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Text Italian company ICOP applying for tunnel tender
30-06-2010 13:38

Text Proposed Law would make Minorca type applications History.
29-06-2010 19:52

Text united utilities /rrs /this is the incinerator companies record
23-06-2010 22:34 | 1 comment(s)

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23-06-2010 21:55

Text Chairperson sympathises with Minorca Petitioners
18-06-2010 12:18

Text Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk - More on the Minorca Petition
15-06-2010 19:21

Text UK arrests & raids, possibly climate action related
27-05-2010 21:23 | 5 comment(s)

Image Critical Mass - next Friday!
18-05-2010 17:34 | 1 comment(s)

Text Our new MP is the first to sign our petition urging a decision on UK Coal's .
16-05-2010 20:05

Text Dissident Island Radio - 7 May 2010 broadcast - check it out!
14-05-2010 15:03

Text Leicestershire County Council: Please make a Decision!!
14-05-2010 05:39

Text A Year Ago Today
13-04-2010 12:13 | 5 comment(s)

Image Earth First! Summer Gathering
12-04-2010 23:59 | 2 comment(s)

Image Meeting for radical climate action and analysis - Tuesday 16th March
11-03-2010 15:05

Text second 'open day' at the earth centre - 2 months till take over
08-03-2010 14:28 | 4 comment(s)

Image Radical Climate Action and Discussion Group Meeting, Sumac, Tuesday evening
16-02-2010 12:43 | 1 comment(s)

Image Nottingham climate action meeting
27-01-2010 18:26 | 2 comment(s)

Image East Midlands Vegan Festival,
08-12-2009 18:11

Image Campaiging cyclists on the road from Cambrige to London
05-12-2009 06:52

Text Buy-Nothing-Day Lincoln
23-11-2009 22:40

Text Free Fruit Trees for Forest Fields
16-11-2009 14:47 | 2 comment(s)

Image Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 3
16-11-2009 13:27 | 2 comment(s)

Image Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 2
16-11-2009 13:20 | 11 comment(s)

Image Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 1
16-11-2009 13:12 | 5 comment(s)

Image 15 - 17 January 2010: Peace News Winter Gathering
11-11-2009 11:54

Image How Can We Make Copenhagen Work? - Discussion 12th November
06-11-2009 09:33

Image Veggies News & Events, inc Lincoln Vegan Fair & ARC Meeting
05-11-2009 00:10

Text Nottingham plans for COP 15
04-11-2009 21:31 | 1 comment(s)

Text 26/10/09: A day to remember in the fight against coal
30-10-2009 20:35 | 3 comment(s)

Text protest march against incinerators being built in uk .any groups interested
30-10-2009 13:24 | 3 comment(s)

Text Activists Interrupt Coal Supply Destined for Ratcliffe-on-Soar
26-10-2009 11:08 | 3 comment(s)

Text 'the Age of Stupid'
23-10-2009 09:01 | 1 comment(s)

Text reclaim the earth centre walkabout
19-10-2009 09:07 | 1 comment(s)

Text Swoop - Police release helicopter videos
18-10-2009 13:30 | 6 comment(s)

Text Police chief: arrest numbers not as high as we said
18-10-2009 11:29 | 4 comment(s)

Text The Great Climate Swoop: Day One
17-10-2009 23:38 | 6 comment(s)

Image Fences Down East side Ratcliffe - Follow Climate Swoop Action here
17-10-2009 12:00 | 16 comment(s)

Text Climate rush: peoples being pulled over by filth on route.
16-10-2009 20:41 | 4 comment(s)

Audio Notts police probe for information about the swoop
15-10-2009 17:44 | 7 comment(s)

Text Swoop on Eon two days early
15-10-2009 17:18

Image handy Ratcliffe map for the weekend
15-10-2009 13:45

Text meeting - reclaim the earth centre
15-10-2009 09:17 | 1 comment(s)

Image Ratcliffe Panorama
14-10-2009 22:27

Text Ratcliffe 114 - one more charged, now 25
13-10-2009 23:33 | 1 comment(s)

Image Change Your Diet, Save the Climate
13-10-2009 01:15 | 20 comment(s)

Text Climate Activists Cheer 'Two Down, One To Go', As Great Climate Swoop Looms
11-10-2009 18:00 | 2 comment(s)

Text distribute - reclaim the earth centre
10-10-2009 00:09 | 1 comment(s)

Image Defenders of the Earth Centre!
09-10-2009 16:38

Image The Great Climate Swoop - 10 days to go!
08-10-2009 19:25 | 5 comment(s)

Text Ratcliffe Protestors at Court - Callout for support
07-10-2009 14:16

Text Get your Swoop On!
05-10-2009 10:29 | 1 comment(s)

Text Veggies 25th Anniversary Weekend!
02-10-2009 23:58

Image Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival
30-09-2009 10:26 | 1 comment(s)

Text Notts police in eco protest training with MoD
26-09-2009 08:59

Text Is Greenpeace sabotaging the ‘Great Climate Swoop’?
22-09-2009 11:40 | 8 comment(s)

Image Beware, Climate Change 'Flashmob' in the Market Square, Nottingham
21-09-2009 23:13

Text Ratcliffe on Soar installing new fences
17-09-2009 19:03 | 2 comment(s)

Text WAKE UP!" Alarm call for action on Climate Change
16-09-2009 03:50

Text Australian activists breach fence of power plant - now lets shut down Ratcliffe!
14-09-2009 11:46 | 1 comment(s)

Image Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival
13-09-2009 12:23

Image Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant 2 [Food for the Future]
30-08-2009 20:23

Image Nottingham Vestas Solidarity Rally in Market Square
12-08-2009 22:59 | 2 comment(s)

Image Solidarity Rally in Support of Vestas Workers - Wednesday 10th August
10-08-2009 21:54 | 2 comment(s)

Text Climate Camp - Cycle To The City!
08-08-2009 18:57

Text Planning application for open cast coal mine in Leicester is submitted
08-07-2009 14:19

Text Notts 114 - 67 cases dropped
06-07-2009 12:02 | 1 comment(s)

Image Airport expansion halted!
27-06-2009 19:48 | 2 comment(s)

Image Indymedia, Climate Camp, Veggies at Glastonbury
21-06-2009 20:21 | 2 comment(s)

Text REMINDER: Police Accountablility Demo
21-06-2009 14:05 | 4 comment(s)

Text Demand Police Accountability: End the harassment of public protests
10-06-2009 12:57 | 4 comment(s)

Image Police spent £700.000 on climate action bust operation
02-06-2009 12:21 | 8 comment(s)

Image cyclemax meet alvaston neighbourhood comitte in secret / burning plastic plant
01-06-2009 22:43

Image No to New Coal in the North East
29-05-2009 09:39 | 2 comment(s)

Image Climate Chaos 7.30pm Thurs 4 June
28-05-2009 08:09

Image Raynesway Peace Camp
22-05-2009 22:32 | 1 comment(s)

Image Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant [Food for the Future]
19-05-2009 00:52 | 1 comment(s)

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17-05-2009 20:57 | 1 comment(s)

Image National Vegetarian Week - Nottingham
17-05-2009 13:25 | 1 comment(s)

Text Programme for Veggie Pride UK
14-05-2009 18:41 | 1 comment(s)

Image Age of Stupid - Nottingham Indie Screening
13-05-2009 00:31 | 1 comment(s)

Text Live bands & performers at Veggie Pride UK
05-05-2009 01:55

Image Nottingham's April Critical Mass + Coal Caravan 2
29-04-2009 00:44

Image Nottingham's April Critical Mass + Coal Caravan 1
29-04-2009 00:40

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26-04-2009 21:45 | 2 comment(s)

Image Critical Mass! Nottingham pictures...
24-04-2009 19:41 | 9 comment(s)

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22-04-2009 08:34 | 2 comment(s)

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21-04-2009 15:36 | 1 comment(s)

Text Statement of solidarity with the Nottingham 114
19-04-2009 09:53 | 1 comment(s)

Image Free Vegan Food Sample Stall
18-04-2009 17:22 | 2 comment(s)

Text Climate Action 114 Media Blog
18-04-2009 00:10 | 1 comment(s)

Image Dissident Island Radio Show - Tonight!! 9pm
17-04-2009 16:25

Text A Conspiracy too far?
16-04-2009 14:46 | 10 comment(s)

Text Solidarity for the Coal Conspiracy 114
16-04-2009 13:33 | 10 comment(s)

Text Young people tackle climate change in Nottingham
16-04-2009 10:42 | 1 comment(s)

Text Bristol Rising Tide and Westside Statement of Solidarity for the RATCLIFFE 114
15-04-2009 20:34 | 1 comment(s)

Image Mass Arrest of 114 Climate Activists in Raid in Nottingham The pictures 2
14-04-2009 15:37 | 7 comment(s)

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14-04-2009 15:30

Text Mass arrests for thought crime
14-04-2009 10:51

Text Nottingham's Climate Criminals
13-04-2009 13:55

Text 100+ people arrested in Notts for conspiracy this morning
13-04-2009 07:55 | 9 comment(s)

Text Hundred held over 'power protest'
13-04-2009 07:40

Text Climate Protest Busted!?
13-04-2009 07:40 | 16 comment(s)

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08-04-2009 22:53 | 2 comment(s)

Text Storming the Banks
02-04-2009 21:28 | 6 comment(s)

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28-03-2009 02:30 | 1 comment(s)

Image Climate Camp and Meltdown to Halt G20!
20-03-2009 18:11 | 2 comment(s)

Text Great films at the Great Green Film Festival
15-03-2009 22:07

Text Eastcroft, the end of the campaign?
08-03-2009 23:16

Image Digger diving back in fashion! Work stopped at Shipley Open Cast Coal Mine Site
26-02-2009 14:52 | 2 comment(s)

Text Staythorpe Power Station Demonstration‏
25-02-2009 11:41 | 2 comment(s)

Text A453 Widening consultation
24-02-2009 13:53 | 2 comment(s)

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19-02-2009 21:50 | 4 comment(s)

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29-01-2009 16:51 | 1 comment(s)

Audio E-on Nottingham 'Fossil Fools' protest: prosecution offers no evidence
15-01-2009 13:04

Text City Council adopt peak oil
15-12-2008 14:07 | 5 comment(s)

Image East Midlands Vegan Festival
11-12-2008 00:10 | 1 comment(s)

Image Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station Still Steams Ahead
05-12-2008 23:36 | 2 comment(s)

Image Nottingham's part of 48 hours of nationwide action against E.ON
30-11-2008 22:49 | 6 comment(s)

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28-11-2008 12:09 | 1 comment(s)

Image Tell E.ON to f off! - Protest
24-11-2008 13:31 | 4 comment(s)

Nottinghamshire Climate Chaos Newswire Archive >>

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Villagers keep up pressure against Minorca mine

12-06-2010 22:22 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire

No Open Cast Coal Mining !

A local campaign group is fighting UK Coal's plans for an opencast mine near Measham in North West Leicestershire. The Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) oppose the company's plans for a mile long mine and the extraction of 1.25m tonnes of coal over 4 1/2 years.

UK Coal are already failing to meet requirements to restore a site in nearby Ashby de la Zouch to agricultural land and MOPG fear that this will happen again.

It is thought that coal mined at Minorca would be used to fuel Ratcliffe on Soar power station in Nottinghamshire. The mined coal would fuel the power station for only 65 days.

Newswire: UK Coal to gain unwelcome publicity at a Leicestershire County Council meeting | 400 have now signed the Minorca Petition | Pensioners to deliver message about Minorca | Leicestershire County Council: Please make a Decision!!

Previous features: Nottingham is not stupid | Protests continue at Shipley open cast site | Coal On Hold - Derbyshire Coal Mine Site Occupied | New Old Coal for Notts

Links: Minorca Opencast Protest Group | Campaign resources | Notts Against New Coal

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Notts Pension Fund linked to tar sands extraction

08-05-2010 20:58 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

C6. Graphical Reality

The pension fund run by Notts CC and including several other major employers in the region invests in BP. As supplies of easily obtainable oil dwindle, companies are investing in more high risk methods of getting oil. One of these is tar sands in Canada.

Notts CC pension scheme has admitted it invests in BP. John Pearson, the Investments Manager has admitted as much in an email to a member of its pension scheme. Nottinghamshire CC is part of a scheme called Nottinghamshire Pension Funds (NPF) and other contributing employers include Nottingham City Council, all the district and borough councils, the police and Nottingham Trent University.

BP is on the point of making a big decision – whether to invest in the tar sands in tar sands in the Athabasca region of Alberta in Canada. Campaigners have been mobilising to ensure they do not do this.

Newswire: Notts County Council Pension Fund invests in BP

National Feature: Anti-Tar Sands Protests Gather Momentum

Links: Fair Pensions: Tar Sands | No Tar Sands | Tar Sands in Focus | Indymedia UK tar sands topic page

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Climate activists swoop on Ratcliffe

17-10-2009 11:19 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

Around one thousand climate activists have been attempting to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station in Nottinghamshire, taking direct action with repeated breaches of the security fencing. [Pics 1 | 2 ][ Video ]. The action comes only weeks before the UN COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen, and follows the arrest of 114 activists allegedly planning to infiltrate the power station in April.

More info: Notts IMC timeline | Swoop Live Coverage | 2 | #Swoop Twitter | Climate Camp Twitter | Swoop Flickr Pics | CC Galleries | Swoop Videos| Mainstream TV Reports

Previous coverage: Mass Arrest of 114 Climate Activists in Raid | No case to answer after Notts E.On protest | Fossil Fools Take On E.On In Nottingham | Convictions For Activists - Climate Criminals Walk Free | 'Clean' Coal On Trial | Climate Activists Bring Powerstation Operations To A Halt | Spring Into Action Now!

Links: The Great Climate Swoop | Climate Camp

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Nottingham is not stupid

30-04-2009 14:30 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Nottinghamshire

Last Friday saw the convergence of a number of environmental protests in Nottingham. The regular critical mass was joined by riders in town for the start of the Coal Caravan. They rode past the Broadway cinema, where the Nottingham Not Stupid festival was celebrating the opening of environmental film The Age of Stupid. The riders finished at the Sumac Centre, where the Demo Project put on an evening of entertainment.

The Coal Caravan left for the site of Shipley opencast coal mine in Derbyshire on Saturday morning. It is continuing to a number of sites threatened by the industries of coal extraction and power generation in Yorkshire and the North East. Campaigners' aims are to talk to local people, organise bicycle powered films and events, hold public discussions and displays, and link with groups from different areas to help strengthen isolated campaigns.

Pictures: 1 | 2 | 3

Newswire: Coal Caravan - Latest | Fri 24th April- Coal Caravan/Demo party at the Sumac | Climate Action is Not Stupid

Previous features: Protests continue at Shipley open cast site | Coal On Hold - Derbyshire Coal Mine Site Occupied | Campaigners Trespass on Proposed Coal Mine Site

Links: Coal Caravan blog | Coal Caravan website | Not Stupid Nottingham | Critical Mass Nottingham | Notts Indymedia climate chaos topic

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Mass Arrest of 114 Climate Activists in Raid

13-04-2009 12:32 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire | Sheffield

114 people were arrested in a 2am police raid on a community centre and school on Sneinton Dale, Nottingham, early on Easter Monday, 13th April 2009. It is believed that a demonstration was planned at the E.On powerstation at Ratcliffe-on-Soar as a spokesperson for the company claimed that it was the "planned target of an organised protest". The Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station is the 3rd largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK and has been previously targeted by activists.

Similar to past police actions, some of the homes of those arrested have been raided while they were held in custody. It has been confirmed that at least 6 homes have been raided in Nottingham and personal paperwork and computers have been seized. A school located next to the community centre where people were arrested was also broken into and smashed up by police. Those arrested have now all been released on bail without charges and to re-appear in court in July.

Legal advice for activists: Police powers to search premises.

Meanwhile, four Dutch activists from Earth First! forced entry into E.On's head office in Rotterdam and occupied a director's office to have a 'serious chat' about the planned construction of a new coal fired power station.

More coverage: on Nottinghamshire Indymedia

Photos: [ 1 | 2 ]

On the newswire: Statement of solidarity with the Nottingham 114 | Climate Action 114 Media Blog | A Conspiracy too far? | Solidarity for the Coal Conspiracy 114 | Bristol Rising Tide and Westside Statement of Solidarity for the Ratcliffe 114 | Climate activist searches (raids?) still happening | Mass arrests for thought crime | Nottingham's Climate Criminals | 100+ people arrested in Notts for conspiracy this morning | Climate Protest Busted!? | Mass arrests in Nottingham on Easter Monday

Related previous coverage: No case to answer after Notts E.On protest | Police Searches Houses After Arrests At E.On Blockade | Fossil Fools Take On E.On In Nottingham | Convictions For Activists - Climate Criminals Walk Free | 'Clean' Coal On Trial | Climate Activists Bring Powerstation Operations To A Halt | Spring Into Action Now!

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No case to answer after Notts E.On protest

18-01-2009 20:35 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire

Two environmentalists, arrested following a blockade of E.On's Nottingham offices, had the case against them dismissed on Wednesday. The case collapsed after it emerged that the prosecution had offered no evidence to support the charge of aggravated trespass. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) were found to have been negligent in their administration of the case and were ordered to pay the defence's costs.

The two joined around 30 protesters from Eastside Climate Action in an action against the energy giant, as part of a 'Fossil Fools' protest on 1st April, 2008. They locked themselves to the doors of the offices. The police made a verbal promise to allow them to leave without charges if they agreed to removed the blockade by 10am. They unlocked and were immediately arrested.

In a statement on the day of the action, Eastside Climate Action said: "We are here to tell E-on that ... the only real solution to climate change is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Coal is the dirtiest Fossil Fool and to build new coal power stations in the face of climate change is collective suicide."

Previous feature: Fossil Fools Take On E.ON In Nottingham

Newswire: E-on Nottingham 'Fossil Fools' protest: prosecution offers no evidence | Police Searches Houses After Arrests At E.On Blockade | Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices Surveillance and Specialist Equipment | Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices in Nottingham : Pictures 1 | 2

Links: Eastside Climate Action | Fossil Fools Day 2009 | Notts Indymedia Climate Chaos topic page

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Protests continue at Shipley open cast site

03-11-2008 17:19 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire

Protesters from Earth First! have invaded the Derbyshire site of the open cast mine twice in the last fortnight. On Monday a number of people climbed onto diggers and machinery, stopping work for over two hours. This was preceded by a highly policed picnic that took place on the site last weekend. On Saturday, local environmental group Erewash and Amber Valley Environment Network (EAVON) held a demonstration of 40 people at the site entrance.

These protests are the latest in a campaign that saw Shipley Lodge, a house on the site, squatted during the summer. The squatters used tunnels and tree houses and it took bailiffs and police an entire week to evict them, at the cost of £58,000 to Derbyshire police. The first court case arising from the eviction collapsed last Monday due to lack of evidence.

Newswire: Local residents protest at Lodge Farm open cast site | Shipley Bodge court case collapses | Protestors stop work at Shipley open-cast | Picnic in the Park - Photos Shipley Open Cast Site, Derbyshire | Picnic In The Park - The Sequel | Notts Indymedia Climate Chaos topic page

Previous Feature: Derbyshire Opencast Mine Squatters: Eviction Imminent | Coal On Hold - Derbyshire Coal Mine Site Occupied | Campaigners Trespass on Proposed Coal Mine Site

Links: Derby Earth First! | Leave it in the Ground | Lodge House blog

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Grim reapers target careers fair

24-10-2008 07:31 | Anti-militarism | Climate Chaos | Education | Nottinghamshire

Fliers

Students at the University of Nottingham protested "unethical career corporatism" at the university's careers fair on Monday and Tuesday. Dressed as grim reapers, students payed a visit to arms dealers BAE Systems, Rolls Royce and Qinetiq, as well as energy giants E.On and BP. Leaflets detailing the crimes of some of the companies were hounded out and the protesters even had a stall next to the Army's stall.

The protesters aimed to highlight the hypocrisy of organisers, AIESEC, who claim to embody "Peace and fulfillment of humankind's potential" whilst giving a platform to arms dealers, as well as to "oppose the general presence of mechanisms of the capitalist death machine." Their success was highlighted by the noteable absence of several targetted companies on the second day of the fair.

Newswire: Students Target Unethical Career Corporatism | Shell Shuts Up | Students Call For An End To University Involvement In The Arms Industry | Notts Indymedia Anti-militarism topic page

Previous Feature: Protests as arms dealers attend careersfair

Links: Nottingham Student Peace Movement | AIESEC UK

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Activists Disrupt Biofuels Conference

19-10-2008 10:46 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Nottinghamshire

Climate activists marked World Food Day by brining the European Biofuels Expo and Conference taking place at Newark Showground to a standstill. Several campaigners successfully scaled the roof of the building at the Newark Showground, dropping large banners inside the conference hall whilst others set off multiple rape alarms inside the centre in protest at what they see as the rape of the planet that Agrofuels are causing.

Their action against the Expo, dubbed by campaigners as the ‘Newark Exposé’, was staged to protest against the ‘greenwash’ that Biofuels can be sustainable and are good for the environment. John Simmons, from the roof of the Newark building, said "It is unacceptable that the Biofuels industry, which is responsible for large-scale rainforest destruction, evictions of communities, hunger and accelerated climate change hold conferences where they portray themselves as ‘green’."

Newswire: Activists Bring Biofuels Conference to Stand Still on World Food Day | World Food Day | European Biofuels Expo and Conference | Notts Indymedia Climate Chaos topic page

Previous Feature: Biofuels Conference Disrupted At Concerns Over Multi-National 'Greenwash'

Links: Biofuelwatch

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Climate Camp: Down With the Eastside

08-08-2008 18:20 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos | Nottinghamshire

From 3rd-11th August 2008, the Camp For Climate Action is being held in Kingsnorth, Kent near the proposed site of the first coal-fired power station in the UK since 1984.

Notingham residents are amongst those participating in the camp, organising themselves as part of the Eastside "neighbourhood" which also includes the good citizens of other Eastern parts of the country including Derby, Cambridge and Norfolk. Unfortunately, a Nottingham man is among those who have fallen victim to overzealous policing and was arrested, accused of "possession of a bladed article" (hardly an unusual situation for a camper).

Newswire: Riseup! Radio #8 - September Show | Riseup! Radio #7 August Show – Climate Camp Special | Climate Camp Location & Route (from Nottm or Anywhere) | Nottingham Riders Set Off For Climate Camp | Sumac Climate Action Garden Party: The Pictures 2 | Sumac Climate Action Garden Party: The Pictures 1 | Sumac Garden Party | Climate Camp Jingle

Notts climate features since last camp: Derbyshire Opencast Mine Squatters: Eviction Imminent | Free Food in Nottingham | Coal On Hold - Derbyshire Coal Mine Site Occupied | Campaigners Trespass on Proposed Coal Mine Site | New Old Coal for Notts | Fossil Fools Take On E.ON In Nottingham | Convictions For Activists - Climate Criminals Walk Free | 'Clean' Coal On Trial | Biofuels Conference Disrupted At Concerns Over Multi-National 'Greenwash' | Nuclear No Answer To Climate Change | DIY V3 Wind Turbine Workshop

National features: Climate Camp - Quick Links | Climate Camp: Kingsnorth Power Station Breached | Climate Camp: How The Police Radicalized An Entire Generation | Climate Camp Day 6: Action Spreads Across South East | Heathrow to Kingsnorth Climate Caravan 2008 | The not-so-secret 'guide to policing protest' | Climate Camp: Site Taken

Links: Climate Camp | Climate IMC | Eastside Climate Action | Network for Climate Action | Days of Climate Action | Workshop programme | Notts Indymedia Climate Camp 2008 topic page

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Nottinghamshire Climate Chaos Feature Archive >>