Category: Climate Chaos

EarthFirst! blockade at coal-fired power plant in Rotterdam, NL

8.12.2007
On Sat­ur­day morn­ing a col­lec­tive of twen­ty Dutch Earth­First! activists blocked the coal con­vey­or- belt to a plant owned by the Ger­man ener­gy giant E.on on the Maasvlak­te near Rot­ter­dam. This day, Decem­ber 8, has been announced as an inter­na­tion­al action­day in the protest against the coal indus­try. The grow­ing num­ber of coal-fired pow­er plants world­wide and in the Nether­lands at the moment is the biggest threath to the cli­mate. Sec­ond­ly, this action is part of the protest against the plans for a new E.on coal-fired plant, right next to the exist­ing one on the Maasvlak­te.

Maasvlakte lock-ons 2

8.12.2007
On Sat­ur­day morn­ing a col­lec­tive of twen­ty Dutch Earth­First! activists blocked the coal con­vey­or- belt to a plant owned by the Ger­man ener­gy giant E.on on the Maasvlak­te near Rot­ter­dam. This day, Decem­ber 8, has been announced as an inter­na­tion­al action­day in the protest against the coal indus­try. The grow­ing num­ber of coal-fired pow­er plants world­wide and in the Nether­lands at the moment is the biggest threath to the cli­mate. Sec­ond­ly, this action is part of the protest against the plans for a new E.on coal-fired plant, right next to the exist­ing one on the Maasvlak­te.

Sev­er­al activists have locked them­selves to the con­vey­or-belt which trans­ports the coals to the pow­er­plant. ‘Unfor­tu­nate­ly that won’t mean they’ll shut down the entire pow­er plant. There’s enough sup­ply at the fur­nace to keep it run­ning for a while. If we real­ly man­age to shut down the plant there’ll be enough oth­er plants to cov­er the short­age’, accord­ing to Flip, one of the par­tic­i­pat­ing activists. The activists plan to stay as long as pos­si­ble. They demand the can­cel­la­tion of the con­struc­tion plans for the new E.on coalpow­er­plant.

In the Nether­lands five new coal-fired pow­er plants are planned to be built. E.on is mak­ing a con­cert­ed effort to be the first com­pa­ny to start build­ing next spring. E.on is also plan­ning to build a coal-fired plant in Antwer­pen, Bel­gium. These new pow­er plants do not cor­re­spond at all with the cli­mate-ambi­tions of the Nether­lands and specif­i­cal­ly Rot­ter­dam to reduce CO2 emis­sions. Coals are the most pol­lut­ing ener­gy source pos­si­ble, because apart from CO2, the emis­sions also include heavy met­als, radioac­tive par­ti­cles and oth­er green­house gas­es. Because of this, build­ing a new pow­er plant makes sure any attempt to solve the cli­mate cri­sis will nev­er suc­ceed. Besides, the build­ing of new coal-fired plants inter­feres with the devel­op­ment of sus­tain­able ener­gy. The pol­lut­ing sources fill the ener­gy grid and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment invest­ments will only be used for car­bon cap­ture and stor­age.

The com­pa­ny E.on is run­ning a PR cam­paign, using pret­ty words like ‘Clean Coals’ and ‘the Cap­ture Ready prepa­ra­tion’ of the new plant to defend them­selves. Both these terms have been proved to be based on noth­ing. The min­ing of coals is extreme­ly pol­lut­ing; so there is no such thing as ‘Clean Coals’. Large part­sof the Earth are being destroyed; there is severe pol­lu­tion of water and soil in the min­ing areas of the Unit­ed States, Colum­bia, Indone­sia and South Africa. In the coalmines, min­ers are being exploit­ed and annu­al­ly thou­sands of peo­ple die as a result of dis­as­ters.

The term ‘Cap­ture Ready prepa­ra­tion’ used by E.on is a fraud. A car­bon-cap­tur­ing pow­er plant will use between 24 and 40 per­cent of its pro­duced ener­gy on the cap­ture process. It must there­fore burn more coal to pro­vide the same amount of out­put ener­gy as a non car­bon-cap­tur­ing pow­er plant.

The type of plant E.on is about to build has proven to be extreme­ly unsuit­able for car­bon stor­age. The fumes released by this spe­cif­ic type of plant con­tain many pol­lu­tants and thus are com­pli­cat­ed and expen­sive to treat. E.on’s promise to start cap­tur­ing car­bon ‘as soon as it is tech­ni­cal­ly and com­mer­cial­ly viable’ is there­fore com­plete­ly point­less and has only result­ed in an emp­ty spot on the blue­prints, reserved for a future cap­tur­ing instal­la­tion.

So what if you can­not burn coals as an ener­gy source? Flip: ‘Besides the pos­si­bil­i­ty of decen­tralised and actu­al sus­tain­able ener­gy, it is most of all nec­es­sary to use less pow­er. Sus­tain­able pow­er has its lim­its as well. If we real­ly want to antic­i­pate the deple­tion of nat­ur­al resources and the ensu­ing cli­mat­ic dis­as­ter, we’ll some­how have to find a dif­fer­ent way of liv­ing that won’t include dog­mat­ic eco­nom­ic growth. Play more with less’.

The Dutch Earth­First! action is part of the ‘Shrink or Sink’ cam­paign, fight­ing both the cli­mate and ener­gy cri­sis and rapid­ly decreas­ing biover­si­ty. Direct action against the con­struc­tion of new coal-fired plants is one of the main top­ics of the cam­paign.

Maasvlakte lock-ons locations
Maasvlakte banner

Plane Stupid activists shut down travel agents on route of climate march

Envi­ron­men­tal activists from direct action group Plane Stu­pid have shut down trav­el agents and air­line offices along the route of today’s Nation­al Cli­mate March in Lon­don as part of the Glob­al Day of Action against cli­mate change.

Climate march travel agents shutEnvi­ron­men­tal activists from direct action group Plane Stu­pid have shut down trav­el agents and air­line offices along the route of today’s Nation­al Cli­mate March in Lon­don as part of the Glob­al Day of Action against cli­mate change.

Plane Stu­pid spokesper­son Michael Kel­ly said,

“These busi­ness­es con­tin­ue, with full sup­port from the gov­ern­ment, to prof­it from wreck­ing our cli­mate.”

The march is set to coin­cide with the UN cli­mate talks in Bali where the British gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue to talk big on cli­mate change whilst fail­ing to take mean­ing­ful action at home.

Kel­ly added:

“The government’s col­lu­sion with BAA over the Heathrow con­sul­ta­tion on the third run­way con­cretes over pub­lic debate and irre­spon­si­bly ignores cli­mate warn­ings from the UN Inter-gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change.”

Plane Stu­pid argues that we can­not afford to wait for gov­ern­ments, in bed with the likes of the avi­a­tion indus­try, to face up to the real­i­ties of the cli­mate threat. Today Plane Stu­pid will march as part of the grow­ing move­ment of cli­mate activists who have decid­ed that they must act them­selves to stop cli­mate change.

http://www.planestupid.com

Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008

Ris­ing Tide Inter­na­tion­al is call­ing for a day of action against the fos­sil fuel indus­try on April 1st 2008…

Fossil Fools Day advance flierRis­ing Tide Inter­na­tion­al is call­ing for a day of action against the fos­sil fuel indus­try on April 1st 2008…
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY!

Roll up, roll up! The cli­mate cir­cus is in town. Cli­mate change threat­ens our very sur­vival, but the fools at the head of the fos­sil fuel empire con­tin­ue to plun­der the earth, with gov­ern­ments the will­ing court jesters at their side.

They would have us believe that we can escape cli­mate change with tech­no-fix­es, mar­ket mech­a­nisms and off­set schemes – all tech­no­crat­ic acro­bat­ics that dis­tract us from the truth: the only real solu­tion to cli­mate change is to keep fos­sil fuels in the ground.

For over a cen­tu­ry the fos­sil fuel indus­try has been fool­ing with our lives. From extrac­tion to com­bus­tion they have poi­soned our air, pol­lut­ed our water and ruined our cli­mate. On April 1st, 2008, we’re going to turn the tables and show them who the real fools are.

Find a local fos­sil fool – the coal-min­ing clown, the off­set con­tor­tion­ist, the avi­a­tor trip­ping on the high wire, the super­mar­ket food mile freak show, the oily strong man, or any oth­er fool that deserves your atten­tion – and join with thou­sands around the world in tak­ing one step clos­er to dis­man­tling the fos­sil fuel indus­try.

On Fos­sil Fools Day, bring the spir­it of car­ni­val and mis­chief to the fight for cli­mate jus­tice.

www.fossilfoolsday.org
www.risingtide.org.uk

(More info and resources com­ing soon… for now, put the date in your diary, spread the call-out above far and wide, and start schem­ing!)

All Manchester city centre Flight Centres & Hummer dealership targetted

For peo­ple inter­est­ed in some­thing a lit­tle more direct than the big cli­mate demo in Lon­don tomor­row…

Tonight, all Flight Cen­tre branch­es in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre have been super­glued closed, in time for Sat­ur­day trad­ing and to coin­cide with the cli­mate march in Lon­don tomor­row. They were past­ed with notices say­ing: “Closed — we want your kids to have a plan­et”

For peo­ple inter­est­ed in some­thing a lit­tle more direct than the big cli­mate demo in Lon­don tomor­row…

Tonight, all Flight Cen­tre branch­es in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre have been super­glued closed, in time for Sat­ur­day trad­ing and to coin­cide with the cli­mate march in Lon­don tomor­row. They were past­ed with notices say­ing: “Closed — we want your kids to have a plan­et”

The UK’s only Hum­mer deal­er­ship, Bauer Mil­lett, was also locked shut with a D‑lock.

Stick­ers have also start­ed appear­ing all over Man­ches­ter with “The Tide is Ris­ing” and a blue line…see ear­li­er post about a ban­ner drop, http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17886

Earth First!

The Tide Is Rising

7.12.2007
A ban­ner read­ing: ‘THE TIDE IS RISING’ with a blue wave across it now wel­comes all those enter­ing the city of Man­ches­ter on the Princess park­way. This marks the begin­ning of a num­ber of Cli­mate cam­paigns this week­end.

7.12.2007
A ban­ner read­ing: ‘THE TIDE IS RISING’ with a blue wave across it now wel­comes all those enter­ing the city of Man­ches­ter on the Princess park­way. This marks the begin­ning of a num­ber of Cli­mate cam­paigns this week­end.

In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing (Fri­day 7th Dec 2007) activists dropped a ban­ner from the pedes­tri­an bridge near Hulme. It was still there at eleven twen­ty and, as far as we know, remains hang­ing at this moment.

Sea lev­els may well rise by 6 metres if the worst reports come true. The 8th Decem­ber is the inter­na­tion­al day for Cli­mate Change. Whether you’re in Lon­don, Man­ches­ter or any where, you can join the tide for change. Use rib­bons, chalk, or any­thing non tox­ic to mark a sym­bol­ic tide line, 1 metre above the ground on trees, fences or any oth­er places this week­end. Let’s make fac­ing this urgent prob­lem unavoid­able.

Fred Pearce in his most recent book ‘The last gen­er­a­tion’ has sight­ed a num­ber of alarm­ing reports from sci­en­tists in both the Artic and Antarc­tic that state ice is melt­ing at an expe­ri­en­tial rate.
If these reports are right we have passed an irre­versible tip­ping point mak­ing sea lev­el ris­es immi­nent (in some reports as much as 6 Metres).

Action needs to be tak­en from the grass roots lev­el to the top.

Be the change!

Women Climate Activists Blockade the Department for Transport

7.12.2007
Women have this morn­ing block­ad­ed the Depart­ment for Trans­port pre­vent­ing staff from get­ting to work and car­ry­ing out their poli­cies which are cat­a­pult­ing us towards dan­ger­ous run-away cli­mate change. This action comes in response to the Trans­port Sec­re­tary Ruth Kel­ly con­firm­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s inten­tions to build a third run­way and a sixth ter­mi­nal at Heathrow and co-incides with the open­ing of their first ‘con­sul­ta­tion’ exhi­bi­tion.

Women blockade DfTWomen blockade DfT 27.12.2007
Women have this morn­ing block­ad­ed the Depart­ment for Trans­port pre­vent­ing staff from get­ting to work and car­ry­ing out their poli­cies which are cat­a­pult­ing us towards dan­ger­ous run-away cli­mate change. This action comes in response to the Trans­port Sec­re­tary Ruth Kel­ly con­firm­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s inten­tions to build a third run­way and a sixth ter­mi­nal at Heathrow and co-incides with the open­ing of their first ‘con­sul­ta­tion’ exhi­bi­tion.

This protest is part of a grow­ing direct action move­ment against cli­mate change inspired by the Camp for Cli­mate Action (1). On Wednes­day over 30 cli­mate activists includ­ing the colum­nist George Mon­biot invad­ed and occu­pied Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. On 28th Novem­ber, pro­test­ers from cli­mate action group Plane Stu­pid dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick in protest at the Heathrow expan­sion plans. This week­end thou­sands of peo­ple will march on the streets of Lon­don to protest about cli­mate change. This protest is a call to all to stand up and take action against the gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions who are fuel­ing cli­mate chaos.

Why the DfT?

Trans­port is the fastest grow­ing source of cli­mate change gas­es in the UK, now account­ing for 26% of emis­sions (2). In a time when we des­per­ate­ly need to reduce emis­sions, the DfT plans to build more roads and more air­ports encour­ag­ing us to dri­ve and fly more. The DfT was tar­get­ted dur­ing the Camp for Cli­mate Action in August, and women have returned today to re-empha­sise the role of our gov­ern­ment in dan­ger­ous trans­port expan­sion plans. Groups will con­tin­ue to return to the DfT until the gov­ern­ment reviews its poli­cies.

Why women?

Women have act­ed today in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the res­i­dents of Sip­son, espe­cial­ly the women who con­tin­ue to cam­paign to pro­tect their homes, despite bul­ly­ing and pres­sure from BAA, and the women all over the world who fight every­day to sur­vive in the face of increas­ing cli­mate chaos.

NO 3rd run­way at Heathrow

Avi­a­tion is already the fastest grow­ing source of UK car­bon diox­ide emis­sions (3), and these emis­sions are released high in the atmos­phere mean­ing we feel their effects imme­di­ate­ly. Heathrow is already the busiest air­port in the world. Build­ing a third run­way will lead to even more flights and more pol­lu­tion. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty recent­ly con­clud­ed that it will be impos­si­ble to meet the gov­ern­men­t’s own tar­get for a 60 per cent car­bon reduc­tion by 2050 with­out curb­ing avi­a­tion growth (4)

NO M1 Widen­ing

The DfT is build­ing a £5 bil­lion 115 mile long expan­sion of the M1 with an increase of 186,092 tonnes of CO2 every year (5). Is this tak­ing cli­mate change seri­ous­ly? We call for a scrap­ping of the cur­rent and pro­posed schemes up and down the length of the M1.

NO green wash

We call for a reduc­tion in trans­port, and reject dan­ger­ous green wash such as ‘bio­fu­els’ and car­bon off­set­ting. We can­not con­tin­ue with relent­less growth on a finite plan­et. We all need to reduce con­sump­tion, and our car­bon emis­sions. (6)

Jane Wil­son, on the protest says, “The gov­ern­ment does not like to admit it , but we can­not sus­tain our cur­rent lev­els of con­sump­tion or the growth econ­o­my and stop cli­mate change. Its time to stop tin­ker­ing at the edges and wake up to the real­i­ty of the threat & take seri­ous and dras­tic action. We have to cre­ate a soci­ety that is less depen­dent on ener­gy, and that is more local­ly self-suf­fi­cient.”

Notes for Edi­tors:

1 The Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 (www.climatecamp.org.uk) was a large protest and edu­ca­tion­al event at Heathrow this year, high­light­ing the link between the avi­a­tion indus­try and cli­mate change.

2 The Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port (www.bettertransport.org.uk)

3 Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port

4 Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port

5 Bio­fu­el­watch (www.biofuelwatch.org.uk)

==========================
Update and out­come

In the end: Hav­ing shut the DFT for over two hours, eight women who were locked or glued to the doors of the DFT were arrest­ed, held all day in Bel­gravia Police Sta­tion and then released on bail.

They are all charged with offences under SOCPA (seri­ous organ­ised crime and police act). At least one more was sum­moned to appear under SOCPA, although not arrest­ed.

Total amount of women involved was around twen­ty. They’re all ace and of course this is only the begin­ning of women pitch­ing in to stop cli­mate chaos on their own terms.

–

One of these women, hav­ing been released on bail for SOCPA, was rear­rest­ed at the Dec 8 March in Lon­don, for being in the SOCPA zone!!

She was held until Mon­day 10th when the court saw her and threw out the bail-breach on the grounds that she should nev­er had had such bail con­di­tions.

Anoth­er exam­ple of the MET endear­ing them­selves to us then.

Ffos y Fran Coal Mine, 5th Dec 2007: activists chained to bulldozers to prevent work on open-cast coal mine (video added)

More than thir­ty cli­mate activists and local res­i­dents this morn­ing took mass direct action to pre­vent exca­va­tion work on Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

open cast lock-onMore than thir­ty cli­mate activists and local res­i­dents this morn­ing took mass direct action to pre­vent exca­va­tion work on Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

Cli­mate cam­paign­ers from all over Wales (2) joined with local peo­ple from Merthyr Tyd­fil to evade police and secu­ri­ty before tak­ing over the 1,000 acre site on a hill­top near Cardiff. They have chained them­selves to bull­doz­ers and oth­er heavy machin­ery to pre­vent work on the mine and have unfurled large ban­ners. They’ve pledged to pre­vent work on the site for as long as they can by climb­ing onto, and chain­ing them­selves to the 1,300 horse­pow­er yel­low dig­gers. The lead­ing envi­ron­men­tal­ist and author, George Mon­biot, is amongst their ranks.

Cli­mate Pro­tes­tor, Tim Hel­weg-Larsen, from Mach­nyn­l­leth, said:

“Gor­don Brown’s offi­cials this week jet off to Bali for UN talks on cut­ting car­bon emis­sions but at home they’re try­ing to drag us into a new coal age.”

He added:

“Coal is the filth­i­est fuel known to man and projects like this mine could destroy all our chances of tack­ling glob­al warm­ing. The bat­tle over this hill­top in Wales is a fight for the sta­bil­i­ty of the glob­al cli­mate and it epit­o­mis­es this government’s hypocrisy on cli­mate change.” (3)

Merthyr res­i­dent, Leon Stan­field, explained:

“We’ve protest­ed this mine in all the con­ven­tion­al ways. Now we’re turn­ing to direct action as a last resort. This project is wreck­ing both the local and the glob­al envi­ron­ment and is putting the health of our com­mu­ni­ty and its chil­dren at risk.”

Over 10,000 local peo­ple peti­tioned against the pit.

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

(1) Back­ground about the mine is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/09/energy
Miller Argent is the con­sor­tium dig­ging this pit. They are min­ing for 11 mil­lion tonnes of coal from the site. When this is burned, it will emit more than 30 mil­lion tonnes of car­bon diox­ide. The edge of the mine pit will be just 36 metres from people’s homes.

(2) Activists are from the group who organ­ised the Camp for Cli­mate Action out­side Heathrow dur­ing the sum­mer. www.climatecamp.org.uk

(3) The gov­ern­ment has con­vened a UK coal forum to “bring for­ward ways of strength­en­ing the indus­try, and work­ing to ensure the UK has the right frame­work to secure the long term future of coal fired gen­er­a­tion.”
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file39568.pdf (page8)

- ENDS —

Stream­ing for online view­ing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCn5HMI2M4

Full rez screen­ing copy
http://blip.tv/file/get/Undercurrents-PolarBearsPopulateWelshCoalMine312.mp4

International Hoax Targets US Business Consortium Amidst Bali Climate Negotiations

Cli­mate activists with the inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide net­work embar­rassed the U.S. Cli­mate Action Part­ner­ship (USCAP), a lob­by group com­posed of 33 promi­nent busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, by dis­trib­ut­ing a spoof press release declar­ing that the consortium’s mem­bers had com­mit­ted to a 90 per­cent reduc­tion in their green­house gas emis­sions by 2050. In addi­tion, the spoof release called for an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on the con­struc­tion of all new coal-fired pow­er plants.

Cli­mate activists with the inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide net­work embar­rassed the U.S. Cli­mate Action Part­ner­ship (USCAP), a lob­by group com­posed of 33 promi­nent busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, by dis­trib­ut­ing a spoof press release declar­ing that the consortium’s mem­bers had com­mit­ted to a 90 per­cent reduc­tion in their green­house gas emis­sions by 2050. In addi­tion, the spoof release called for an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on the con­struc­tion of all new coal-fired pow­er plants.

“To sta­bi­lize our cli­mate, reduc­tions need to be based on sci­ence, not on cre­at­ing wind­fall prof­its for the world’s largest pol­luters,” said Matt Leonard. “Lead­ing sci­en­tists say deci­sive action must hap­pen now to reduce our emis­sions. How­ev­er, cor­po­rate inter­ests have stymied sub­stan­tive action and are derail­ing gen­uine efforts of civ­il soci­ety to ade­quate­ly address cli­mate change.”

The fake press release was picked up by sev­er­al media out­lets, includ­ing the Dal­las Morn­ing News, UK Hem­scott and sev­er­al blogs before jour­nal­ists real­ized that USCAP mem­bers would nev­er agree to such pro­gres­sive reduc­tions in car­bon emis­sions or a mora­to­ri­um on coal plants. Fur­ther­more, Ris­ing Tide activists have done dozens of inter­views with media and even received calls from real USCAP mem­ber com­pa­nies about the web­site and press release.

Ris­ing Tide used the pho­ny web­site www.climateactionpartnership.org to dis­trib­ute the release, which mim­ic­ked USCAP’s site, www.us-cap.org. USCAP’s mem­bers include many of the largest US cor­po­ra­tions, includ­ing Alcoa, BP, Cater­pil­lar, Cono­coPhillips, Dow, DuPont, Ford, Gen­er­al Elec­tric, Gen­er­al Motors Corp., John­son & John­son, Pep­si­Co, PG&E, Shell and Xerox.

The hoax was timed to coin­cide with the open­ing of a major Unit­ed Nations cli­mate sum­mit in Bali in an effort to expose the dis­pro­por­tion­ate influ­ence of large cor­po­ra­tions on the cli­mate nego­ti­a­tions and the lack of ini­tia­tive from cor­po­ra­tions on reduc­ing fos­sil fuel use. Ris­ing Tide said that they will now tran­si­tion the site into an archive of envi­ron­men­tal mis­deeds and human rights abus­es of USCAP’s mem­bers.

“USCAP says it is seri­ous about stop­ping cli­mate change, but these com­pa­nies have not put their mon­ey where their mouth is,” said Bri­an Sloan of Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca. “It’s time to base our poli­cies on sci­ence and the safe­ty of our com­mu­ni­ties, not on someone’s bot­tom-line.”

Ris­ing Tide is an inter­na­tion­al net­work of all vol­un­teer grass­roots activists who tar­get cor­po­ra­tions respon­si­ble both for cli­mate change and for block­ing efforts to find solu­tions to it. Activists in Aus­tralia, the U.S., Cana­da, the Unit­ed King­dom and Indone­sia par­tic­i­pat­ed in the hoax.

###

SPOOF PRESS RELEASE
For Imme­di­ate Release
Decem­ber 3, 2007

Con­tacts:
Joan Adams, Par­sons & Fis­ch­er, 202–684-8097, jadams@parsonsfischer.com
Jack Esco­bar, Par­sons & Fis­ch­er, 202–683-8451, jescobar@parsonsfischer.com

Infor­ma­tion at www.climateactionpartnership.org

MAJOR US BUSINESSES ANNOUNCE COMMITMENT TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 90%

Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Dec. 3, 2007 — The U.S. Cli­mate Action Part­ner­ship (USCAP), a con­sor­tium of 33 promi­nent busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, announced today a com­mit­ment amongst its mem­bers to a 90% reduc­tion in green­house gas emis­sions by 2050. The announce­ment was timed to coin­cide with the open­ing of a major Unit­ed Nations cli­mate sum­mit in Bali.

“In an effort to encour­age deci­sive action in Bali this week, USCAP’s mem­bers have com­mit­ted to a 90% reduc­tion in their green­house gas emis­sions by 2050,” said Matt Leop­ard, a spokesper­son for the con­sor­tium. “This com­mit­ment should send a strong mes­sage to the assem­bled coun­tries and busi­ness­es about the type of reduc­tions need­ed to stop glob­al warm­ing.”

USCAP’s mem­bers include many US mar­ket lead­ers such as Alcoa, BP, Cater­pil­lar, Cono­coPhillips, Dow, DuPont, Ford, Gen­er­al Elec­tric, Gen­er­al Motors Corp., John­son & John­son, Pep­si­Co, PG&E, Shell and Xerox. USCAP’s goal is to fur­ther pub­lic pol­i­cy that will reduce green­house gas emis­sions and pro­tect the cli­mate.

The announce­ment from USCAP’s mem­bers also includes a mid-term com­mit­ment to reduce green­house gas emis­sions 45% from 1990 lev­els by 2020. Fol­low­ing the leads of NASA’s top cli­mate sci­en­tist James Hansen, as well as bi-par­ti­san polit­i­cal lead­ers, USCAP is also call­ing for an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on the con­struc­tion of new coal-fired pow­er plants.

Toward this end, USCAP is urg­ing the US and oth­er indus­tri­al­ized nations to enact a pol­i­cy frame­work for manda­to­ry reduc­tions of green­house gas emis­sions from all sec­tors of the econ­o­my. USCAP has pro­duced a com­pre­hen­sive set of prin­ci­ples and rec­om­men­da­tions for sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly effec­tive, social­ly respon­si­ble cli­mate pol­i­cy. This doc­u­ment, titled A Call to Action1, has been released by USCAP to under­score the urgent need for a com­pre­hen­sive pol­i­cy shift on ener­gy and cli­mate.

USCAP is the first con­sor­tium of major busi­ness­es to make such a com­mit­ment in hopes that it will yield to pol­i­cy deci­sions to accel­er­ate the deploy­ment of zero-emis­sion tech­nolo­gies and ener­gy effi­cien­cy. In par­tic­u­lar, USCAP is pro­mot­ing land­mark leg­is­la­tion for a gov­ern­ment fund­ed “Sus­tain­able Job Corps.” This polit­i­cal­ly pop­u­lar pro­gram would cre­ate 5 mil­lion jobs build­ing a new pub­lic util­i­ty grid based on renew­able tech­nolo­gies, with a goal of pro­duc­ing 50% of the US ener­gy sup­ply by 2020.

“USCAP has offered a plan for the US to lead by exam­ple in efforts to pro­tect the cli­mate,” said Matt Leop­ard. “The world gov­ern­ments assem­bled in Bali this week should begin a rapid tran­si­tion to zero-emis­sion ener­gy sources and com­mit to a 90% reduc­tion from 1990 lev­els by 2050″.2

USCAP’s web­site is www.climateactionpartnership.org.

http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org

CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 74, DECEMBER 2007

CONTENTS:
———————————————-
UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
———————————————-

1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07

CONTENTS:
———————————————-
UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
———————————————-

1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07
3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY — BATH, 1.12.07
4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS — BRUSSELS, 4.12.07
5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL — UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07
6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LEEDS, 26–27.1.08
7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION — WINTER 07–08
8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING — HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18–20.1.08
9) LOW IMPACT COURSES — BUCKS, JANUARY 2008
10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? — 8.12.07
11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS — JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008
12) CONTACT VEDANTA — EMAIL ACTION
———————————————-

RECENT HAPPENINGS:
———————————————-
1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE — NORWICH, 24.11.07
2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT — 21.11.07
3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE — AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07
4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE — 28.11.07
5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT — AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07
6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA — NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07
7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION — 4.11.07
8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL — UK, NOVEMBER 07
9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST — 21.11.07
10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE — NOVEMBER 07
11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT — COLOMBIA, 29.10.07

———————————————-

UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
———————————————-

1) RT ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY, April 1st 2008
Roll up, roll up! The cli­mate cir­cus is in town. Cli­mate change threat­ens our very sur­vival, but the fools at the head of the fos­sil fuel empire con­tin­ue to plun­der the earth, with gov­ern­ments the will­ing court jesters at their side. They would have us believe that we can escape cli­mate change with tech­no-fix­es, mar­ket mech­a­nisms and off­set schemes – all tech­no­crat­ic acro­bat­ics that dis­tract us from the truth: the only real solu­tion to cli­mate change is to keep fos­sil fuels in the ground.

Find a local fos­sil fool – the coal-min­ing clown, the off­set con­tor­tion­ist, the avi­a­tor trip­ping on the high wire, the super­mar­ket food mile freak show, the oily strong man, or any oth­er fool that deserves your atten­tion – and join with thou­sands around the world in tak­ing one step clos­er to dis­man­tling the fos­sil fuel indus­try.

www.fossilfoolsday.org.uk /
www.risingtide.org.uk http://www.risingtide.org.uk/>

2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH & BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS FOR GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07

As the UN cli­mate talks take place in Bali, join peo­ple all around the world to demand urgent action to pre­vent cat­a­stroph­ic desta­bil­i­sa­tion of glob­al cli­mate.
In Lon­don, assem­ble 12 noon Mill­bank for main march. [West­min­ster Tube].
The Anti-Avi­a­tion (inc. No Run­way 3 at Heathrow) bloc meets in Vic­to­ria Gar­dens at 12

Ral­ly at US embassy 2.30pm. http://www.campaigncc.org

The Shell’s Wild Lie exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture at the Lon­don demo after-par­ty at the Syn­er­gy Cen­tre:
www.thesynergycentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=109,
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/41/2/

This will be one of many glob­al cli­mate demon­stra­tions tak­ing place on the 8th. There are actions planned in 80 coun­tries.
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org

One of the events planned in the UK is a cycle-relay of mes­sages from Tran­si­tion Towns and Cli­mate Friend­ly Vil­lages in Corn­wall to Par­lia­ment.
http://www.transitionfalmouth.org.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29

Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide are hav­ing a Cycle Cir­cus — Join a colour­ful crit­i­cal mass of peo­ple and ped­dlers of all shapes and sizes and let our cycling cir­cus upstage and reveal Bris­tol’s cli­mate crim­i­nals. Meet: Col­lege
Green, 1pm.
http://risingtide.org.uk/bristol

3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY — BATH, 1.12.07

Bath Activist Net­work are hav­ing a demo/party high­light­ing rad­i­cal alter­na­tives to envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion.

Meet at Abbey Court­yard at 11.30 am, then mov­ing through Bath say­ing hel­lo to some of our favourite plan­et trash­ers, play­ing music, shar­ing food, play­ing games and mak­ing mis­chief!
http://www.myspace.com/bathactivistnetwork

4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS — BRUSSELS, 4.12.07

The annu­al award for decep­tive, manip­u­la­tive and uneth­i­cal lob­by­ing. This year there is a spe­cial Green­wash Prize. The win­ners will be announced at a cer­e­mo­ny in Brus­sels on 4th Decem­ber.
http://www.worstlobby.eu http://www.worstlobby.eu/>

5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL — UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07

The case involves the arrest of Pen­ny, who glued her­self to the gates of the Cli­mate Camp to pre­vent re-entry by police offi­cers after mass action had per­suad­ed them to leave. Sol­i­dar­i­ty is urgent­ly request­ed for this court appear­ance. The tri­al is sched­uled to begin at Uxbridge mag­is­trates court, 10am on the 8th Jan­u­ary.
There will be a pop up cli­mate camp out­side court, more vol­un­teers are need­ed. Crash space is being organ­ised for the night before.
www.climatecamp.org.uk

6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LEEDS, 26–27.1.08

The Cli­mate Camp on its own did­n’t stop cli­mate change — but it’s part of a grow­ing social move­ment that can! Come and take the next steps for­ward at the upcom­ing UK-wide meet­ing on Jan 26–27 in Leeds. Every­one is wel­come, whether you came to the camp, or were sim­ply inspired by it.
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/nextmeeting.php

7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION — WINTER 07–08

This exhi­bi­tion address­es the envi­ron­men­tal, polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges of ris­ing sea lev­els caused by cli­mate change. The cen­tral fea­ture will be a mul­ti­me­dia video pro­jec­tion onto a giant relief mod­el of main­land Britain, where the ris­ing waters are seen to redraw the coast­line.
http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/tour/

8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING — HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18–20.1.08

Come and learn tech­niques and be inspired by pop­u­lar edu­ca­tion, share new skills and talk about how we can expand rad­i­cal edu­ca­tion net­works in UK and beyond.
http://www.trapese.org/

9) LOW IMPACT COURSES — BUCKS, JANUARY 2008

Low impact small­hold­ing / How to make biodiesel / Heat­ing with wood / Prun­ing & care of old fruit trees. For more details, see:
http://www.lowimpact.org/
http://www.lowimpact.org/course_outline_pruning_and_care_of_fruit_trees.htm>

10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? — 8.12.07

Whilst Nation­al and local gov­ern­ment have pushed for a destruc­tive Bypass to the A628 trunk road, Wood­head remains shut and alter­na­tives shut out. The own­ers of the Tun­nel, Nation­al Grid, are mov­ing to close it for good and
destroy any hope of future alter­na­tives to the car mon­ster.

A walk/bike ride is planned for Decem­ber 8th, to coin­cide with the nation­al cli­mate march, but oth­er ideas for action are most wel­come.
http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-goodbye-to-woodhead.html
http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/or>

11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS — JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008

Get involved in the cam­paign to pro­tect Tas­ma­ni­a’s old growth forests.

Don’t fly but still want to help? Then please con­sid­er hold­ing a film night or fund-rais­er, or become a mem­ber of the Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre.
http://www.huon.org/

12) CONTACT VEDANTA — EMAIL ACTION

Sol­i­dar­i­ty would be huge­ly appre­ci­at­ed as Indi­a’s Supreme Court looks like it is going to rule in favour of British min­ing cor­po­ra­tion Vedan­ta to be able to mine the Niyami­giri Hills in Oris­sa. This could lead to the death
of thou­sands of peo­ple and will set a prece­dent for the min­ing of all of Indi­a’s forests.

25,000 farm­ers are to form a human chain around one of the worlds largest dams in protest against this devel­op­ment.

Feel like con­tact­ing Vedan­ta to tell them how you feel?

By email; investorrelations@vedantaresources.com

By post; Vedan­ta Resources plc
16 Berke­ley Street
Lon­don W1J 8DZ

http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6348

———————————————-

RECENT HAPPENINGS:
———————————————-

1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE — NORWICH, 24.11.07

Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide marked Buy Noth­ing Day with a rat race. Activists cre­at­ed a mobile rat race that stopped off at the city’s busiest malls and high streets.
Peo­ple in rat cos­tumes scur­ried hith­er and thith­er through a maze built from plac­ards read­ing; Work Hard­er, Earn More Mon­ey, Buy More Things, Keep Going… Mean­while Fat Cats advised that hap­pi­ness was just around the cor­ner if the rats would only keep shop­ping!
A thou­sand leaflets were hand­ed out and many passers-by expressed their sup­port.
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/237
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html

For reports of Buy Noth­ing Day in Leeds, Lon­don, Edin­burgh and Man­ches­ter see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17851

2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT — 21.11.07

On Novem­ber 21st Lon­don Ris­ing Tide inter­rupt­ed del­e­gates at the Avi­a­tion Emis­sions Trad­ing Sum­mit, held at Sel­f­ridges Hotel, cen­tral Lon­don. Free shares for pre-Emis­sions Trad­ing Scheme atmos­phere were giv­en out to each
del­e­gate at the con­fer­ence.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html>The pro­test­ers were high­light­ing the huge risk of accel­er­at­ed cli­mate change through flights.

The ETS scheme will allow the indus­try to claim envi­ron­men­tal cre­den­tials when in fact stop­ping air­port expan­sion and reduc­ing flights is what is required. The fact that these per­mits will be auc­tioned at a bar­gain price will fur­ther add to the lack of impact that this scheme will have on the avi­a­tion indus­try.
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/node/399

3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE — AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07

Ris­ing Tide activists block­ad­ed a coal train on its way into the world’s biggest coal export port, at Koor­a­gang Island in New­cas­tle Har­bour. No trains are able to enter Koor­a­gang Coal Ter­mi­nal because of the block­ade.
“When faced with an over­whelm­ing prob­lem and a Gov­ern­ment unwill­ing or unable to take action to solve the prob­lem, it is the duty of all cit­i­zens to take action on the community’s behalf…There is no way Aus­tralia can con­tin­ue pass­ing the buck on cli­mate change. We are the biggest per capi­ta emit­ter of green­house gas­es and the biggest coal exporter in the world.”
(spokesper­son for Ris­ing Tide, Georgina Woods)
http://www.risingtide.org.au/coaltrainblockade

4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE — 28.11.07

Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­test­ers from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.
The team of pro­test­ers, wear­ing t‑shirts embla­zoned with No Third Run­way, hand­ed out copies of the Tyn­dall Cen­tre cli­mate change report about the impacts of fly­ing on glob­al warm­ing.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-disrupt-parliamentary-committee-future-baa

5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT — AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07

Green­peace activists occu­pied the Mun­morah coal-fired pow­er sta­tion today. A Green­peace activist pushed the but­ton to stop the con­vey­or belt. Now it’s time to push the emer­gency switch on all coal pow­er plants.
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/Climate-change/coal-kills-shut-down
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html>

6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA — NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07

On Sat­ur­day 24 Novem­ber, protests were held at 36 Total petrol sta­tions across the UK. The protests called upon Total Oil to pull out of Bur­ma and stop financ­ing the Burmese mil­i­tary regime. Protest loca­tions includ­ed Brad­ford, Brighton, Chatham, Cardiff, Guernsey, Lon­don, Man­ches­ter, Oxford and Vir­gina Water. Some sta­tions were block­ad­ed and all the protests received great sup­port from the motor­ing and pedes­tri­an pub­lic.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17852

Also on the 13th Novem­ber, cam­paign­ers block­ad­ed a Total garage on Oxford Road, Man­ches­ter. http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17820

7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION — 4.11.07

In the ear­ly hours of a Sun­day morn­ing, cli­mate activists made a bold state­ment about glob­al warm­ing with a ban­ner drop from a four-storey build­ing.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6352

8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL — UK, NOVEMBER 07

While the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to flare gas in Nige­ria claim­ing lack of funds, peo­ple are tak­ing action…

On the 9th, sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against Shell demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has unleashed on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17808

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Ross­port and Nige­ria, the Shell petrol sta­tion on Dal­ry Road, Edin­burgh was block­ad­ed for 2 hours on the 11th by 20 peo­ple includ­ing mem­bers of the Clown Army. The Comis­ton Shell Petrol
Sta­tion was sub­ject­ed to a night-time redec­o­ra­tion.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17805
Ross­port: Anoth­er Sea­son of Resis­tance is an excel­lent indy­media update.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386253.html

Also in the news; The Adver­tis­ing Stan­dards Agency (ASA) has upheld a com­plaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil com­pa­ny’s claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flow­ers.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/shell_advert_is_ruled_misl_01112007.html

9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST — 21.11.07

BP’s hopes of draw­ing a line under its prob­lems in the US after agree­ing a $380m (£184m) set­tle­ment with the author­i­ties have been dealt a blow by a legal chal­lenge over the fatal explo­sion at its Texas City refin­ery. An
attor­ney for vic­tims of the blast, has asked a fed­er­al judge to reject the set­tle­ment, say­ing it is “shock­ing­ly lenient”.
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/42/2/

10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE — NOVEMBER 07

Novem­ber ebul­letin from the Per­ma­cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion (Britain).
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ebulletin.php

11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT — COLOMBIA, 29.10.07

For a report on the grass-roots Tri­bunal into Cli­mate Jus­tice in Bogotá, see;
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26987&search_text=colombia

———-

Please send any­thing you’d like includ­ed in this news sheet to:
newssheet@risingtide.org.uk

To view pre­vi­ous edi­tions of the Ris­ing Tide News Sheet, vis­it the News Sheet Archive at http://risingtide.org.uk/newssheet

This News Sheet was brought to you by Ris­ing Tide, a grass­roots net­work of groups and indi­vid­u­als com­mit­ted to tak­ing action and build­ing a move­ment against cli­mate change.

For more infor­ma­tion…
email: info@risingtide.org.uk
Phone: +44 (0)845 458 8923 / +44 (0)7708 794665
Address: 62 Fieldgate St, Lon­don, E1 1ES
Web site: http://risingtide.org.uk

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO A FRIEND AND INVITE THEM TO JOIN THE LIST

To sub­scribe or unsub­scribe vis­it:
http://risingtide.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rt-news

END

Plane Stupid Disrupt Parliamentary Committee In Commons

28.11.2007
3.15pm — Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow this after­noon dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­tes­tors from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.

3rd runway parliamentary committee disrupted28.11.2007
3.15pm — Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow this after­noon dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­tes­tors from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.

The team of pro­tes­tors wore t‑shirts embla­zoned with “No Third Run­way” inter­rupt­ed the inquiry into “The future of BAA” and hand­ed out copies of a Tyn­dall Cen­tre cli­mate change report about the impacts of fly­ing on glob­al warm­ing.

Plane Stu­pid accuse the Gov­ern­ment of pre-judg­ing the deci­sion on the Third Run­way and ignor­ing recent sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence about the impacts air­port expan­sion would bring upon cli­mate change.

Activist for Plane Stu­pid, Richard George, said:

“The Gov­ern­ment are spin­ning that they want an open and thor­ough con­sul­ta­tion on expand­ing Heathrow but they’re ignor­ing mass oppo­si­tion and sci­en­tists’ warn­ings and are col­lud­ing with BAA to con­crete over pub­lic debate.”

He added:

“Despite over­whelm­ing evi­dence of the impact of car­bon emis­sions from avi­a­tion — the gov­ern­ment are delib­er­ate­ly ignor­ing con­cerns about cli­mate change. The plan for a third run­way flies in the face of the sci­ence and were it approved it would pol­lute more than the whole of Kenya!”

MORE INFORMATION/INTERVIEWS:

www.planestupid.com
press@planestupid.com

You can watch the action at:
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/VideoPlayer.aspx?meetingId=488&rel=ok