMINDER - there is a screening of Still We Ride at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham at 6PM on Wednesday. SWR is a 37 minute doc about the ongoing (still after 1 yr!) police crackdown on bicycling and free speech in New York City. Two of the directors from the US will be on hand to answer questions and chat.

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Leeds Art & Fairtrade Day

27-09-2005 19:23

Leeds is currently host to the 'earth from the air' exhibition and The Light is to host a 'fair trade' day

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e-spam pro-pollution moguls at Toyota

27-09-2005 19:09

e-mail addresses for major Toyota execs in N. America, who can be contacted re. car culture, SUVs, global warming etc.

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Spodden Valley asbestos controversy: North West MEP gives frank opinions to BBC

27-09-2005 13:53

North West England MEP Den Dover was recently interviewed by Allan Beswick on the BBC GMR Breakfast Show. They spoke at length about many of the issues facing the controversial planning application to build over 600 homes and a children’s nursery on the site of what was once the world’s largest asbestos textile factory- Turner Brothers Asbestos- in the Spodden Valley, Rochdale, UK

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Spodden Valley: Asbestos and the environment - More cross-party support...

27-09-2005 13:45

Following a recent visit to the Spodden Valley by Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies and a future planed visit by Labour MPs and MEPs. Words of support also came from UKIP MEP John Whittaker. This weekend saw members of the Conservative Party also express concerns over health & safety and the environment in the Spodden Valley, Rochdale, UK. Bithplace of the world's modern asbestos industry and home to what was the world's largest asbestos textile factory:

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Spodden Valley asbestos: Indymedia coverage mentioned in European Parliament

27-09-2005 12:43

INDYMEDIA and other internet news archives have been mentioned in the European Parliament’s recent conference on asbestos that discussed a planning application to build 600+ homes and a children's nursery on the site of what was the world's largest asbestos textile factory- Spodden Valley, Rochdale in North West England..

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Tasmanian activists return to Weld Valley

27-09-2005 01:45

Activists have established a tree-sit village in Southern Tasmania's (Australia) threatened Lower Weld valley. The innovative protest is halting a proposed road that will provide access to 22 coupes of high conservation value forest bordering the Tasmanian World Heritage Area.

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Wind Power to Destroy Economy?

25-09-2005 22:26

Anti New Labour rant cut to Hypercane query

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Bournemouth Critical Mass

25-09-2005 16:47

Critical Mass in Bournemouth -

Wednesday the 28th of September.

Meeting at the Lansdowne roundabout [near the uni] at 9 am, if you miss us and want to find us call this no 07745789258.

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No Widening M1 meeting

24-09-2005 14:16

Sunday 2nd Oct at 7pm
MATILDA, 111 Matilda Street (old yorkshire arts space) in town. Meeting for planning a campiagn of opposition to the government’s plans to spend over £3 billion on widening the M1 to 4 lanes.

All welcome.

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"You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."

24-09-2005 13:24

WOW! America announces the War On Weather.

With hurricanne Rita tearing apart the oil industry in the Gulf and Texan shoreline, and with New Orleans flooded for the second time in a month, you'd might imagine that the USA might start to wonder about a few things. You might think that they might start to take seriously the threat of climate change....

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Car advertisers want Clown army to help them

23-09-2005 15:48

Last month for some bizarre reason and email appeared in circas in box from a car advertiser asking the clown army to take part in a new ad for a citroen car - Kolonel Klepto respondes to their stupidity

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Bilston Glen website updated

23-09-2005 14:29

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Gorleben nuclear train on protester's death day

23-09-2005 14:14

Gorleben, northern Germany, 23 September - - Opponents of nuclear energy say they have information that the next train of 12 caskets of highly radioactive waste will leave a plutonium factory in France on 6 November for a storage hall near this village.

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Cyclist lobby group CTC campaigns for new rights for cyclists - join in!

23-09-2005 10:43

Cyclists are being urged by CTC to join an online campaign to open up new rights for off-road cycling.

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Lobby time for Tarmac?

23-09-2005 08:23

Applying for planning permission from the local authority can be one of the most stressful things that you can do. Most people would not even bother is they realised the application was contrary to council policy, especially if in addition, English Heritage had said the development would have an unacceptable impact on a nationally important heritage site.

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Al Qaeda, "yes we did it"

22-09-2005 17:11

As the super storm Rita rolls towards Texas this week, Al Qaeda has claimed responsibilty...

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CITY NEEDS MORE ROOM-ROOM, LESS VROOM-VROOM

22-09-2005 15:56

The myth that buses are the source of Birmingham's traffic congestion problem was dramatically debunked last Saturday (17th Sep) when Birmingham Friends of the Earth staged a 'sit-down demonstration' in the streets of Digbeth.

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Israeli Anarchists Occupy Main Settler-Road in the West Bank

22-09-2005 09:18

A group known as the "Anarchist Anti-Zionist Enviromental Macho Bicyclist Fashion Police" (spells GRUSHKA in Hebrew) has managed to stop traffic in one of Israel's main apartheid roads, if only for a few hours