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Tar Sands Protest at BP HQ

02-09-2009 11:58

Tar Sands Monsters sliming outside BP's greenwash partner - the National Gallery
Environmental campaigners protest over British Petroleum’s tar sands extraction project

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Direct action against climate criminals

01-09-2009 15:09

direct action against climate criminals

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Tombola Action in Central London tomorrow!

31-08-2009 12:29

22 Climate Criminals in a Target Tombola Tour of Central London...

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O2 Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising

30-08-2009 11:50

New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating since 2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom; climate policies that focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans -- Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

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An Afternoon @ The Ravens Ait Island Occupation Ecological Community Centre

24-08-2009 17:03

Ravens Ait Island was occupied and an ecological community centre was created - negotaitons were in process with Kingston council when on 1st May 2009
around 4.15am this morning around 100 commandos stormed Ravens Ait island
they arrived in 27 black zodiac inflatables

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'Dirty timebomb' ticking in Russian nuclear dump threatens Europe

24-08-2009 10:03

20,000 discarded uranium fuel rods stored in the Arctic Circle are corroding. The possible result? Detonation of a massive radioactive bomb experts say could rival the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

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Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation?

23-08-2009 10:48

A debate with Paul Kingsnorth.

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Vestas - support needed to prevent blades leaving UK

22-08-2009 17:48

Vestas has started rapidly shipping blades from stock in Southampton to the USA. Two ships carrying 90 blades each have sailed from Southampton this week (17-21 August), and a third is currently being loaded with 109 blades. According to the Vestas workers’ contacts in Southampton docks, another two sailings are scheduled soon.

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Nuclear New Build Blessed by Bishop of Carlisle

21-08-2009 14:36

Carlisle Cathedral - Jesus would be turning the tables over!
The new Bishop of Carlisle has given his blessing to new nuclear build in Cumbria, proclaiming “I am very enthusiastic about nuclear power as a green option for the future.”
Radiation Free Lakeland sent an open letter to the Bishop in June - there has been no reply. Today representatives from Carlisle Action on Climate Change and Radiation Free Lakeland delivered a letter direct to Carlisle Cathedral.

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An extended deadline – PAWS for thought…not oil

21-08-2009 09:53

Ancient woodland is under threat from oil drilling and we need your help to try and save it!

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Caucasus: The War That Was, The World War That Might Have Been

19-08-2009 14:59

Copyright. John O'Laughlin, University of Colorado, Boulder
What a resumption of fighting between Georgia and South Ossetia will entail is indicated by an examination of the scale of the catastrophe that was narrowly averted a year ago.

A coordinated attack by Georgia on South Ossetia and Abkhazia and by Azerbaijan on Nagorno Karabakh would have led to a regional conflagration and possibly a world war.

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Welcon succeeds where Vestas say they could not !!

18-08-2009 14:35

So ... On the one hand Vestas say there is no demand, yet ..
Welcon say... There is !!

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Sunrise Off Grid Transition Gathering 20-23rd Aug, Somerset

16-08-2009 23:48

The time has come to embrace solutions. Whether we face the End of the Age of Oil or the End of Time itself, our duty as stewards of Planet Earth is to consciously step forward into a new world, forging the future and reconnecting with our Home.

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Climate campers reclaim Ffos-y-fran

15-08-2009 15:14

CCC01
Campers at Climate Camp Cymru near Merthyr Tydfil have upped the ante and have set off to enter Ffos-y-fran open cast coal mine, just yards from the camp.

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Nuclear Power Trashing the Climate

15-08-2009 12:42

The Joker
Nuclear Power produces EMISSIONS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN CO2 - not to mention nearly 500,000 tonnes of Co2 last year from Sellafield's gas plant. The barrage of pro nuke propaganda is aiming to bounce the country into nuclear new build. MP for Copeland Jamie Reed has been handsomely rewarded for consistently lying to Parliament about "homegrown, climate friendly and safe" nuclear power.


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Nottingham Vestas Solidarity Rally in Market Square

12-08-2009 22:59

On Wednesday 12th August at 5:15pm, supporters of those in dispute at Vestas, met by the Left Lion in Nottingham's Market Square.

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International action day against uranium mining in Finland

12-08-2009 22:58

Media Release
12/08/2009

International Action Day Against Uranium Mining:
Ranua Rescue Action Day With Actions In Several Countries

Helsinki/Magdeburg Activists of the 'Nuclear Heritage Network', a
international network of anti-nuclear activists, call for tomorrow's
international action day against Uranium mining. Following a call for
help of residents of the Finnish community Ranua, activists of the
growing anti-nuclear movement of Finland decided to initiate
solidarity actions. On Thursday in several countries events will take
place.

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Flotilla against new Bradwell nuclear reactor sails on Essex coast

12-08-2009 22:32

Anti-nuclear campaigners from Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) staged a flotilla and vigil on the Blackwater Estuary on the Essex coast on Sunday 9 August, 2009 in protest at plans to build a new nuclear power plant at Bradwell.

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Photos of Stroud Vestas Solidarity demo

12-08-2009 18:28

Save Jobs * Save the Environment
Very hastily arranged, but featuring a local worker from green electric supplier Ecotricity, a local Green Party councillor, the local Labour & Cooperative (backbench & rebellious) MP David Drew, and a random bloke who turned up and joined in because he agreed with us. Not to mention myself of course, the local Bicycological Anarchist troublemaker ;-) ~150 leaflets given out during the day, to a receptive public...

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Protesters seize site of Wales' first Climate Camp

12-08-2009 17:18

At 7.30am this morning, around 60 protesters set up the site of Wales' first Climate Camp on the edge of Merthyr Tydfil, next to the controversial Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine.
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