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Anti Shell, Greenwash Flash MOB

29-02-2012 22:26

Anti Shell/Greenwash action tomorrow evening 1st March 5pm

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Free the Climate Scientists!

29-02-2012 18:51

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Dr. John Mashey investigates the right-wing billionaires & corporations who pay alleged "charities", bloggers, and old weathermen to deny climate science. Then Canadian journalist Margaret Munro on government muzzling scientists, plus an update from Union of Concerned Scientists Francesca Grifo on science freedom in U.S.

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Hinkley Barnstormers need you!!

24-02-2012 17:28

Image credit: D. Viesnik
Apparently, the Occupy Hinkley Barnstormers could be evicted as soon as next Tuesday, after which EDF Energy and its contractors could begin their massive land trash in earnest at any time!!

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Woman Covered in Oil at Waitrose in Protest over Shell

23-02-2012 16:11

A Climate Rush campaigner dressed in an intricate shell themed dress has had oil poured over her in protest against the partnership between Waitrose and Shell that has seen two Waitrose stores open on Shell forecourts as well as joint marketing campaigns.

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Hinkley C ~ Site Occupation

21-02-2012 19:08

Hinkley C ~ Site Occupation
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This film gives an account of the first few days of the occupation of Langborough Farm on the site of one of the proposed 'new wave' of Nuclear Reactors, at ...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfW-Kv6IWEI&feature=share



 http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/

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EDF Energy seeks high court injunction against protestors

20-02-2012 00:34

Credit: D. Viesnik / Stop New Nuclear
Nuclear energy company seeks high court injunction against protestors

For immediate release Feb 18th

Nuclear energy company EDF today served papers on activists occupying a farm on the proposed site for nuclear new build at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The papers, served by Squire Sanders of London, are applying for possession of the premises and, in an unprecedented move, an injunction against all future protests at this site: this includes any protests by other local residents, such as campaign group Stop Hinkley.

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Fracking Survey Plane in the skies over the North Coast

19-02-2012 23:54

The prospect of fracking in the North Coast comes one step closer. Join the No To Fracking campaign!

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Anti-nuclear protesters occupy Hinkley Point

19-02-2012 14:38

A barn has been squatted in the middle of the proposed Hinkley Point C development site. Activists are reclaiming the land for wildlife and future generations before preparatory works trash this environmentally sensitive site and turn it into the biggest building site in Europe.

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Hinkley Point Barnstormers - Occupiers aim to stop EDF land trash

16-02-2012 15:10

Credit: D. Viesnik / Stop New Nuclear
"shannonsmy23" writes:

"This film gives an account of the first few days of the occupation of Langborough Farm on the site of one of the proposed 'new wave' of Nuclear Reactors, at Hinkley point in Somerset. The activists took occupancy in the early hours of Sunday the 12th of February and are settling in to their new home and community."

Check out this great vid of the opening days of the occupation:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfW-Kv6IWEI

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Farmhouse squatted to defend land from EDF Energy's bulldozers

14-02-2012 15:09

Activists needed to defend squatted farmhouse at nuclear power plant

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Directions to the new camp at Hinkley Point power station

13-02-2012 15:15

Directions to new Hinkley camp
Directions to the new camp at Hinkley Point power station

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Fracking - The Rest of the Story

08-02-2012 19:58

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As fracking envelops the UK - watch the American experience. "Gasland" director Josh Fox arrested at U.S. Congress Fracking Hearing. Speakers Rep Harris (R-MD), Rep Miller (D-NC), Kathleen Sgamma (Industry), John Fenton (well poisoned, Pavillion Wyoming), Theo Colborne (air pollution health impacts of fracking). Interview with EPA whistle-blower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, inspiration for the No Fear Act.

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Troubled Over Bridgwater

07-02-2012 17:27

Three anti-nuclear activists have occupied trees at the site of a proposed nuclear power station near Bridgwater in Somerset

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Report of the Fuel Poverty Action Warm-Ups Weekend across the UK

05-02-2012 20:03

Friday 27th – Monday 30th January saw hundreds of people in cities across the country come out of their cold homes to Warm-up together at the buildings and offices that house those responsible for fuel poverty. People warmed-up at the offices of the energy companies raking in record profits from the thousands of people in the UK that die from fuel poverty, and the hundreds of thousands worldwide that die from climate change. The weekend also saw Warm-ups at local council offices and town halls, which house the local governments that are failing to take action to rectify the shameful state of the UK’s housing and insulation, and are implementing welfare cuts that are making the bills bite even harder this Winter, leaving millions with a choice between heating and eating.

The Warm-ups are just the beginning. Fuel Poverty Action will be continuing to challenge the Big Six’s monopoly and the government’s complicity, and keeping up the push for an energy system that works for people’s needs, not corporate greed. Plans are already afoot for a day of mass action against the Big Six in May. If you'd like to be involved in planning for this, then come to the planning meeting in Oxford on Saturday February 18th. (Turl St Kitchen (upstairs), 16-17 Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DH, 10am – 4pm).

For more information and updates about Fuel Poverty Action, check our website ( fuelpovertyaction.wordpress.com), follow us on Twitter @FuelPovAction and find us on Facebook ( http://on.fb.me/v8pXT0).

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Occupy Oil

05-02-2012 14:11

Occupy Oil first action of 2012 is to shut down Shell Petrol Stations around London and further afield. Register with the action planned for the 8th of Feb by texting 07752969589

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Forever Planting (for Peak Oil & Climate Change)

01-02-2012 05:08

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How will we grow food as oil dwindles, and climate changes? Wes Jackson of the Land Institute speech at ASPO 2011 finds a way. Plus critique of soil carbon solutions and biochar by Australian scientist Dr. Michael Raupach of CSIRO.

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Fuel protesters storm British Gas headquarters

30-01-2012 10:46

A group of activists has successfully evaded security and got inside the headquarters of British Gas.

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Nuclear energy fat cats EDF Energy targeted for fuel poverty days of action

28-01-2012 09:03

Anti-nuclear campaign group Boycott EDF targeted the UK headquarters of EDF Energy in central London this Friday at lunchtime as part of the national days of action called by the Climate Justice Collective’s Fuel Poverty Action campaign.

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Do you want to help stop the world’s most destructive project?

27-01-2012 17:15

UK Tar Sands Network is looking for a volunteer to join our small Oxford-based team. You would help us with a range of activities, including organising protests and campaign events, keeping our website and social media up to date, public education, outreach and network-building, and some day-to-day administrative tasks that help keep the show on the road.

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Oil to Occupy: The Restless West Coast

25-01-2012 06:25

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 http://bit.ly/waNOYN "Oil Free Coast" 3 speakers against Tar Sands pipelines and tankers in Canada, including First Nations. Then on-scene audio from Occupy Wall St West in San Francisco Jan 20th. Awaiting arrest, and crowd microphones against corporate takeover.