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UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

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Crude Awakening - 10 targets (that just missed our short list)

08-10-2010 08:20

London is a petropolis: a city running on oil. From slickers in the city to London’s clogged up streets; from the hundreds of petrol stations to the headquarters of Big Oil. Around every corner is another target in the struggle to kick our oil addiction.

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Call for International Solidarity: International Week of Action Against Fonterro

07-10-2010 21:45

We are calling for an international week of actions against Fonterra and the international dairy industry from November 8th to November 14th.

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Crude Awakening; more info announced

07-10-2010 16:26

The countdown is on… 10 days to go!



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In this newsletter



1. Bloc updates

2. Practicalities: what to bring and legal info

3. 10 targets… that just missed our short-list

4. Why oil?

5. Build up events

6. New videos: the why and how of direct action

7. Facebook

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Manchester Airport protesters appear in Magistrates court

06-10-2010 07:12

Outside Trafford Magistrates Court
Six Manchester residents from the group Manchester Plane Stupid pleaded not guilty to their charge of aggravated trespass as they claim that in the light of Manchester airports contribution to runaway climate change, it was the necessary action to take. The trial will take place on February 21st 2011 and will be the first climate change trial of its kind in Manchester where expert climate scientists will defend the six against the polluting activities of Manchester airport.

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PRESS RELEASE: Anti-nuclear campaigners blockade EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear power plant

04-10-2010 07:17

Since 7am this morning, anti-nuclear campaigners from different anti-nuclear groups which are part of the Stop Nuclear Power Network [1] are blockading the access road to EDF's Hinkley Point nuclear power station in protest against EDF's plans for nuclear new build and what they are calling a flawed consultation.

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Campesino Leader In Wales

03-10-2010 00:24

LATIN AMERICA: THE ECOSOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
Wednesday 13 October at 7 pm
Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place,Cardiff (opp. Student Union Building)
Organised by local environmental, green, trade union, socialist and latin american solidarity groups.

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£400M research - No Nuke Dump Site in W Cumbria

02-10-2010 15:51

Professor David Smythe, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow
Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -
No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of nuclear waste!

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The Crude Awakening: Newsletter 3 - Blocs Revealved!

30-09-2010 13:14

In this week’s newsletter…
1. Blocs revealed: Dirty Money Bloc, Building Bloc, Body Bloc 2. Sign up now!
3. Upcoming events 4. Travel and accommodation 5. South Coast video

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Join us on 10/10/10 for the Edinburgh 350 Work Party!

30-09-2010 12:08

We are running three climate action events to celebrate the 10/10/10 "Global Work Party" called by 350.org and the 10:10 campaign.

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Risk of another Chernobyl disaster with new EPR nuclear reactor design

30-09-2010 10:38

The French Nuclear Phase-Out Network (Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire) has received new confidential internal documents belonging to French utility EDF that show that flaws in the Areva EPR nuclear reactor design, the same type due to be built by EDF at Hinkley Point in Somerset and Sizewell in Suffolk, could lead to a Chernobyl-type disaster.

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Another Set of Objections ignored by UK Coal

30-09-2010 10:02

This press release explains MOPG's 4th set of Objections which criticises UK Coal's assessment of the alleged economic and social benefits associated with the proposed Minorca Surface Mines and makes the claim that our campaign has extracted an extra £1m of proposed local 'benefits'. This represents the price UK is willing to pay rather than answer our objections.

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Wednesday is International Radioactive Waste Action Day

28-09-2010 12:54

Cooling the High Level Wastes
The date was chosen to commemorate the worst known radioactive waste disaster -- a reprocessing storage tank explosion, following loss of cooling water, in the Ural Mountains of Siberia on Sept. 29, 1957 . An entire region contaminated, hundreds immediately killed and the poisoning and death of many more since, due to the lingering radioactive contamination of a vast area of the environment.

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March on Parliament for a Zero Carbon Britain

28-09-2010 11:13

Part of a Global Day of Action on climate www.globalclimatecampaign.org on the Saturday midway through the UN Climate Talks in Cancun, Mexico.

Challenge the government to take the action we need to meet the climate threat.

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Coal Dust will be a problem if Minorca goes ahead say Protestors

27-09-2010 15:20

This Press Release describes why the Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) believe that visible black coal dust will affect the daily life of local people as MOPG publish its 3rd objection.

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Stop Agrofuel Power Station Demo Report

26-09-2010 23:09

A National Rally Against Agrofuels at Portland, Dorset on Saturday 25th September, 2010, was organised by No Oil Palm Energy (NOPE), supported by Campaign Against Climate Change, Biofuelwatch and Food Not Fuel.

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Shadows of Doubt

26-09-2010 17:42

Audio
A conspiracy to create doubt about climate change, documented by Dr. Naomi Oreskes in "Merchants of Doubt".

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Gathering at The Happendon Wood Action Camp - Weekend of action and skill-sharin

23-09-2010 19:37

Friday 1st - Monday 4th October

After spirited resistance to Scottish Coal’s plans to mine Mainshill, the site of their next mine in South Lanarkshire has been occupied! The Happendon Wood Action Camp (THWAC) has squatted a beautiful part of Happendon Wood to serve as a base from which to organise in surrounding communities and to take action from, as well as dig in for the long-haul and inevitable attempt to open cast the area. With corporate rule taking over the Douglas Valley and legal threats to communities from the council and fat-cat land owner, action is needed now more than ever.

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Shell to Sea Occupy Shell's Drill Rig For 12 Hours

23-09-2010 15:04

As a continuation of Rossport's Beat the Boreholes campaign, this Monday 20 September two protesters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm.

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UK Coal fails to respond to two more Minorca Opencast Objections

23-09-2010 11:22

This press release outlines why MOPG are still mounting objections to the Minorca Application on economic grounds.
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