13-09-2010 16:35
The Stop Nuclear network is a grassroots network of groups and individuals taking action against nuclear power and its expansion and supporting sustainable alternatives.
Date for your diaries:
Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October, Bristol
Meet people from your region that are taking action, make plans together and build solidarity with people who live next door to Hinkley.
Stop Nuclear Power gathering Bristol 23rd Oct
The Stop Nuclear network is a grassroots network of groups and individuals taking action against nuclear power and its expansion and supporting sustainable alternatives. Date for your diaries:
Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October, Bristol
Meet people from your region that are taking action, make plans together and build solidarity with people who live next door to Hinkley.
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09-09-2010 14:16
Pack your buckets and spades for a day out to Portalnd in Dorset. There will be a coach leaving Bristol on Saturday 25th September at 10.00am for a march, rally, workshops followed by live music and food. There is another coach leaving London at 9.00 am.
National Demonstration Against Agrofuels
Pack your buckets and spades for a day out to Portalnd in Dorset. There will be a coach leaving Bristol on Saturday 25th September at 10.00am for a march, rally, workshops followed by live music and food. There is another coach leaving London at 9.00 am. [Full Story ]
12-08-2010 19:11
Southcoast Climate Camp has committed to hiring the Big Lemon Bus to travel to Climate Camp 2010 in Edinburgh. Unfortunately many people can't make this trip and we have 18 seats that need to filled.
Cheap as Minibus and Veggie-oil coaches going to Edinburgh Climate Camp/Fring
Southcoast Climate Camp has committed to hiring the Big Lemon Bus to travel to Climate Camp 2010 in Edinburgh. Unfortunately many people can't make this trip and we have 18 seats that need to filled. [Full Story | 3 comments ]
05-08-2010 14:29
Yesterday morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms.
Shell drilling stopped for 5 hours – as Beat the Boreholes continues
Yesterday morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms.
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27-07-2010 12:46
The community campaign against Shell's work in the estuary is going strong with regular actions happening. Last week locals viewed the borehole-drilling rigs during a walk on the strands of the estuary at low tide. Shell moved the rigs yesterday but were slowed down by kayaker action.
Beat the Boreholes continues!!
The community campaign against Shell's work in the estuary is going strong with regular actions happening. Last week locals viewed the borehole-drilling rigs during a walk on the strands of the estuary at low tide. Shell moved the rigs yesterday but were slowed down by kayaker action. [Full Story ]
10-06-2010 16:24
Be part of Brighton's new solar power station
17th June sees the initiation of a great new project in Brighton - the UK's first community-owned solar power station. The £350,000 scheme will be run as a co-operative, meaning that every shareholder has an equal say in management, whether you have a few thousand pounds to invest or just fifty quid.[Full Story | 3 comments ]
27-04-2010 10:06
MASS ACTION CALL OUT
• When: Saturday, 15th May
• Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus
• Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
» Oxford Circus meeting point map –
http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap
» Facebook event – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112331352138187
» IMC UK calendar event – http://www.protest.net/imcuk/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1702679
Party At The Pumps Part 2... This Time It's SHELL!
MASS ACTION CALL OUT • When: Saturday, 15th May
• Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus
• Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
» Oxford Circus meeting point map –
http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap » Facebook event –
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112331352138187 » IMC UK calendar event –
http://www.protest.net/imcuk/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1702679 [Full Story | 3 comments ]
15-04-2010 10:43
about the company’s involvement in tar sands, the increasingly
controversial oil extraction industry.
'Activists Target BP’s Investment in Tar Sands with Roof Occupation'
Climate Campaigners have occupied the Roof of a BP garage today in protestabout the company’s involvement in tar sands, the increasingly
controversial oil extraction industry.
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20-03-2010 01:17
This was a 'Workers Climate Action' Blade Blockade action in support of and in solidarity with the Vestas workers who occupied their offices last year after losing their jobs.
Vestas support action - court update
March 16th - Court update from WCA / Vestas crane action that took place last SeptemberThis was a 'Workers Climate Action' Blade Blockade action in support of and in solidarity with the Vestas workers who occupied their offices last year after losing their jobs.
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07-02-2010 13:14
Public meeting re Dungeness C possibility
A public meeting has been called in the town of Lydd, Romney Marsh, Kent to 'discuss' to re-instatement of plans for a third nuclear station- Dungeness C on the site.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
20-11-2009 08:31
Vestas Event tomorrow (sat): Push the Green Button-the Revolution is ON!
The Vestas Occupation and continuing campaign caught the imagination of many labour and environmental activists. With Copenhagen coming up, the campaign is bringing together it's disparate elements... Gather in St James Square, Newport, Isle of Wight with friends, colleagues & family. Meet like-minds, swap ideas, and forge new connections for the challenges ahead. At 12 noon ex-Vestas workers who occupied their factory in July, lead the countdown and PUSH THE GREEN BUTTON as we declare the REVOLUTION... ON![Full Story ]
12-10-2009 17:05
Vestas Wind shares decline 10/10/2009
Shares of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines with facilities in Colorado, dropped to the lowest since April in Copenhagen after Svenska Handelsbanken AB cut its recommendation to "reduce" from "accumulate."[Full Story | 2 comments ]
12-10-2009 13:00
Is climate action at a tipping point?
We’ve seen victory after victory this week and that’s just the major iconic battles. Not only have Eon and BAA thrown in the towel on Kingsnorth and Heathrows third runway, but also the rejection of the proposed agrofuels power stations Portland, Dorset and in Southall, Ealing last month.[Full Story | 7 comments ]
11-10-2009 18:00
continuing plans to take control of a second power station this weekend.
Climate Activists Cheer 'Two Down, One To Go', As Great Climate Swoop Looms
Climate activists have been celebrating a double victory this week, whilecontinuing plans to take control of a second power station this weekend.
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09-10-2009 18:34
Green Leader – “I didn’t think it would be so much fun!” Vestas campaigners held a working lunch with Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP, at the Magic Roundabout in Newport, Isle of Wight today. Photograph courtesy of Skygig.
Will to Win- Vestas Update - Caroline Lucas meets workers. winds of change!
Green Leader – “I didn’t think it would be so much fun!” Vestas campaigners held a working lunch with Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP, at the Magic Roundabout in Newport, Isle of Wight today. Photograph courtesy of Skygig.
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08-10-2009 00:07
Surpise announcement - EON fucked off!
Tonight the German energy giant Eon issued a statement which effectively takes them out of the picture for the governments gift of one billion pounds of public money to build a new coal-fired power station with the controversial carbon capture and storage technology, and means that (for now at least) the aging Kingsnorth power station will not be replaced.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
07-10-2009 14:01
Vestas Camp update: Green Leader to take Vestas Fight to Europe
Green Party Leader, the Isle of Wight’s Green MEP, and prospective parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP is to visit the Vestas Wind Turbine Blade factory on the IOW on Friday (9TH October). From 11.30 am – 1.30 pm she will be present at the ‘Magic Roundabout’ Solidarity/Protest Camp, St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, IOW. Dr Lucas has arranged to share lunch with the workers and their supporters, to listen and learn more about how she can help the campaign(1). (PHOTO OPPORTUNITY)[Full Story | 1 addition ]
06-10-2009 11:48
'Failure is not an option' for Vestas. It ain't for us either.
'Failure is not an option' for Vestas, according to their Business Strategy. It's not an option for the campaign to save the Newport, Isle of Wight factory either. We have the 'Will to win' that Vestas' CEO claims Vestas' have. The factory will reopen. Wind Turbine Blades will be produced in the UK, for the UK. Workers will be unionised. You never know, the factory might even be a workers' coop.[Full Story ]
05-10-2009 09:44
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VWS.CO
Investors in Vestas? Sell your shares...
Vestas claim they are 'Number 1. in Modern Energy', and indeed are responsible for developing and installing much of the world's wind/renewable energy. However, they've shown their true colours (not so 'green' after all) this summer - through closing their St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight factory, leading to the loss of 600 jobs. Unions were banned & working conditions deteriorating prior to closure, & 11 workers who occupied the factory to save it have been paid no redundancy. There will be a long-term campaign as a result. Will it effect Vestas Share Price? Watch This Space: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VWS.CO
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02-10-2009 12:14
Vestas Management promote Community Control
Leafing through company reports is usually a thankless and dull task. No so with Vestas - all sorts of fascinating opinion. Here's to a community buy out of the St. Corss Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight factory by ex-workers, locals, Climate Campers, Bicycologists, Climate Rushers, Workers Liberty, SWP & SP, Green Party, with financial support from Ecotricity and others shall we?[Full Story ]