UK Energy Crisis Newswire Archive
BP Gulf of Mexico Spill Special
06-05-2010 18:11
Notts County Council Pension Fund invests in BP
06-05-2010 09:59
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.South Africa:
03-05-2010 11:50
The sight of people, mostly women or children, walking kilometres over dusty roads to haul wood back to their homes for cooking, heat and light is not uncommon in South Africa’s rural areas. Likewise, every winter, fires rampage through the thousands of shanty towns that dot the urban landscape because people are forced to use dangerous sources of energy like coal and paraffin.Sizewell Camp Against Nuclear Power - Chernobyl Weekend - pics
30-04-2010 18:31
More details here:
http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2010/04/sizewell-campers-mark-chernobyl.html
Keeping the Lights On in South Yorkshire: Is Our Future Nuclear Free or Nuclear?
28-04-2010 23:52
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Climate Protesters Face Potential Life Sentences
28-04-2010 14:37
18 people from Bristol and Bath, have been charged under the MaliciousDamages Act of 1861 after they blockaded the railtrack which carries coal between the controversial Open cast Mine at Fros y Fran, near Merthyr Tydfil and Aberthaw Power Station on Monday, 26th April.
Anti-nuclear protests in Germany – "We'll be wherever they don't want us to be"
27-04-2010 11:09
Party At The Pumps Part 2... This Time It's SHELL!
27-04-2010 10:06
• 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 Sizewell Campers Mark Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster
26-04-2010 14:14
Monday, 26 April 2010Around twenty activists from the Stop Nuclear Power Network [1] have held a ceremony on the beach in front of Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk (England) this afternoon to mark the 24th anniversary of the world's worst ever civil nuclear disaster, at Chernobyl (Ukraine). [2] They are looking to highlight the risk of a similar catastrophe happening in Suffolk, due to a reactor meltdown [3,4] or major radioactive waste incident.
Goldman Sachs in Eskom Privatisation Scam
21-04-2010 12:40
In the latest edition of Finweek, Sikonathi Mantshantsha reports thatEskom has asked international mergers and acquisitions teams of
financial giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to advise it on a proposed
restructuring.
The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society - Making Good Society
18-04-2010 12:14
Civil society is on the cusp of remarkable change. The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland believes that civil society activity has the power to radically alter the way we live and plays a central role in responding to the challenges of our time.Bloody Oil - My people are dying, and we believe British companies are responsib
18-04-2010 00:19
"My people are dying, and we believe British companies are responsible. My community, Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, is situated at the heart of the vast toxic moonscape that is the tar sands development. We live in a beautiful area, but unfortunately, we find ourselves upstream from the largest fossil fuel development on earth.BP + Tar Sands = Climate Crime – Thu 15 Apr 10
16-04-2010 17:58
MOPG PR 53) Minorca Opencast Decision now postponed until the Summer
16-04-2010 12:11
This press release give details of the new July date for Leicestershire County Council to decide on the Minorca application and some initial reactions to the postponement.from the Minorca Opencast Protest GroupOil, Violence and Social Movements in Colombia
15-04-2010 21:55
Key Guest: Bruno Federico.Bruno is part of COSPACC*, a Colombian collective that works with
communities in the region where BP operate for oil.
He will explore questions around energy sovereignty, control of natural
resources and what this might look like practically for the environmental
movement in the North-West, in the context of global climate change.
The bank loan that could break SA's back
15-04-2010 11:25
The World Bank's poisoned 'gift' of $3.75bn to Eskom spells disaster forthe climate, the poor and our fragile democracy
'Activists Target BP’s Investment in Tar Sands with Roof Occupation'
15-04-2010 10:43
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.
Fighting Corruption or Persecuting Political Opponents in Venezuela? A Response
14-04-2010 14:21
"A judge should not get a cosier cell just because of her socio-economic class.""In his April 3rd article for the New York Times, Romero manipulated and distorted the facts about Afiuni’s case to fit the Times’s agenda of impeding honest news and discussion about Venezuela, driving forward the informational sabotage against the Chavez government that is widespread in the mainstream international media.
Romero asserted that Judge Afiuni and Eligio Cedeño were political prisoners. This is clearly inaccurate, especially since no evidence was presented that they were politically active. His piece also implied, by omission of sufficient context, that the Chavez government is the primary cause of the problems in the judicial system. This is also inaccurate and disingenuous. Romero even went so far as to implicitly compare Afiuni to the Dalai Lama at the end of his article, confirming the Times’s lack of seriousness when addressing these issues.
Romero’s article is an insult to the real political prisoners of Latin America – past and present – who have been tortured, murdered, and disappeared by dictators and neo-liberal regimes that used the justice system as a repressive tool to eliminate opponents. And, Romero’s article distracts his international audience from any constructive discourse about the problems in Venezuela’s justice system and how to overcome them, in the context of this gruesome history."
Party at the Pumps – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 10 Apr 10
14-04-2010 12:00
