UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive
Community Share Offer for Sheffield Green Hydro Project Gets the Go-ahead
11-08-2012 10:20
Renewable energy from hydro-electric power on the River Don came a step closer with the announcement this week of the launch of the campaign to raise finance for the scheme at Blackburn Meadows on the Sheffield/Rotherham border. Community energy group Sheffield Renewables is launching a Community Share offer to raise the £250,000 needed to begin construction of the Archimedean screw development in 2013. Supporters of the scheme will be asked to invest £250 per share and it is hoped to raise the funds in three months with the rest of the finance being made available through commercial loans.Nuclear energy set to kill off renewables sector
10-08-2012 16:05
Anti-nuclear activists are calling for mass protests against the government's bid to introduce backdoor subsidies for its 'nuclear renaissance' in the forthcoming Energy Bill - a move that could starve the renewables sector of vital investment.Tar Free Oxford Takes Off
10-08-2012 12:22
Tar Free Towns [
http://tarfreetowns.org/what-is-a-tar-free-town/ ] is an idea we had a little while ago, which originated from the desire to connect people in the UK with communities fighting tar sands in Canada, by supporting and encouraging hubs of tar sands activism to flourish in the UK.
UK Coal plc Selling Off Prospective Opencast Sites?
08-08-2012 15:24
The latest July review of prospective opencast sites, mainly in England provides evidence that such is the financial plight of UK Coal that it is actively seeking to sell sites it is trying to gain planing permission for.Take Back the Land! - short action film
02-08-2012 19:12
Critical Mass - Some good news
02-08-2012 13:35
Man convicted for attacking cyclists on Brighton Critical Mass last year.Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments
All out on the streets
02-08-2012 00:39
Half moon Critical MassTake Back the Land: Action Round-Up
26-07-2012 09:56
http://takebacktheland.org.uk/) were saying goodbye for now to our site on the edge of 350ha of bog and wet heath moorland – the proposed new Glentaggart East site ( http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?page_id=2570). The camp was occupied on the evening of the 10th July and set up on the symbolic site of Scottish Coal’s new mine in the Douglas Valley, a beautiful part of the Southern Uplands. The occupation was the third in the area since 2009 and part of Coal Action Scotland’s four-year old direct action campaign against opencast coal mining in the Douglas Valley.
Another Opencast application for the Marley Hill Area?
25-07-2012 19:42
This area between Gateshead and Co Durham already has already had to contend with one recent opencast application for the Birklands site as well as the prospect of more opencastin g on the proposed Marley Colliery Reclamation site. Now it seems local people could soon face a third applicationDerbyshire to face a new threat of Opencast Mininf?
25-07-2012 19:35
Derbyshire, which is becoming a new centre for Opencast Coal mining with I site already in operation at Lodge House, an application for another one at George Farm, a possible one at Hill Top now faces the possibility of another one near Renishaw, Staverly and Barlborough.New Threat of Opencast Mining in Sth Yorkshire
25-07-2012 19:26
New research for the Loose Anti Opencast Network as revealed the possibility of UK Coal applying for planning permission for an opencast mine within the next 5 years at a site located between Normanton, Agbrigg and SharlestonA review of Take Back the land
22-07-2012 21:26
A review of take back the Land and what it means for the current situation within the radical climate movement.Anti-Fracking Banner at World Golf Championship (22/07/2012)
22-07-2012 19:30
Anti-fracking activists today unfurled a banner at international golfing event.Gas Rig Occupiers Get Fracked
18-07-2012 20:12
Aristocrat landlord’s garden opencasted!
18-07-2012 12:39
Broken Cross Open Cast Site blockaded – police act as Scottish Coal security
16-07-2012 10:27
California’s dysfunctional alliance between suburban greens
16-07-2012 08:23
California’s dysfunctional alliance between suburban greensMainshill Open Cast Coal Site shut down!
14-07-2012 11:01
Mass action against opencast coal tomorrow: 14th July
13-07-2012 11:33
