Category: Climate Chaos

Bloody report from Ballinaboy/ Rossport, Ireland

Fri­day 19th Jan­u­ary 2007.
Today a good crowd of pro­tes­tors gath­ered at the usu­al ren­dezvous, approx 60+ peo­ple. The crowd was buoyed by the pres­ence of a mem­ber of Glob­al Com­mu­ni­ty Mon­i­tor, over from the states, and a film crew trav­el­ling with him. At 7.30 peo­ple pro­ceed­ed up the road, some wear­ing white jump suits with chem­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­nants inscribed on the front, poi­sons which the Bal­linaboy ter­mi­nal would pol­lute the local area, fresh water and sea with. The crowd was lead with a large ban­ner read­ing Cor­rib Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness.

Fri­day 19th Jan­u­ary 2007.
Today a good crowd of pro­tes­tors gath­ered at the usu­al ren­dezvous, approx 60+ peo­ple. The crowd was buoyed by the pres­ence of a mem­ber of Glob­al Com­mu­ni­ty Mon­i­tor, over from the states, and a film crew trav­el­ling with him. At 7.30 peo­ple pro­ceed­ed up the road, some wear­ing white jump suits with chem­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­nants inscribed on the front, poi­sons which the Bal­linaboy ter­mi­nal would pol­lute the local area, fresh water and sea with. The crowd was lead with a large ban­ner read­ing Cor­rib Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness.

As the crowd passed over the nar­row bridge tem­pers frayed and to nobod­ies sur­prise the Gar­dai ploughed into the pro­tes­tors, shov­ing them every which way. At this point two Gar­dai held Pat’s arms while anoth­er punched him in the face sev­er­al times. Sim­i­lar­ly his broth­er Mar­tin was seri­ous­ly assault­ed, suf­fer­ing cut­ting and bruis­ing to face and eye. But as the dawn has not yet bro­ken cap­tur­ing any image of this is vir­tu­al­ly impos­si­ble, espe­cial­ly giv­en the num­ber of Gar­dai there to hide each oth­ers activ­i­ties and deny same.
It’s very hard to ascer­tain if there is any log­i­cal point to the Gar­dai activ­i­ties with regard to wad­ing in and assault­ing all around them as oth­er than to bul­ly and injure peo­ple it serves no prac­ti­cal pur­pose. Usu­al­ly their excuse for push­ing and shov­ing is to ensure your safe­ty and make sure you are on the oth­er side of the white line so none of Shells work­ers or trucks can pos­si­bly be delayed for even a sec­ond. How­ev­er as can be seen in the first pho­to some Gar­dai are near­ly on the oth­er side of the road, where there is no hard shoul­der as this is on the bridge, and still they are push­ing, shov­ing and assault­ing peo­ple.

Yes­ter­day after the Gar­dai head­ed off for their break­fasts, leav­ing the trucks to fend for them­selves, local res­i­dents blocked access to the site, hold­ing up stone trucks for a peri­od of time. Secu­ri­ty appeared to pan­ic some­what clos­ing and lock­ing the site gates before Gar­dai with out a com­mand­ing offi­cer appeared on the scene to ush­er in the stalled trucks.

Water qual­i­ty con­tin­ues to be a seri­ous issue, despite Co.Co. assur­ances that it is fine. Images below show water leav­ing the Bal­linaboy site, some clear­ly untreat­ed and look­ing very sim­i­lar to last year, sil­ver grey, when it was found to be heav­i­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed with alu­mini­um. The main out­fall area from the site looks mar­gin­al­ly bet­ter, where the water is at least sup­posed to have been treat­ed by this point, how­ev­er it is also clear­ly looks noth­ing like drink­ing water qual­i­ty and exhibits some sil­ver grey colour­ing. Despite the fact that all water leav­ing the site is sup­posed to be treat­ed before leav­ing site you can clear­ly see the water from the truck wash at Gate 3 being pumped straight into exit­ing drains.
The past 3 days have seen mem­bers of Shell to Sea hand­ing out leaflets at the Shell green­wash events in Castle­bar and Bal­li­na. Very few peo­ple attend­ed these events, and num­bers must have been dou­bled or even tre­bled by the atten­dance of 2 school groups, 1 from sec­ondary school and 1 from pri­ma­ry school, nev­er to ear­ly to start brain wash­ing.

Our own pres­ence was wel­comed by many peo­ple pass­ing by and many who did go in to see Shells expen­sive PR work were firm­ly behind the stance of Shell to Sea. As we hand­ed out infor­ma­tion leaflets and chat­ted to peo­ple 1 passer­by even went into the hotel and brought out a tray of steam­ing hot whiskeys!

Camp Bling at ‘Prittlewel King’ awards

17.01.2007

Southend ‘May­or’ can­cels F5 road widen­ing at ‘Prit­tlewell King’ award cel­e­bra­tions

The cam­paign against the con­tro­ver­sial A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent ‘F5’ road widen­ing scheme took yet anoth­er dra­mat­ic new turn tonight, when dozens of local res­i­dents ‘stormed’ a cel­e­bra­tion at the town’s Clu­ni­ac Pri­o­ry to mark Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil receiv­ing the cov­et­ed British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards 2006 ‘Current Archae­ol­o­gy Devel­op­er-Fun­der Archae­ol­o­gy Award,’ for the dis­cov­ery of the ‘King of Bling,’ in Prit­tlewell in late 2003.

17.01.2007

Southend ‘May­or’ can­cels F5 road widen­ing at ‘Prit­tlewell King’ award cel­e­bra­tions

The cam­paign against the con­tro­ver­sial A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent ‘F5’ road widen­ing scheme took yet anoth­er dra­mat­ic new turn tonight, when dozens of local res­i­dents ‘stormed’ a cel­e­bra­tion at the town’s Clu­ni­ac Pri­o­ry to mark Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil receiv­ing the cov­et­ed British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards 2006 ‘Current Archae­ol­o­gy Devel­op­er-Fun­der Archae­ol­o­gy Award,’ for the dis­cov­ery of the ‘King of Bling,’ in Prit­tlewell in late 2003.

Amid chaot­ic scenes, Coun­cil­lors and Dig­ni­taries attend­ing the cel­e­bra­tion received a speech from Southend ‘Mayor’ John Smith, who apol­o­gised on behalf of the Coun­cil for their inten­tion to destroy the East Sax­on king’s bur­ial site, promised to return the award received last Octo­ber in Birm­ing­ham, and then dra­mat­i­cal­ly announced the imme­di­ate can­cel­la­tion of the F5 road widen­ing, after hav­ing, ‘finally lis­tened to and tak­en note of the major­i­ty of peo­ple in Southend who have been shown repeat­ed­ly to oppose the scheme.’

Local res­i­dent Pat­sy Link who joined the demon­stra­tors said, ‘This award pre­sent­ed to Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil is said to cel­e­brate the mer­its of devel­op­er fund­ed archae­ol­o­gy, which in the case of the dis­cov­ery of the bur­ial has pro­vid­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty to rewrite his­to­ry. Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil now has a site to rival the Sut­ton Hoo ship bur­ial in Suf­folk, but still seeks to bury it under 10 feet of con­crete for the road widen­ing. To cel­e­brate then destroy it is noth­ing short of sheer luna­cy on the part of the peo­ple here tonight at the Priory.’

A deci­sion to fund the road widen­ing has been await­ed from the Depart­ment for Trans­port since a local Pub­lic Inquiry took place in March 2004. Infor­ma­tion from the East of Eng­land Region­al Part­ner­ship Group shows that costs have now risen to an esti­mat­ed £25m for the 870 metre length of car­riage­way, mak­ing it poten­tial­ly, ‘The most expen­sive stretch of road in the world.’

In the mean time local protest site Camp Bling still occu­pies the land above the bur­ial, 4 as it has for six­teen months since first being set up by locals in Sep­tem­ber 2005. It is rumoured that one of the deep­est protest tun­nel sys­tems ever known has since been dug to help defend the camp, and num­bers have grown sig­nif­i­cant­ly as the fund­ing deci­sion is await­ed.

Mabel Jones of Prit­tlewell said, ‘If the local Coun­cil and cen­tral Gov­ern­ment per­ceive that this cam­paign is only about a hand­ful of peo­ple against the road scheme then they need to think again and quick­ly. Tonight has shown that a large cross sec­tion of the local com­mu­ni­ty are not just against the scheme, but will active­ly attempt to stop it if the fund­ing go ahead is now given.’

 http://blingblog.bravejournal.com/

Thrupp Lake (Radley Oxfordshire) update

There were once nine lakes…

Local peo­ple have joined forces with ecol­o­gists and envi­ron­men­tal activists in a pledge to save Thrupp Lake (at Radley, near Oxford), fol­low­ing a deci­sion by Npow­er boss­es to dump 500,000 tonnes of fly-ash on to the site.

There were once nine lakes…

Local peo­ple have joined forces with ecol­o­gists and envi­ron­men­tal activists in a pledge to save Thrupp Lake (at Radley, near Oxford), fol­low­ing a deci­sion by Npow­er boss­es to dump 500,000 tonnes of fly-ash on to the site.

Thrupp lake is a nature reserve as des­ig­nat­ed by Oxford­shire Coun­ty Coun­cil, with many rare plants, insects and ani­mals includ­ing water voles and otters.

The plan is to cut down over 1,000 trees so that Npow­er can drain then fill the lake with 500,000 tonnes of tox­ic waste ash from the near­by Did­cot Pow­er Sta­tion. The waste ash is pul­verised fly-ash which can be recy­cled and used in var­i­ous build­ing prod­ucts such as cement and breeze blocks. Past study found traces of many nas­ties includ­ing Polo­ni­um 210!

Npow­er have already destroyed sev­en oth­er lakes in the imme­di­ate area. The locals have been try­ing to save the lakes for many years using all legal means and have failed. Their lat­est chal­lenge is to get the lake des­ig­nat­ed to vil­lage green sta­tus, which would save the lake. How­ev­er, Npow­er have said they will begin work BEFORE this appli­ca­tion will even be heard in court! The locals have wel­comed us with open arms to fight this along­side them.

As part of this, our group occu­pied an emp­ty prop­er­ty on the shore of the lake on Decem­ber 28th with a view to pro­tect the lake and using all non-vio­lent means to resist evic­tion (Lock-on’s and bar­ri­cades etc), whilst also open­ing the build­ing up (com­pul­sary pur­chased by Npow­er) as a field cen­ter for the study of the local ecol­o­gy.

Recent News: Npow­er took us to Coun­ty Court on 10th Jan­u­ary to gain a repos­ses­sion order to evict us, how­ev­er, they did not expect us to have such a great legal team behind us. The order for repos­ses­sion was thrown out as the papers were ille­gal­ly served to us by Npow­er! Local press
head­line was “Squatters win first roundâ€?. We are in court again Weds. 24th Jan. at the Coun­ty Court in Oxford. We have a bar­ris­ter work­ing on the case and are putting up a stiff legal defense.

At present: We are work­ing on defend­ing the build­ing and record­ing and pho­tograph­ing the local ecol­o­gy (we need proof that cer­tain species inhab­it the area as part of the defense). We are still in LEGAL pos­ses­sion of the build­ing and we have mas­sive local sup­port. The house is mas­sive and the lake is absolute­ly beau­ti­ful.

HOW YOU CAN HELP : Vis­it us! Remem­ber we are in legal pos­ses­sion and you are allowed to stay. Stay with us to defend the build­ing if we get evict­ed, or come to do some ecol­o­gy work. Bring your friends! (You may even see the Radley Lake Pen­guin!). Bring us things we need off our ‘Wish
List’. Come and sup­port us in court on the 24th – bring ban­ners etc.

Catch the train to Radley sta­tion (one stop from Oxford), and it is about a fif­teen minute walk to the site. For direc­tions ring the site mobile.
SITE MOBILE NUMBER IS: 07772 0553 384

For more infor­ma­tion see www.saveradleylakes.org.uk or check out our progress on UK Indy­media or Indy­media Oxford.

Watch the video (video/x‑msvideo 34MB)

WISH LIST
Food, Fur­ni­ture, Blan­kets, Duvets, Sleep­ing Bags, Water­proofs, Lad­ders,
Buck­ets, Kitchen knives and cut­lery, plates etc., Rope and Polyprop, Nuts,
bolts, Nails, Screws, Wire mesh, Tools, Span­ners, wrench­es, Sock­et sets,
Bot­tled Water (1 ltr), Ban­ners, Paint, Shov­el, Tim­ber for build­ing, Cable
ties, Climb­ing Carib­i­neers for lock-on’s, Chains, 45 gal­lon oil drums,
Fake ani­mal Fur (Yes thats right),Cash, YOU!

Activists stop work on gas pipe line Alltwen, Wales

16th Jan ’07 — At 9am this morn­ing a con­struc­tion site in Alltwen was stormed by activists, climb­ing cranes and lock­ing-on with d‑locks by their necks. Work was stopped on the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline for five and a half hours, adding to the list of recent delays.

Alltwen pipeline protest16th Jan ’07 — At 9am this morn­ing a con­struc­tion site in Alltwen was stormed by activists, climb­ing cranes and lock­ing-on with d‑locks by their necks. Work was stopped on the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline for five and a half hours, adding to the list of recent delays.
The pro­test­ers this morn­ing were met with aggres­sion, one had her cam­era snatched and dam­aged, whilst oth­ers were threat­ened with vio­lence. After one activist climbed a crane, locked on by his neck, the oper­a­tor of the crane then decid­ed to move the crane about, seri­ous­ly endan­ger­ing the activist’s life — watch the video (video/x‑ms-wmv 4.3MB).
Also con­struc­tion work­ers ini­tial­ly kept on using heavy machin­ery on the site despite being advised not to due to health and safe­ty rea­sons.

It is the eighth day that work has been stopped at the Tre­banos camp across the val­ley. Sup­port con­tin­ues to grow for the cam­paign with more num­bers get­ting involved dai­ly.
The pipe, to be 115 miles long rips right through wales, hav­ing dev­as­tat­ing effects on the welsh coun­try­side.
This action is just a small part of a big cam­paign to fight the pipe!
Cur­rent­ly we are occu­py­ing a pub­lic foot­path stop­ping access to the con­struc­tion site in the vil­lage of Tre­banos. We also have a house which is a safe base to do actions from.
Come to wales and be at the front line of britain’s eco-defence! Loads more actions
are planned and more sites too.
con­tact num­bers
07790450747
07733190958

Building to a critical mass, bristol

Just a reminder this is soon,
Can any­one help with putting up addi­tion­al posters? just print them out and stick them up.

Poster here; http://bristolcm.pbwiki.com/f/cmposter.doc

What
Crit­i­cal Mass is a month­ly bicy­cle ride to cel­e­brate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road.

Just a reminder this is soon,
Can any­one help with putting up addi­tion­al posters? just print them out and stick them up.

Poster here; http://bristolcm.pbwiki.com/f/cmposter.doc

What
Crit­i­cal Mass is a month­ly bicy­cle ride to cel­e­brate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road.
One Idea is to have com­par­a­tive­ly short (30–40 minute ) rides Bris­tol, hope­ful­ly this will allow us to make our point and com­mu­ni­cate effec­tive­ly with oth­er road users.

When
6:30pm on the last Fri­day of every month. Start­ing on Jan­u­ary the 26th.

Where
Start­ing out­side the Arnolfi­ni, end­ing up at the Hatch­et.

If you would like to help then read about Traf­fic tac­tics http://www.reachoutpub.com/cm/gomass.html and think about what role you can play to make the mass a safe and pos­i­tive expe­ri­ence.

* Bring plen­ty of lights and reflec­tive stuff.

* Print out 2 pages of bike strips and put them on bikes.

* Print out and bring 20 leaflets to hand out on the mass.

More Bris­tol info, maps + posters etc;
http://bristolcm.pbwiki.com/

Gen­er­al CM info:
http://www.critical-mass.info/howto/
http://www.critical-mass.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass

Pipeline protests gather strength

15.01.2007

Active oppo­si­tion is under­way against the South Wales LNG pipeline in three sep­a­rate loca­tions. Objec­tions to Nation­al Grid’s con­tro­ver­sial project are spurred by lack of con­su­la­tion, safe­ty fears, envi­ron­menal issues and cli­mate change con­cerns. Protests grow stronger day by day, sup­port­ed by long term cam­paign­ing, cre­at­ing a spir­it­ed and uni­fied resis­tance.

Pipeline flier15.01.2007

Active oppo­si­tion is under­way against the South Wales LNG pipeline in three sep­a­rate loca­tions. Objec­tions to Nation­al Grid’s con­tro­ver­sial project are spurred by lack of con­su­la­tion, safe­ty fears, envi­ron­menal issues and cli­mate change con­cerns. Protests grow stronger day by day, sup­port­ed by long term cam­paign­ing, cre­at­ing a spir­it­ed and uni­fied resis­tance.

SLOW WALKING

Today saw set­backs to the progress of the South Wales LNG Pipeline for the sec­ond week run­ning. Work was delayed at three sep­a­rate sites along the gigan­tic 115 mile route way, by a grow­ing anti-pipe move­ment. The pipeline is part of a mas­sive Nation­al Grid project to lay a 115-mile pipeline from Mil­ford Haven to Tire­ly in Glouces­ter­shire. The project has sparked con­tro­ver­sy and oppo­si­tion from the onset.

Machin­ery at Tre­banos is denied access by a protest camp upon a pub­lic foot­path. Cur­rent­ly going strong, this has halt­ed work for eight days in a row, much to the ongo­ing frus­tra­tion of Nation­al Grid offi­cials. Active oppo­si­tion first began in Tre­banos last Novem­ber with an occu­pa­tion with­in the pipe itself.

Inspired by this pro­tes­tors in Mil­ford Haven have been camped on a pub­lic foot­path right in the path of the pipe since last Novem­ber.

Mean­while at Cil­frew, res­i­dents are using a walk­ing block­ade along the access road to the site, joined by vol­un­teers from across Britain. This, backed up by a detailed knowl­edge of reg­u­la­tions and the area is prov­ing most effec­tive. Actions are con­tin­u­ing as they have every­day since Thurs­day.

Sup­port­ing writ­ten cam­paigns are at con­stant work to back up the direct actions.

Oppo­nents say their inves­ti­ga­tions have led them to the con­clu­sion that it’s pure­ly prof­it led and dan­ger­ous­ly hasty. By the Health and Safe­ty Exec­u­tive’s own admis­sion there will be a hole in this pipeline dur­ing its life­time. The volatile safe­ty risks, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate chaos are the price of Nation­al Grid being left unchecked to line their pock­ets. Cause for a sig­nif­i­cant and ever increas­ing num­ber of cit­i­zens to take action. These include local com­mu­ni­ties the length of the route, cam­paign group Safe Haven Net­work, cli­mate change groups such as Ris­ing Tide and those con­cerned with the des­e­cra­tion of mile after mile of beau­ti­ful land.

This wan­ton destruc­tion of our envi­ron­ment and our basic human rights can­not and will not be allowed to con­tin­ue. The local coun­cil turns a blind eye, hav­ing rid­den roughshod over the very peo­ple who vot­ed them in. Democ­ra­cy has van­ished into the mists. The police have become like Nation­al Grids own secu­ri­ty guards.

This is a bat­tle cry from the val­leys of Wales, come and join us, show the estab­lish­ment they can­not con­tin­ue to ignore us.

These voic­es will not die down. We grow stronger day by day, moral is high and the atmos­phere is over­whelm­ing­ly sup­port­ive. The local com­mu­ni­ty are keep­ing a very warm wel­come in the hill­sides!

Save Radley Lakes Occupation update

12.01.2007

Activists are occu­py­ing and intend to defend a squat­ted lake­side prop­er­ty in order to pre­vent the infill­ing of Radley Lakes with tox­ic ash from the burn­ing of coal at the near­by npow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

Radley Lakes - toxic ash infill12.01.2007

Activists are occu­py­ing and intend to defend a squat­ted lake­side prop­er­ty in order to pre­vent the infill­ing of Radley Lakes with tox­ic ash from the burn­ing of coal at the near­by npow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

The occu­pants intend­ed to use the prop­er­ty as envi­ron­men­tal field cen­tre with the sup­port of the local com­mu­ni­ty, where there is mas­sive local oppo­si­tion to the destruc­tion of the last two remain­ing lakes at Radley.

The lakes are unusu­al in their clar­i­ty and the area con­tains local and nation­al rare and threat­ened species, with 115 species of birds record­ed and over1000 trees sur­round­ing the lake which will be felled. How­ev­er this has been ignored by pow­er com­pa­ny RWE npow­er, and has been rail-road­ed through by Oxford­shire Coun­ty Coun­cil.

Npow­er took the group to court last Wednes­day but failed to get them evict­ed, but will they try again this Wednes­day 17th and are like­ly to be suc­cess­ful.

But unde­terred the group are lock­ing on and dig­ging in prepa­ra­tion to defend the field cen­tre and pre­vent the destruc­tion of the lakes.

How­ev­er they are bad­ly in need of peo­ple and equip­ment to help with the defence. If you can sup­port the group or donate equip­ment such as wood, ply board, plas­tic sheet­ing, elec­tri­cal tools, build­ing sand, bal­last, shov­els, spades, chain, locks car­bines, poly-prop rope, cable ties, nuts, bolts screws, nails, con­tact adhe­sive, fake fur? and oh yea food con­tact the site on 07772055384, loca­tion OX14 3NG, a 15 minute walk from Radley Sta­tion.
 http://www.saveradleylakes.org.uk/index.htm

Stick this in your Pipe and smoke it — Latest updates on South Wales anti-LNG pipeline campaign.

11.01.2007

Today a rolling block­ade by local activists stops work.
Work stopped by pro­test­ers for the fourth day.

Pipeline placards on demo11.01.2007

Today a rolling block­ade by local activists stops work.
Work stopped by pro­test­ers for the fourth day.

In Tre­banos, near Swansea, local activists and cli­mate action groups have been stop­ping work on the huge LNG pipeline cur­rent­ly being con­truct­ed there, and planned to stretch from Pem­brokeshire to Glouces­ter.

A camp was estab­lished ear­ly on mon­day morn­ing occu­py­ing part of a pub­lic foot­path and block­ing access to one of the work sites.

TODAY, in near­by Cil­frew, a rolling block­ade stopped work on the site of the Pres­sure Reduc­tion Sta­tion.

A dis­used pub, near the route of the pipe has been squat­ted, and renamed the Pipe and Slip­pers, the own­er has now giv­en per­mis­sion for activists to stay there as sup­port for the camp.

Local resis­tance to the pipe is enor­mous. More peo­ple are need­ed all the time. Plen­ty of scope for all kinds of action. Food and places to stay are plen­ty­full. Come and get involoved.

For more infor­ma­tion on this campaign:07733 190958

STOP E$$O DAY! 5–6th April

24 hour protest at the offices of Esso called by Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change. www.campaigncc.org and oth­er envi­ron­men­tal groups/

STOP ESSO!
EXPOSE EXXON DAY
24 hours of protest at Exxon (Esso) HQ, 5.00 pm Thurs­day 5th April to 5.00 pm

24 hour protest at the offices of Esso called by Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change. www.campaigncc.org and oth­er envi­ron­men­tal groups/

STOP ESSO!
EXPOSE EXXON DAY
24 hours of protest at Exxon (Esso) HQ, 5.00 pm Thurs­day 5th April to 5.00 pm
Good Fri­day, April 6th
Mass Action 2.00 pm Fri­day
For trans­port from Cardiff to this event, email this address
FAT CATS PARTY
Cli­mate Vic­tims’ Vig­il
Music, Street The­atre, Work­shops, Speak­ers to be announced…..
“CLIMATE DISINFORMATION IS GENOCIDE”

Come and tar­get the ulti­mate Glob­al Warm­ing Vil­lain

April 5th is the day of the release of the “Cli­mate Impacts” sec­tion of the new IPRCC (UN pan­el of sci­en­tists’) Report. Exxon­Mo­bil (trad­ing under the name “Esso” in the UK) Head­quar­ters is South of Lon­don, about 20–30 min­utes walk from Leather­head Rail­way sta­tion (trains from Water­loo). It is North of Leather­head, just inside the M25. For loca­tion see the map here:
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=518050&y=156725&z=4&sv=518050,156725&st=4&ar=Y&dn=856
or for a more close-up map see here :
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=517750&y=156750&z=1&sv=517750,156750&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=516841&ay=156108

More details as they become avail­able :  http://www.campaigncc.org
PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL AROUND TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE

Exxon is the ulti­mate Glob­al Warm­ing Villain…….

Exxon is the world’s largest oil com­pa­ny, mak­ing $ 1,000+ a sec­ond, and the high­est annu­al prof­its for a com­pa­ny ever, in 2005 ($ 36 billion)…….

Exxon has used its vast wealth to back the Bush admin­is­tra­tion in the US. It has used the influ­ence that that buys it to ensure that the US con­tin­ues to block progress towards an inter­na­tion­al emis­sions reduc­tion treaty – the only real­is­tic way to bring down the glob­al total of green­house gas emis­sions and pre­vent the cat­a­stroph­ic desta­bil­i­sa­tion of glob­al climate…………………….

Exxon funds a vari­ety of right wing, neo-lib­er­al, think tanks like the “Com­pet­i­tive Enter­prise Insti­tute” which lob­by against action to fight cli­mate change, and are influ­en­tial in shap­ing Repub­li­can par­ty policy………

Exxon is the com­pa­ny most close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the cli­mate and ener­gy poli­cies of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion in the US, which are iden­ti­cal to those rec­om­mend­ed by Exxon……….

Exxon has run a cyn­i­cal cam­paign of dis­in­for­ma­tion on cli­mate change, fund­ing a pro­fes­sion­al “denial indus­try” that has – in all prob­a­bil­i­ty — delayed effec­tive glob­al action on cli­mate change by years……………….Some ele­ments of that “indus­try” are iden­ti­cal to those pre­vi­ous­ly fund­ed by the Tobac­co indus­try to under­mine the sci­ence that proved the health dam­age done by smok­ing…..
Exxon has a delib­er­ate pol­i­cy to con­fuse the sci­ence of cli­mate change, exag­ger­ate uncer­tain­ties and under­mine the sci­en­tif­ic con­sen­sus. It funds the tiny minor­i­ty of odd­ball sci­en­tists who ques­tion glob­al warm­ing so that they get huge­ly dis­pro­por­tion­ate media expo­sure and appear to rep­re­sent a sub­stan­tial body of respectable sci­en­tif­ic opinion………

Exxon was even con­demned, in Sep­tem­ber 2006, by the Roy­al Soci­ety for fund­ing bogus science……

Exxon asked the White­house (in a let­ter pub­lished in the New York Times) to remove Bob Wat­son (whose views they did­n’t like) from chair­man­ship of the IPCC (the UN pan­el of cli­mate sci­en­tists) and the White­house did just that…………….

Exxon rec­om­mend­ed that Har­lan Wat­son be appoint­ed as the US chief nego­tia­tor at the UN Cli­mate Talks and the White­house did just that. Wat­son has been wreck­ing the nego­ti­a­tions ever since…………….

Exxon mar­gin­al­ly soft­ened its anti-envi­ron­men­tal stance after the retire­ment of Lee Ray­mond as CEO (now employed by Bush to pro­duce a report giv­ing advice on future ener­gy pol­i­cy !) but con­tin­ues to fund cli­mate dis­in­for­ma­tion and remains the main­stay of the lob­by­ing machine against action on cli­mate – not only in the USA but also Europe – see, eg, this arti­cle from the Inde­pen­dent from Decem­ber 2006 at
 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2054654.ece

It funds the “Inter­na­tion­al Pol­i­cy Net­work” to argue against action on cli­mate in the UK.
Exxon……etc…etc… ( see fur­ther our web­site  http://www.campaigncc.org/stopexxon.html
US anti-Exxon coali­tion  http://www.exxposeexxon.com/ detailed analy­sis  http://www.exxonsecrets.org/ )

As ever more peo­ple die in droughts, floods and hur­ri­canes — and the world hur­tles ever faster towards cli­mate cat­a­stro­phe — we can­not afford a com­pa­ny that acts the way that Exxon­Mo­bil does….

CardiffCCC@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.campaigncc.org

New camp set up on route of National Grid’s monster gas pipeline in Wales

9.01.2007

Yes­ter­day (Mon­day 8th) a small camp was set-up across a pub­lic foot­path (in tre­banos, wales) when con­struc­tion work­ers tried to resume work on the gas pipe line. Peo­ple are also occu­py­ing the pipe, and all work has been stopped. The camp can­not be removed as it has been set-up on a pub­lic foot­path. We need peo­ple URGENTLY, to sup­port the small camp, do direct actions on oth­er con­sturction work, occu­py pipes, and to be part of future plans to fight the pipe across wales.

9.01.2007

Yes­ter­day (Mon­day 8th) a small camp was set-up across a pub­lic foot­path (in tre­banos, wales) when con­struc­tion work­ers tried to resume work on the gas pipe line. Peo­ple are also occu­py­ing the pipe, and all work has been stopped. The camp can­not be removed as it has been set-up on a pub­lic foot­path. We need peo­ple URGENTLY, to sup­port the small camp, do direct actions on oth­er con­sturction work, occu­py pipes, and to be part of future plans to fight the pipe across wales.

call 07743495582 and find out how you can get involved.
local group web­site with infor­ma­tion on the pipe: www.safehavenforum.co.uk

PRESS RELEASE — 8TH JANUARY 2007

NO EMBARGO
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A coali­tion of local peo­ple and cli­mate action groups, includ­ing Safe­haven and Ris­ing Tide have returned to the route of Nation­al Grid’s mon­ster gas pipeline. They have set up camp on pub­lic foot­paths lead­ing into the con­struc­tion site off Glyn Meirch road, Tre­banos, and are block­ing vehi­cles from gain­ing access. They are back to halt work to stop the destruc­tion of coun­try­side, com­mu­ni­ties and cli­mate.

Mil­ford Haven is today under armed guard due to the threat of ter­ror­ism. Yet this pipeline will com­mit us to anoth­er thir­ty years of fuelling a cause of ter­ror­ism: West­ern cor­po­ra­tions tak­ing coun­tries gas to expand con­sump­tion and their prof­its.

This pipeline will also con­tribute to anoth­er form of ter­ror­ism: cli­mate change. The effects of cli­mate chance on peo­ple are going to be cat­a­stroph­ic yet the gov­ern­ment is con­tin­u­ing to live in the “Carbon Dinosaurâ€? era by refus­ing to move on from fos­sil fuels.

The Stern Report said that we need to reduce green­house gas emis­sions dras­ti­cal­ly and soon or face run­away cli­mate change. A spokesper­son for Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide said “Building the pipe is a step in exact­ly the wrong direc­tion. The £700 mil­lion it will cost could be spent on renew­ables and ener­gy effi­cien­cy. We will take sus­tained direct action to stop it, tak­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for our lives and our future. â€?

Here in South Wales, Nation­al Quid have been bull­doz­ing their way through com­mu­ni­ties and land­scapes, show­ing con­tempt for both. Safe­ty issues have been ignored and con­sul­ta­tion has been a farce.

As a result of the pre­vi­ous protest, a vic­to­ry was won and the Nation­al Grid were forced to stop blast­ing. How­ev­er locals are still very con­cerned about the risk of an avalanche, sim­i­lar to those of Aber­fan and Pan­teg, as the pipe is being built on old mine work­ings.

Fur­ther­more, the Health and Safe­ty Exec­u­tive have said it is guar­an­teed that a hole will appear with­in the next thir­ty years in the pipeline.

It has been proven that this pipeline is not required for UK gas needs by DrRichard Fur­ness, an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised gas pipeline expert.

We are here to revent the wan­ton destruc­tion of our coun­try­side and our basic human rights, as well as to safe­guard those of future gen­er­a­tions. We are demand­ing that this pipeline project is scrapped.

For fur­ther details

Rachel Evans 07790450747
Site Phone 07733 190958