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Wednesday is International Radioactive Waste Action Day

28-09-2010 12:54

The date was chosen to commemorate the worst known radioactive waste disaster -- a reprocessing storage tank explosion, following loss of cooling water, in the Ural Mountains of Siberia on Sept. 29, 1957 . An entire region contaminated, hundreds immediately killed and the poisoning and death of many more since, due to the lingering radioactive contamination of a vast area of the environment.

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Coal Dust will be a problem if Minorca goes ahead say Protestors

27-09-2010 15:20

This Press Release describes why the Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) believe that visible black coal dust will affect the daily life of local people as MOPG publish its 3rd objection.

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Stop Agrofuel Power Station Demo Report

26-09-2010 23:09

A National Rally Against Agrofuels at Portland, Dorset on Saturday 25th September, 2010, was organised by No Oil Palm Energy (NOPE), supported by Campaign Against Climate Change, Biofuelwatch and Food Not Fuel.

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UK Coal fails to respond to two more Minorca Opencast Objections

23-09-2010 11:22

This press release outlines why MOPG are still mounting objections to the Minorca Application on economic grounds.

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Minorca Application lacks a through Traffic Assessment

21-09-2010 10:40

As the Minorca Opencast Protest Group prepares to put it's case to Leicestershire County Council on why UK Coal's Minorca Surface Mine Application should be rejected it has begun to publish it's detailed objections. This Press Release out lines the first of these.

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London nuclear conference demo calls for EDF boycott

16-09-2010 16:18

Delegates arriving at a nuclear suppliers’ conference taking place in central London on Monday morning (13 September) were greeted by ten anti-nuclear activists displaying banners calling for a boycott of energy giant Électricité de France (EDF), the organisers of the conference.

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Demo outside DECC against subsidies for agrofuels

16-09-2010 15:55

15th September

Activists outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change protest against government subsidies for agrofuel burning power stations.

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Demo against EDF's new nuclear plans at Hinkley - photos

16-09-2010 15:00

Images from the demo held on Sunday 12 September 2010 at Hinkley Point in Somerset against EDF's proposed new nuclear power stations, and the company's planned destruction of greenfield sites even before any planning application has been submitted for a new reactor.

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New Opencast Applications likely to be less successful ?

14-09-2010 15:18

This press release highlights the publication of our new Briefing Note which explains why the Minorca Opencast Protest Group believe that a change in Government Energy Policy makes a successful Minorca Surface Mine less likely.

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Stop Nuclear Power gathering Bristol 23rd Oct

13-09-2010 16:35

The Stop Nuclear network is a grassroots network of groups and individuals taking action against nuclear power and its expansion and supporting sustainable alternatives.

Date for your diaries:
Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October, Bristol

Meet people from your region that are taking action, make plans together and build solidarity with people who live next door to Hinkley.

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Happendon Wood Occupied! New Direct Action Camp Against Scottish Coal

12-09-2010 19:52

Early evening on Sunday 12th September a group of autonomous individuals successfully occupied a new site in Happendon Wood, South Lanarkshire. Coal Action Scotland are inviting people to join The Happendon Wood Action Camp (THWAC) to help defend the wood from destruction by Scottish Coal, and to take action in solidarity with communities in the area resisting the expansion of the coal industry in the Douglas Valley.

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Afghanistan War Vote, Direct Action at Parliament - Pictures

10-09-2010 14:31

On the day the British Parliament attempts to assemble for the first debate and vote on the continuing occupation of Afghanistan, anti-war campaigners Maria Gallastegui and Skywarrior breach security at the Parliament building and scale scaffolding successfully hanging anti-war banners, a demand to bring the troops home and a section 6 notice of the 1977 Criminal Law Act preventing violent removal.

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Alternative Vegan Festival, London

10-09-2010 13:00

Can't afford to be vegan? Think again... veganism isn't a privilege for the rich!

The Alternative Vegan Festival is a DIY, grassroots event which will show how being vegan doesn't have to cost the Earth.

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National Demonstration Against Agrofuels

09-09-2010 14:16

Pack your buckets and spades for a day out to Portalnd in Dorset. There will be a coach leaving Bristol on Saturday 25th September at 10.00am for a march, rally, workshops followed by live music and food. There is another coach leaving London at 9.00 am.

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West Cumbria Revolt Begins over High Level Nuke Dump.

07-09-2010 10:21

Campaign group Radiation Free Lakeland have written to all Allerdale Councillors urging them to support Councillor Joe Sandwith's proposal that they should withdraw from the dodgy process designed to force Cumbria into "geological disposal" of nuclear waste.

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The End of the World As We Know it? ... and the rise of the Post-Carbon era ...

06-09-2010 20:18

Only 500 generations ago, hunter-gatherers began cultivating crops and forming their tiny communities into social hierarchies. Around 15 to 20 generations ago, industrial capitalism erupted on a global scale.

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The Minorca Application - will NWLDC recommend rejection?

06-09-2010 06:13

Our latest Press Release PR 76 "Protesters again face an uphill challenge to convince Councillors to reject the Minorca Application for a second time" has now been published. This press release outlines the content of a three minute speech Steve Leary will make on behalf of MOPG to the Planning Committee of NWLDC on Tuesday 7th September.

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Sheffield Green Film Festival

05-09-2010 20:10

Friends of the Earth Sheffield have organised a month long Green Film Festival starting from October 13. Please feel free to pop down and watch a film and invite your friends along too.

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Permaculture events: Yes we can! Create green homes and neighbourhoods

05-09-2010 17:38

Building on the success of the 'Eat sustainably' workshops run by Leeds Permaculture Network in 2009, the Cooperative is now working with the Permaculture Association to offer day long sessions that will help you find out about creating a greener household and how you can work with others in your community using Transition Town initiatives and permaculture to develop a more eco-friendly neighbourhood.

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Sheffield Free School 8-10/10 Prepare for a future without oil or governments...

04-09-2010 17:27

The Sheffield Social Centre Collective

http://sheffieldsocialcentre.org.uk/ is organising a Free School, "Prepare for a future without oil or governments..." to be held in Sheffield over the weekend of 8th - 10th October 2010.