UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Coal and the Risks Faced by Planning Authorities
03-03-2013 13:59
This press release recounts the problems beseting the UK Coal Indusrty such as the fire at Daw Mill, the decline in the demand for coal for power generation purposes, lack of willingness to invest in coal, downward pressure on coal prices, pollution caused by coal being responsible fro premature deaths. Yet despite all this the Government wants to make it easier to dig it up!! See what you can do at this late stage to stop this plan it its tracks!!LAON's February Review of English Opencast Sites
03-03-2013 11:03
This review details the latest development on known actual and potential opencast sites in England, plus providing additional information on Air quality Issues and Opencast Mining, the Welsh Varteg Petition, Derelict and Unrestored English Sites and news affecting Hargreaves Services and UK Coal.How Will We Power the Future?
01-03-2013 00:19
In-depth interview with Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin on his book "Powering the Future: How We Will Eventually Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow." Dr. Rose M. Cory's new science on positive feedback loop discovered in the melting Arctic. Plus song "No Such Thing As Waste" by Australia's Formidable Vegetable Sound System. Radio Ecoshock 130227Operation Disclosure: 4 March - 9 April
26-02-2013 13:51
Direct Action used by blockaders in New South Wales, Australia
18-02-2013 12:05
Leafleting against E-On
15-02-2013 11:06
Stop G8 Notts hit the streets of Nottingham yesterday distributing a leaflet that made connecting the everyday reality of poverty in the city, where people are forced to choose between eating or staying warm to the capitalist spectacle of the G8 summit taking place later this year.Doors locked at E-on Open House
15-02-2013 10:55
Last night the doors to the Nottingham E-on Open House on Lister Gate were d-locked shut in solidarity with anyone struggling to stay warm this winter.Ten Days in Manchester - Demos, Conferences, Occupations
10-02-2013 17:05
Does the UK Need nealy 50 New Opencast Mines?
05-02-2013 09:58
The 20th LAON press release highlights a recent estimate that 47 new sites for opencast or the surface mining of coal are in the planning pipeline, 15 in England, 25 in Scotland and 7 in Wales. At the same time UK Coal Mining acknowledges that the demand for coal is going to drop significantly - hence the title of the press releaseJapanese Sasago Syndrome & Dutch Dam Marker as Evidences of Hot Expanding Earth
18-01-2013 21:41
Japanese Sasago Syndrome, Dutch Dam Marker and African Infernal Overflow as Evidences of Hot Expanding Earth Theory [Global Warming, Geophysics and Cosmology] // A good few hundreds unfailing bolts were find torn loose in almost one geophysical and technical moment of lithospheric stretching in Japanese tunnel “Sasago” in 2012. It means that long dams in Holland can one near day be toppled in the water!vedanta protest in london today - reports and pics
11-01-2013 22:46
Letter of solidarity with tree-occupations against road-buildings
10-01-2013 13:05
PR 19 '2013- A Crunch Year for Coal and the UK Coal Industry
01-01-2013 13:19
This press release explains why this is an important year for the UK Coal Industry. The industry awaits the outcome of decisions that have to be made this year by Generating Companies, on whether they will adapt their coal firing power stations to meet new European Pollution Standards. If they do not, the use of coal for power generation could fall from over 41m in 2011 to 7m in 2023, thus significantly reducing the demand for opencast coal, if the UK Coal industry can survive that long.December 2012 Review of New UK Opencast Sites
01-01-2013 10:26
This edition of the review shows that 26 new sites are under consideration, 13 in England, 7 in Wales and 6 in Scotland. It also has information on what the implications of restructuring of UK Coal plc may mean for its surface mine operations, the implications of trying to rescue ATH Resources, the Hesley Wood Tip planning meeting and the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, Clause 21 - now clause 23.Growth and Infrastructure Threat Back-As Clause 23
16-12-2012 15:15
Tomorrow Parliament debates the Growth and Infrastructure Bill again at the Report stage. Clause 21 is still there, unammended, but now as Clause 23. LAON's PR 18 outlines why we still oppose this clause in the Bill.and urges you to write to your MP asking them to support the proposed ammendents to this Bill either tomorrow or before the 3rd ReadingHelp with planning appeal signatures needed for sustainable smallholding
11-12-2012 21:52
My parents are appealing against a rejection for planning permission. They live on 5 acres of land near Baydon, Berkshire on a mobile home (hence the reason for rejection). They have built a sustainable smallholding, which is producing eggs and meat for the local community.Hambacher Forst: Police destroys almost all the stuff from the forest occupation
06-12-2012 13:22
Yesterday activists from the evicted forest occupation gathered for the 4th time in front of the police station to reclaim their stuff which was left in the forest during the eviction.They destroyed all of this because in their view it was „rubbish“. While the police is saying that they have to save the private property of RWE (the energy company that owns the forest), they give a damn about other property like ours. We need this stuff for the cold winter time and sure they knew this. This is another example for the obiediance of the police to RWE. They ensure the profits of a greedy few against the needs of most of the people which is land, warm clothes, sleeping-bags in winter and a planet to live on. RWE is destroying all of this.
Does the Energy Bill Herald An End To Opencast Mining?
05-12-2012 15:29
LAON's 17th Press Release analyses what the effect of implementing the 2012 Energy Bill will be on the UK Surface Mine Coal Industry. The prognosis is that it faces medium to long term decline. As a consequence, over time, the strength of the current 'Need for Coal' arguments will slowly weaken. However, it may not come soon enough to prevent two new 9 and 10m tonne surface mines from being developed, one in Scotland and the other in Wales.Tory Boycott of Renewables Hampshire.
04-12-2012 22:43
Hants Tories fulfilling the Dail Mail doctrine.
