UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Nuclear Power - the Great Debate
06-05-2011 18:04
Room VIII, Vernon Square Campus of SOAS (please note NOT the main campus), off Penton Rise near Kings Cross station/tube.
Join us in a debate on the proposition: "Nuclear Power has no place in the fight against Climate Change: it is simply a diversion which leads us away from the real answer, renewable energy".
Other Possible Worlds?
05-05-2011 14:12
Workshop :: Medellín :: Colombia :: Recent years have been marked by multiple crises -- of an economic, social, political and environmental nature. It is quite clear that the neoliberal model, based on fossil energy and consumerism, has reached its limits. Against this background it is more than reasonable to consider social and economic alternatives.War on Terror Re-alignment. Part 2.
05-05-2011 11:51
Osama Bin Laden Death Evidence
04-05-2011 14:41
Osama Bin Laden dead...and other political matchsticks!
02-05-2011 09:37
The US President Barack Obama has last night issued a statement claiming US special forces have found and killed the so-called leader of a group the US has long claimed to be called Al Qaida. Al Qaida are claimed by the US to be responsible for the atrocity carried out in New York on September 11th 2001.FUKUSHIMA DRAMA - Are You Safe?
28-04-2011 18:27
Fukushima Fact & Fantasy
28-04-2011 18:09
Chester remembers Chernobyl - 25 years on
26-04-2011 22:58
Anti-nuclear camp / Chernobyl 25th anniversary at Sizewell - pics
26-04-2011 11:42
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net staged a four-day anti-nuclear camp on the beach beside Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, eastern England from 22-25 April 2011. Campers marked the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the world's worst ever nuclear accident, on 26 April 1986, and sent out a clear message: 'No' to nuclear greenwash, 'Yes' to sustainable alternatives. More images here:
http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6 All images Copyright (c) 2011 Stop Nuclear Power Network. They may be reproduced free of charge if credited to Stop Nuclear Power Network. For high resolution versions, please e-mail.
Emergency Demo: Action on Climate Change is not "Red Tape"
20-04-2011 20:10
Urgent Demonstration outside the Department of Business, Skills and Innovation, Victoria Street (Westminster or St. James’s Park tube).UG#544 - Living Arrangements Beyond Nation States
20-04-2011 10:00
UK Coal PLC - It's level of debt keeps growing
19-04-2011 14:16
The Minorca Opencast Protest Group, in it's latest press release, again makes clear the need for a Banker's Guarantee to cover the proposed community benefits in case Leicestershire County Council grant planning permission for an opencast mine on the Minorca site in Leicestershire. This is because the company concerned has slipped even further into debt.Ratcliffe protesters encouraged to appeal
18-04-2011 13:19
The 20 protesters convicted of 'conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass' at the Ratcliffe power station are being invited to appeal because of Mark Kennedy's involvement (link below).Anti-nuclear campaigners set for weekend of seaside action
18-04-2011 11:55
The annual beach camp beside the nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, now into its third year, will have added significance this year due to the unfolding disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, and because it marks 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in the Ukraine. (2)
Flash Mob Photos
17-04-2011 18:55
Couple of photo sets from today are here:Synchronise Watches …
15-04-2011 18:03
Fukushima: Nuclear Mutiny
13-04-2011 20:46
BP Flash Mob
11-04-2011 18:09
Sunday 17 April 2011, 2PM at Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Wind and wave farms could affect Earth's energy balance
11-04-2011 10:48
"Studies] yield maximum estimates in the range of 17–38 TW and are notably less than recent estimates that claim abundant wind power availability. Furthermore, we show with the climate model simulations that the climatic effects at maximum wind power extraction are similar in magnitude to those associated with a doubling of atmospheric CO2. " - Miller, Gans and Kleidon (2011): "Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences"