UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
Crash on Demand - Holmgren and Foss
02-02-2014 18:53
Do we need to break the system to save the climate? Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren says "yes", in rare radio interview. Then Nicole Foss replies. Plus Alex's climate music.Frack Free February
22-01-2014 20:48
Frack Free February is a Month of Action in Somerset with public meetings, talks, stalls, workshops, actions and more all raising awareness about the threats to our communities and the bigger picture of extreme energy.Plea to Make Coal a 'Special Case'
13-01-2014 08:18
The Loose Anti Opencast Network, along with CPRE, FoE Scotland, the Scottish Opencast Communities Alliance and the London Mining Network are launching a campaign today to change the rules governing the Opencast Mining Industry in the UK. This is because Coal is being phased out of the UK's Energy Mix and we don't want to be left with a heritage of derelict opencast sites such as blight large areas of Scotland, where 35 sites lie abandoned.A future without fracking?
08-01-2014 19:15
Shale gas and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) have been hitting the headlines for months, surrounded by debate on controversial extraction methods. But if the future of fracking is uncertain, what are the alternatives for a secure energy future?Global Freezing And Baking: How To End The Extremes
08-01-2014 17:34
44 ways to help trees reforest the earth and prevent freezing, baking, drought, famine,etc.
Anti-Fracking Protesters deny attacking a Police Helicopter
07-01-2014 19:07
The anti-fracking protest camp at Barton Moss in Manchester was yesterday (06/01/2014) overun by Greater Manchester police who have alleged that just after midnight (04/01/2014) a flare was fired at or into the path of a police helicopter landing at nearby Barton Aerodrome. Protesters reject the claim that a flare was fired from the protest site...No loan guarantees for deforestation and pollution!
06-01-2014 16:28
Fracking horrors coming to the UK
05-01-2014 18:42
True stories from Walter Brasch, author of"Fracking Pennsylvania". An update from Friends of Earth UK campaigner Helen Rimmer as government makes new "dash for (fracked) gas". With clips from American biologist/activist Sandra Steingraber. Say goodbye to peaceful English and Scottish countryside and towns.Dissident Island Radio - 13 December 2013 - Episode 131 - Safe city cycling
15-12-2013 14:42
Listen to the last D*I Radio show for 2013...London protest at Npower over energy profits and fuel poverty
26-11-2013 23:09
RWE Fuck Off & Die! [Lignite/Brown Coal Protest] (Germany)
10-10-2013 16:19
Yesterday (Wed, 09.Oct.2013) energy giant RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG) used the bailiffs of the system to break down the protective appliances in the squatted HAMBACH FOREST - we suspect an eviction to be imminent!This is a call out to everyone interested: Join the resistance in the Rhineland - you anarchists, eco-activists, wrong-doers, revolutionaries and everyone else, join the struggle - NOW!
KFC Boycott And Chicken Disease Cause Owner Profits To Drop 70%
10-10-2013 14:33
The Grandparents strike again
08-10-2013 10:54
OAPs occupy the Bristol RBS offices in protest at the banks ongoing investment in the fossil fuel industry.Fracking off Cuadrilla
06-10-2013 23:36
This seems to have gone unreported here. Might be of interest to some...September London Critical Mass Bike Ride - report n pics
28-09-2013 17:32
Extreme Rain & Climate Collapse
22-09-2013 05:58
Remember the UK floods, plus Germany and Eastern Europe? Now extreme rainfall events have hit Asia and the U.S. In Colorado, one year's worth of rain fell in 24 hours. Carolyn Baker reports from Boulder. Could these repeated hits take down the economy world-wide? Radio Ecoshock 130925Fracking, Coal and Planning: The Story Of Westfield
14-09-2013 17:35
Ed Davey the Sec of State for Energy and Climate Change has argued that with a robust regulatory and planning system there will not be environmental damage from Fracking. Here, this view is challenged, by using an example of environmental damage caused by opencast mining at the Westfield site in Fife. This example demonstrates how impotent the planning system is when systems of control break downThis press release from The Loose Anti Opencast Network, about what is currently happening in Scotland, where company bankruptcies have left up to 25 un-restored opencast mines, including Westfield, the subject of a recently published LAON report
LCC ‘Space for Cycling’ protest ride attracts 1000s – report & pic
02-09-2013 22:39
Aberthaw Power Station Tree Felling for Biomass?
02-09-2013 19:36
28 Days Later: Please spread far and wide
29-08-2013 22:57
