UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Demonstration against UK Coal at High court
05-06-2013 15:25
Today desperate Coal Company - UK Coal sought to over-rule the community, Durham Council and the Secretary of State’s Inspectors to be allowed to mine over half a million tonnes of coal from rural County Durham.
LAON's April Review of English Opencast Sites
09-05-2013 14:40
This review updates information on planning developments affecting new English Opencast sites. In addition, it has information on the sites that would be affected if UK Mine Holdings / UK Coal Operations were, as recent press stories indicate, to go into administration. In addition it has news on the the land slip at Hatfield Colliery, latest developments over the Helsley Wood Tip and opencast mining on the Canobie Coalfield.UK ready? Fracking Sacrifice Zones in U.S. West
05-05-2013 18:52
Fracking: Sacrifice Zones of the American West. What can the UK expect? Four voices from the Bakken shale lands. Polluting oil & gas extraction impacts in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana & North Dakota. The dark side of the fracking boom.Affirmative: Fracking Awareness North Somerset is go, go, GO!
28-04-2013 16:34
Fracking Awareness North Somerset (F.A.N.S) is a new organisation seeking to mobilize community based resistance against fracking. We aim to build a network of groups all over North Somerset to collectively struggle against the insidious threat posed by fracking to our local communities and landscape.Scottish Coal's Collapse : A Failure of the Planning System
25-04-2013 16:34
LAON's Press Release questions the role the Scottish Planning System has played in this tragic sequence of events. It draws attention to the fact that 18 opencast sites are affected, not just the six often mention in most news items on this story and suggests that some form of public inquiry is needed if trust is to be restored into the Scottish Planning System and lessons learned so that this situation can be avoided in the future.Drax AGM targeted over biomass conversion plans
25-04-2013 12:32
Philippine climate activists expose risks of dirty coal.
24-04-2013 12:06
Scottish Coal's Collapse : The Untold Story
23-04-2013 17:03
On Friday 20/4/13, Scotland's largest producer of surface mined coal, Scottish Coal went into liquidation. LAON's press release suggests that reasons other than those which have dominated news items about this event, lie behind this collapse. This press release aims at putting the record strait. In so doing, it raises questions as to whether large scale opencast mining operations, under present circumstanace will ever be profitable in Scotland again.Burying the Future: Pipelines, Arctic Melt, UK Weather
21-04-2013 19:43
Canadian scientist Paul Beckwith explains how the Arctic warming emergency is changing your weather. First, story of anti-pipeline media warrior, John Bolenbaugh. The leaks, scandals and deaths behind Tar Sands pipelines.Shell to Sea campaigner to speak in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester
19-04-2013 13:02
Local resident and Shell to Sea campaigner Terence Conway will be speaking in Bristol, Leeds & Manchester to give an update on campaign against Shell in Ireland & promote the Rossport Solidarity Camp week of action happening there in June.Earth First Summer Gathering: 7th-11th August 2013
06-04-2013 10:00
This year's the Summer Gathering will be in the Hastings area near the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road campaign. It will run from the evening of Wednesday 7th August and finish on Sunday 11th August.Planning and Opencast Coal: the Bad and the Good News
03-04-2013 13:49
LAON's latest Press Release provides an update on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill Clause 24 plus progress on the Halton Lea Gate Judicial Review. In addition news that a Health Impact Assessment process is to be used to assess the health aspects of the Deanfield Surface Mine Application near Sharston, Wakefield.LAON's Review of English Opencast Site Applications for March 2013
02-04-2013 14:14
This review highlights recent developments affecting new opencast site applications in England. it includes news that the first Health Impact Assessment for a new opencast site in England for 4 years is underway in Wakefield for the Deanfield Site. The Judicial Appeal over the Halton Lea Gate decision makes progress and coal extraction by surface methods could return to Walsall as part of the process of reclaiming and remediating the Phoenix 10 / IMI Coppper Works site.Summer action camp against Shell
31-03-2013 21:00
Whether you've been to Rossport before or this is your first time, this is the week to come.
Check website for updates & more information.
Summer action camp against Shell
28-03-2013 13:17
Whether you've been to Rossport before or this is your first time, this is the week to come.
Check website for updates & more information.
Is Welsh Planning Policy for Coal about to Hit the Buffers?
21-03-2013 12:18
The new Welsh Minister for Housing and Regeneration, Mr Carl Seargent, is about to make a decision on the Varteg Hill Opencast site application. If he decides to uphold the Appeal recommendation arising from a recent Public Inquiry it could set a new precedent for how all other Welsh opencast site applications are decided. It could have even wider repercussions across England and Scotland as well. This press release explains why.LAON's Feb-March 2013 of Welsh Opencast Sites
21-03-2013 09:27
This review carries news items on the state of opencast mine proposals in Wales, especially the latest news about the Varteg and East Pit proposal. It also provides some information about who Miller Argent are, the Company mining at Ffos-y-Fran and who mau be submitting a new opencast proposal for the Nant Llesg site in GwentExtreme Energy Gathering, 27/28th April
17-03-2013 19:26
The Extreme Energy Gathering will bring together diverse campaigns and communities that are resisting extreme energy extraction methods for a weekend of networking, strategising and sharing of skills and knowledge.Dangerous Myths of Fukushima
17-03-2013 17:15
It isn't over. Danger to women, children, wildlife. Selections from symposium "The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident" New York March 11-12 by Helen Caldicott Foundation & Physicians for Social Responsibility. Radio Ecoshock 130320Call For an Open Debate on the Use of Coal
15-03-2013 15:43
Yesterday, the Government announced that it was to develop a short to medium term strategy for coal in light of the closure of Daw Mill. In it's 22nd Press Release, The Loose Anti Opencast Network calls for widening this discussion to include groups affected by the impact of opencast mining