New £15.8m GlaxoSmithKline Laboratory “Completely Destroyed”

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Sep­tem­ber 14th, 2014

A £15 mil­lion wood­en chem­istry lab­o­ra­to­ry will con­tin­ue to burn for a fur­ther 24 hours, fire­fight­ers con­firmed today.

The Car­bon Neu­tral Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry at Not­ting­ham Uni­ver­si­ty was destroyed after it sev­er­al fires broke out inside the state-of-the-art build­ing on Fri­day night.

The lab­o­ra­to­ry, which was part-fund­ed by a £12 mil­lion grant from phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny Glax­o­SmithK­line was due to open for the first time next year.

Not­ting­hamshire Fire and Res­cue Ser­vice were called to the scene at 8.30pm after res­i­dents spot­ted the blaze…

…The build­ing was designed to reach car­bon neu­tral sta­tus in 25 years to make up the ener­gy expend­ed dur­ing its con­struc­tion.

‘The Glax­o­SmithK­line Car­bon Neu­tral Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry is a land­mark build­ing which is the embod­i­ment of the University’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty in all its forms, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the area of green chem­istry and we will be work­ing close­ly with our part­ners at GSK, and the con­trac­tors Mor­gan Sin­dall, to devel­op a pos­i­tive plan of action for rebuild­ing.’

It is not yet known what caused the blaze and a spokesper­son for NFRS said work to estab­lish the cause of the blaze can only begin ful­ly once the fire is entire­ly out.

 

source: the dai­ly heil

No-one was injured and no oth­er build­ings were affect­ed

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Protesters Locks Down on Kinder Morgan Facility (Canada)

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Ris­ing Tide Coast Sal­ish Ter­rior­ies reports that pro­test­ers have used bicy­cle locks to lock them­selves to a Kinder Mor­gan facil­i­ty in Burn­a­by, in unced­ed Coast Sal­ish Ter­ri­to­ries in so-called British Colum­bia.

Kinder Mor­gan has begun sur­vey­ing and cut­ting trees in con­ser­va­tion and park­land on Burn­a­by Moun­tain, unced­ed Coast Sal­ish Ter­ri­to­ries. The giant US oil pipeline com­pa­ny plans to clear park­land in prepa­ra­tion for bor­ing a tun­nel through the North­ridge of Burn­a­by Moun­tain con­trary to city bylaws.

The pur­pose of the tun­nel will be to trans­port crude tar sands oil from the stor­age tanks at For­est Hill to Westridge Ter­mi­nal. Many geol­o­gists and seis­mol­o­gists are con­cerned that the North­ridge will be sub­ject to extreme shak­ing in the event of even a mod­er­ate earth­quake putting at risk the pipeline, the huge oil stor­age tanks at For­est Hill and the Afra­max tankers at Westridge ter­mi­nal. A mod­er­ate earth­quake to the huge tanks, pipeline and ter­mi­nal would make the 2007 pipeline spill at Westridge minor in com­par­i­son.

The pro­test­ers, at the time of writ­ing, were still locked to the gate.

Update: Six peo­ple were arrest­ed after thir­teen hours locked-down and sub­se­quent­ly released.

For updates on the sit­u­a­tion check @risingtide604

 

Cor­rec­tion: We mis­tak­en­ly report­ed that this was a Ris­ing Tide Coast Sal­ish Ter­ri­to­ries action.

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First Nations Protesters Shut Down Northern B.C. Drilling Site

10/9/14

After a sum­mer of protests aimed at min­ing com­pa­nies, mem­bers of the Tahltan Nation in north­ern B.C. say they have shut down an explorato­ry drilling oper­a­tion by tak­ing over the site.

“HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!!!!” states a Mon­day night post­ing on the Face­book page for Tahltan elders. “The Klabona Keep­er mem­bers are occu­py­ing a black hawk drill pad above Ealue Lake!!!”

The elders’ group, which is based in Iskut just south of Dease Lake, has staged sev­er­al protests in the area in recent years block­ing resource com­pa­nies from work­ing in a place known as the Sacred Head­wa­ters. The region is high­ly val­ued by the Tahltan because it holds the head­wa­ters of three impor­tant salmon rivers – the Stikine, Skeena and Nass.

Rho­da Quock, a spokes­woman for the Klabono Keep­ers, said Tues­day a group of pro­test­ers hiked to the remote drill site and took it over.

She said Black Hawk Drilling Ltd., a Smithers, B.C., com­pa­ny that works for Firesteel Resources Inc. of Van­cou­ver and OZ Min­er­als of Aus­tralia, flew its drilling crew out after the occu­pa­tion began.

Protests against the mine explo­ration work began in 2006-07, said Ms. Quock, when Firesteel Resources began exam­in­ing a cop­per-gold deposit in the Sacred Head­wa­ters region.

The Klabona Keep­ers set up road­blocks at that time and the com­pa­ny with­drew, before return­ing ear­li­er this sum­mer, she said.

“In July … we saw drilling equip­ment near the road,” she said. “We told them they had until noon to remove the drill or we’d take it over. And they did [remove the equip­ment].”

But Ms. Quock said heli­copters were lat­er seen fly­ing over­head.

Com­pa­ny offi­cials could not be reached for an inter­view, but on its web­site, Firesteel Resources states that in July it began work­ing with OZ Min­er­als on a drilling pro­gram in the area.

In a brief e‑mail, Michael Hep­worth, Pres­i­dent and chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of Firesteel Resources, said the drilling crew has approval to do explorato­ry drilling.

“We are work­ing in the area under [Tahltan Cen­tral Coun­cil] approval and are ful­ly per­mit­ted by the B.C. gov­ern­ment to work in the area,” said Mr. Hep­worth, who is trav­el­ling out­side Cana­da.

Although the Tahltan Cen­tral Coun­cil is the main gov­ern­ing body of the Tahltan Nation, the Klabona Keep­ers oper­ate inde­pen­dent­ly. The two groups are some­times at odds, but gen­er­al­ly sup­port one anoth­er.

Chad Day, recent­ly elect­ed Pres­i­dent of the Tahltan Cen­tral Coun­cil, could not be reached for com­ment.

David Haslam, a spokesman for the Min­istry of Mines, said in an e‑mail that Firesteel Resources “has all the nec­es­sary tenures and per­mits” it needs and the gov­ern­ment is work­ing with the Tahltan Cen­tral Coun­cil “to devel­op a shared vision for land and resource use.”

Mr. Haslam urged “every­one to remain respect­ful of one anoth­er on the ground while we seek a res­o­lu­tion to the sit­u­a­tion with the Klabona Keep­ers.”

Ms. Quock said mem­bers of the Klabona Keep­ers hiked through the moun­tains on the week­end look­ing for remote drill sites.

“They found the drill, the spill tray on it was over­flow­ing with oil and water,” she said. “We shut the drill down. They are stay­ing there and they are not allow­ing the drill to leave.”

Asked what mes­sage she want­ed to deliv­er, she said: “We want them out. Why are they con­tin­u­ing to put more mon­ey in to a project that will always be protest­ed? We will nev­er approve it.”

The Klabona Keep­ers block­ad­ed Impe­r­i­al Met­als’ Red Chris mine in August because of con­cerns about a tail­ings pond, but stopped the protest when talks began between the com­pa­ny and the Tahltan Cen­tral Coun­cil. Last year, the group blocked For­tune Min­er­als Ltd. from doing work on a coal deposit. On Mon­day, the B.C. gov­ern­ment announced a tem­po­rary hold on coal explo­ration per­mits in the area.

“I don’t want peo­ple to get the impres­sion we’re against all devel­op­ment. We’re not. But these places are sacred and we want to keep it [untouched],” said Ms. Quock.

Klabona Keep­er web­site

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Wetlands destruction and resistance

#TESTET #ZAD

#TESTET #ZAD

About an hour’s dri­ve north of Toulouse (sw France)  there is an area of wet­lands called the Testet, in the for­est of #Sivens . This is the last area of wet­lands (“Zone Humide” in French) in the depart­ment of the Tarn. It is home to rare and endan­gered species.

This area (13hectares) will be drowned by a dam. The pur­pose of the dam is prin­ci­pal­ly to irri­gate large-scale maize pro­duc­tion.

It will also be used to reg­u­late the lev­els of water in the riv­er Tescou, so that pol­lu­tion will be dilut­ed and the local author­i­ties can claim to respect Euro­pean envi­ron­ment leg­is­la­tion. The water can also be used if dif­fi­cul­ties arrive at the Golfech nuclear reac­tor.

Maize pro­duc­tion is not appro­pri­ate to this region, it is a high­ly pol­lut­ing form of agri­cul­ture. Euro­pean and French rules say that it should no longer receive sub­si­dies. (Dam financed by local, region­al and Euro­pean bud­gets)

The pro­ject­ed dam is not nec­es­sary, small­er, high­er dams exist upstream, and are not used.

The stud­ies of water avail­abil­i­ty and use, of the cost, impact and of the need for the dam are flawed and par­tial. (Local politi­cians who favour the project have inter­ests in the com­pa­ny which pro­duced the stud­ies — which just hap­pens to be the com­pa­ny which will pock­et the mon­ey for build­ing the dam.…)

Claims about the need to dilute indus­tri­al pol­lu­tion down­stream are non­sense: the milk coop­er­a­tive which used to pump efflu­ent into the Tescou has had fil­ters since 2006.

Envi­ron­men­tal­ists have been defend­ing the wet­lands for almost a year. Log­ging start­ed on the 1st of sep­tem­ber, the army and mil­i­tary police corps have com­mit­ed acts of vio­lence against non-vio­lent pro­tes­tors.

A hunger strike is in progress.

Hun­dreds of dam oppo­nents are active on the site ( block­ing roads, slow­ing the chain­saws, nego­ci­at­ing and demon­strat­ing). Oth­er activists are demon­strat­ing in front of local gov­erne­ment offices (and being sav­age­ly beat­en for their efforts)

Calls for the pub­lic to show oppo­si­tion to this unnec­es­sary and destruc­tive project are online.

Wel­come groups exist for par­tic­i­pants in direct action. The strug­gle is grad­u­al­ly grow­ing, all and any help is need­ed. Sad­ly, at the time of writ­ing the GIGN (spe­cial forces) are clear­ing resis­tance from the Zone.

Futher info:

http://collectif-testet.org/

http://tantquilyauradesbouilles.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/SoutienTestet

Verdict Handed Down for Six Sea Shepherd Volunteers on Faroe Islands

9.9.14

9.9.14

Vol­un­teers from Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Society’s pilot whale defense cam­paign Oper­a­tion Grind­Stop 2014 appeared before a court in the Faroe Islands on Mon­day fol­low­ing their recent arrest in con­junc­tion with try­ing to pre­vent the mur­der of pilot whales. These vol­un­teer crewmem­bers – many of whom are Euro­pean cit­i­zens – have been found guilty of defend­ing the whales, while Den­mark has act­ed in bla­tant defi­ance of Euro­pean Union reg­u­la­tions by defend­ing the slaugh­ter of whales. Sea Shep­herd has issued a state­ment per­tain­ing to the ver­dicts and sup­port­er and actor Mar­tin Sheen is speak­ing out.

The six mem­bers of Sea Shepherd’s onshore team were among a total of 14 vol­un­teers arrest­ed on August 30 on the Faroese island of San­doy for attempt­ing to pro­tect 33 pilot whales from the bru­tal mass slaugh­ter known as “grindadrap” or the “grind.” The onshore crewmem­bers entered the water, bang­ing poles, in an attempt to lead the pilot whales back out to sea and out of dan­ger, but as the pod was dri­ven in quick­ly from close to shore, there was lit­tle time to pre­vent the slaugh­ter. The Roy­al Dan­ish Navy arrest­ed Sea Shepherd’s off­shore crew and seized three of their small boats – the Loki, the Mike Gale­si, and the B.S. Sheen (spon­sored by actor Char­lie Sheen). Despite being an anti-whal­ing EU mem­ber nation, Den­mark act­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the whalers, enabling 33 whales to be killed.

The onshore crewmem­bers face small fines as well as pos­si­ble depor­ta­tion from the Faroes by Den­mark. The court date for the eight mem­bers of the off­shore crew has been sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 25, and Sea Shepherd’s three small boats will be held “as evi­dence” until that time.

Read more at SeaShepherd.org

Direct actions against open cast mines in germany 2014 – mobilisation for a big blockade/action simultaneous to the COPs in Paris in 2015

On the 1st of August this year sev­er­al actions took place against brown coal min­ing in the rhineland in ger­many.

On the 1st of August this year sev­er­al actions took place against brown coal min­ing in the rhineland in ger­many.

One of the biggest open cast mines of europe are locat­ed in the mid­west of ger­many. Near to Cologne RWE, the biggest ener­gy provider of ger­many runs three open cast mines with an area of 160 km². With an emis­sion of ca. 100 mil­lion CO2 per year RWE is the biggest emit­tent of CO2 in whole Europe. Enough Prof­it for the high­ly indept­ed enter­prise, the loss of nat­ur­al resources for mil­lions of peo­ple of the glob­al south

The local con­se­quences of the brown-coal-minig are desas­trous. High­ly fer­tile soil gets digged away. Tens of thou­sands of peo­ple get reset­tled. Impor­tant ecosys­tems like the ham­bach for­est get cut down. To pre­vent the mines from flood­ing the ground­wa­ter gets pumped down. The neg­a­tive effects for the agri­cul­ture and wet­lands can be locat­ed even in the nether­lands which are ca. 60 km away. The grit and fine dust which are pro­duced by the biggest dig­gers of the world, which work 24/7 includes even radioac­tive par­ti­cles.

There was Resis­tance against the gigan­tic project for the whole time of RWEs eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty since the begin­ning of 1900. Some­times big­ger some­times small­er the resis­tance more­over col­laps­es because of the pow­er RWE devel­ops with lob­by­ism, cor­rup­tion and the under­cut­ting of admin­is­tra­tions, courts and local social com­mu­ni­ties.

For about 4 years a con­stant­ly grow­ing grass­rootsmove­ment tries to pow­er up the resis­tance against the pow­er gen­er­a­tion of coal on a local and nation­wide scale. With con­stant crys­talli­sa­tion points like the ham­bach for­est occu­pa­tion and a house project in the area, with cli­mate camps and help­ing to empow­er the local resis­tance move­ment with sup­port­ing cit­i­zen ini­tia­tives.

 

Embed­ded in the cli­mate camp this year a pow­er­ful action day took place.

The coal train which trans­ports the coal from the ham­bach open cast mine to the pow­er plant was blocked two times. On the the first block­ade chained them­selves to the rails of the coal train which trans­ports the coal of the mine called ham­bach to the pow­er plant and the sec­ond time two peo­ple roped down from a bridge above the rails.

Near­ly at the same time about 80 peo­ple moved the oth­er big mine Garzweil­er to block the infra­struc­ture. 2 Dig­gers were blocked 3 times with lock-on-actions and squattings.From 8 o’clock in the morn­ing to 10 in the evening the dri­vers of the dig­gers and the oth­er per­son­al in the mine had no calm minute.

It seems that more and more peo­ple want to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for them­selves to pro­tect ecosys­tems and nat­ur­al resources and begin to stop the worst effects of cli­mate change with direct actions against fos­sil infra­struc­ture.

 

Pho­tos of the action day:

Lock-on-action and climb­ing action (with oth­er pho­tos of the ham­bach for­est occu­pa­tion)

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Block­ade of dig­gers:

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Mobil­i­sa­tion for a big infra­struc­ture block­ade simul­ta­ne­ous­ly to the COP21

Accord­ing to the next COP-meet­ing in Paris 2015 we want to invite peo­ple from all over europe to think about what to do. As we don’t want to have such a big depres­sion after the COPs 2009 in Copen­hagen again there is a ten­den­cy to organ­ise a big block­ade of infra­struc­ture of fos­sil fuel ener­gy pro­duc­tion simul­ta­ne­ous­ly some­where cen­tral­ly locat­ed in Europe. If you have ideas and want to dis­trib­ute them you can come to Cologne/Germany from the 3rd to the 5th of octo­bre. There will be acco­mo­da­tion and board.

Eng­lish call­out for the action ple­nary:

http://ekib.blogsport.eu/2014/08/23/invitation-action-plenary-meeting‑3–5‑oct-2014-in-cologne/

 

 

Earth First!

An activist from ausgeco2hlt

 

Unfor­tu­nate­ly the web­sites are not in eng­lish or the eng­lish blogs are not well oper­at­ed

www.ausgeco2hlt.de

www.hambacherforst.blogsport.de / http://hambachforest.blogsport.de/

http://ekib.blogsport.eu/

www.klimacamp-im-rheinland.de

 

 

Round-up of fracking protests, after Reclaim the Power

18.8.14

Cuadrilla office occu­pa­tion
 
On Mon­day 18th at 12:00am a group of eleven activists from the Reclaim the Pow­er camp near Black­pool occu­pied frack­ing com­pa­ny Cuadrilla’s north­ern head­quar­ters.
Sev­er­al mem­bers of the group have since secured them­selves in place in the foy­er of the build­ing using plas­tic “arm tubes”. Two activists each insert an arm into oppo­site ends of the same pipe, “lock­ing on” to each other’s hands in var­i­ous ways. They intend to remain in the office until they are removed by police.
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Cuadrilla PR com­pa­ny PPS occu­pied by cam­paign­ers in Man­ches­ter — “Tak­ing the PPS!”
 
Anti-frack­ing activists from Reclaim the Pow­er staged a protest out­side the Char­lotte Street, Man­ches­ter, offices of Polit­i­cal Plan­ning Ser­vices (PPS), the con­tro­ver­sial PR firm cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ing Cuadrilla. The offices had been closed in appar­ent antic­i­pa­tion of a poten­tial protest.

Six pro­test­ers dressed in tox­ic haz­ard suits talked to to passers-by and office work­ers who share the PPS build­ing about the envi­ron­men­tal dan­gers of frack­ing, fuel pover­ty, and the government’s recent report, show­ing that a reliance on fos­sil fuels would lead to a rise in domes­tic fuel bills over the next four decades, in con­trast to a focus on sus­tain­able ener­gy, which would lead to low­er bills.

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Sal­ford ban­ner drop
 
Anti-frack­ing cam­paign­ers from Sal­ford have hung a ban­ner from a bridge at Sal­ford Media City as part of a day of action by Reclaim the Pow­er. The ban­ner states that 884,000 gal­lons of radioac­tive frack­ing water has been dumped into the Man­ches­ter Ship Canal.
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Bank die-in
 
A group of activists have just staged a “die-in” at the Black­pool branch of HSBC, the bank pro­vid­ing its ser­vices to Cuadrilla.  Our activists stag­ing the “die-in” are wear­ing T‑shirts with their very own HSBC acronym — ‘Help­ing Shaft Black­pool’s Com­mu­ni­ty!’
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Reclaim the Pow­er activists take action against coun­cil­lors and haulage com­pa­ny in order to high­light dis­rup­tion from frack­ing to local com­mu­ni­ties and the envi­ron­ment
 
At 7:50 this morn­ing a group of anti-frack­ing cam­paign­ers from the Reclaim the Pow­er camp in Black­pool vis­it­ed the homes of local coun­cil­lors with vest­ed inter­ests in sup­port­ing frack­ing in Lan­cashire.
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Frack­ing haulage com­pa­ny block­ad­ed
At 8:00 a sep­a­rate group of activists set up a block­ade of the Total Envi­ron­men­tal Tech­nol­o­gy premis­es out­side of Hull in East York­shire. The activists, includ­ing York­shire locals, glued the doors closed in order to shut down the site. A haulage com­pa­ny used by Cuadrilla and the frack­ing indus­try, Total Envi­ron­men­tal Tech­nol­o­gy lor­ries are cur­rent­ly being used to remove waste and used frack­ing chem­i­cals – “frack flu­ids” – from live sites.
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Rath­lin Ener­gy frack­ing site block­ad­ed at Craw­ber­ry Hill – Secu­ri­ty Guards use extreme and bru­tal force against pro­tes­tors

This morn­ing, a group of cam­paign­ers have occu­pied and shut down a new frack­ing site at Craw­ber­ry Hill, East York­shire.  Three pro­tes­tors are locked and and two are super­glued onto the out­side gate.  Secu­ri­ty guards have used bru­tal and dis­pro­por­tion­ate force, in one case, pulling an old­er woman with so much force that they grabbed her shirt and exposed her body and pour­ing water over pro­tes­tors. The protest fol­lows a num­ber of safe­ty breach­es com­mit­ted by Rath­lin Ener­gy at near­by West New­ton drilling site.   A num­ber of local res­i­dents are on site, show­ing their sup­port for the protest.

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IGas HQ occu­pied by pro­test­ers

15 Cam­paign­ers from Bal­combe, Bar­ton Moss and across the coun­try have block­ad­ed both entrances to the iGas head­quar­ters, 7 Down Street, West­min­ster, Lon­don, W1J 7AJ. Police have arrived at the site along­side secu­ri­ty, but look unlike­ly to act soon.

IGas were respon­si­ble for explorato­ry drilling at Bar­ton Moss. The drilling saw over 6 months of local protests.

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Protest

 

 

 

 

Swansea Uni­ver­si­ty Bay Cam­pus shut down by res­i­dents and stu­dents cam­paign­ing against Frack­ing research

Today at 6am, as part of the Reclaim the Pow­er camp, con­cerned res­i­dents from Swansea, stu­dents and grad­u­ates, dressed as mad sci­en­tists, shut down con­struc­tion of Swansea University’s Bay Cam­pus.

There are two pro­tes­tors locked on, one up a tri­pod and a num­ber of the group are inside the site and have dropped a ban­ner which says ‘No Frack­ing’. Out­side the site the ban­ner reads ‘Dim Ffra­cio’. The pro­test­ers were angered by tens of mil­lions of pub­lic mon­ey being fun­nelled into research on frack­ing via Swansea University’s new Ener­gy Safe­ty Research Insti­tute.

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Frack­ing pro­test­ers occu­py DEFRA

Cam­paign­ers from the Reclaim the Pow­er camp at Black­pool are this morn­ing occu­py­ing the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­ment, Food and Rur­al Affairs (DEFRA) in Lon­don, fol­low­ing the release of a gov­ern­ment report released last week con­tain­ing 63 redac­tions on the poten­tial impacts of shale gas explo­ration on rur­al com­mu­ni­ties. The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police are already onsite at DEFRA.

 At 8am three activists super­glued them­selves to the doors of DEFRA’s main entrance and deployed rein­forced arm tubes to pre­vent access. Two activists each insert an arm into oppo­site ends of the same pipe, “lock­ing on” to each other’s hands in var­i­ous ways. Anoth­er activist climbed the build­ing and unfurled a ban­ner read­ing: ‘WHAT’S TO HIDE DEFRA? – DON’T FRACK WITH OUR FUTURE’.  Some of the activists wore black tape across their mouths, high­light­ing the vital infor­ma­tion which blacked out in the report.

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Fam­i­lies’ Radioac­tive response to frack­ing

At 6.45am this morn­ing, a num­ber of fam­i­lies and their chil­dren placed 88 ‘atoms’ of Radi­um around Lytham as a tem­po­rary art instal­la­tion to high­light con­cerns about neg­a­tive impacts of frack­ing on pub­lic health and the envi­ron­ment from radioac­tive dis­charge.

Radi­um is just one of the radioac­tive mate­ri­als released from the earth when it is frac­tured in the frack­ing process. The “atoms” will be placed around Lytham and each one will have a mes­sage attached with the web­site www.frack-off.org.uk guid­ing the pub­lic to all the lat­est research. The atoms are made entire­ly from biodegrad­able mate­ri­als.

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Frack­stons are out in Pre­ston, offer­ing once in a frack-time deals on home sales & insur­ance

Video

 

 

More pho­tos from round the coun­try

Grow Heathrow eviction resistance

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WE DID IT, TOGETHER WE RESISTED AN EVICTION TODAY!

THANK YOU

everyone who helped resist the eviction at Grow Heathrow, the chefs, live band, bike powered smoothie makers, seed sowers, climbers, people locked on, Jonathan Goldberg for photos, organisers and more…

BUT….

Unfortunately this is not the end…

The Bailiffs may return any day without warning…

to try and evict Grow Heathrow once more… we will need to come togeth­er again for this…

Email us your phone num­ber if you want to be part of the phone tree or join the mail­ing list on the web­site: http://www.transitionheathrow.com  info@transitionheathrow.com

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Anti-fracking protestors join occupation of Cuadrilla site

14 August 2014

14 August 2014

At mid­day today, pro­tes­tors from Reclaim the Pow­er set up camp at Pre­ston New Road, at frack­ing com­pa­ny Cuadrilla’s pro­posed drilling site. Approx­i­mate­ly 1000 atten­dees will stay for six days, to take direct action and share skills and knowl­edge. They do so in sup­port of the local community’s fight against Cuadrilla’s plans to drill for shale gas in Lancashire.[1]

Last year, the Reclaim the Pow­er camp shut down Cuadrilla’s oper­a­tions in Bal­combe, Sus­sex for a week. The com­pa­ny lat­er announced that they would not frack the site, and the Bal­combe com­mu­ni­ty has set up an ini­tia­tive to sup­ply their area with renew­able energy.[2]

In 2011, Black­pool expe­ri­enced earth­quakes caused by frack­ing. Han­nah Jones from Reclaim the Pow­er said:

“Black­pool is where the frack­ing indus­try start­ed in the UK, and this is where it has to stop. Besides the dam­age it can cause to water and air local­ly, fracked gas can be as bad for the cli­mate as coal. We need ener­gy that’s sus­tain­able, demo­c­ra­t­ic, and afford­able, instead of cor­po­rate con­trolled fos­sil fuels.”

Since August 7th, a group of Lan­cashire grand­moth­ers, moth­ers, and chil­dren have been occu­py­ing a field on Pre­ston New Road – one of Cuadrilla’s pro­posed drill sites. Local res­i­dents hand­ed in a record-break­ing 14,000 objec­tions to a coun­cil con­sul­ta­tion on Cuadrilla’s plans.[3] When asked why the local women are occu­py­ing the field, Tina Louise from Lan­cashire said,

“The shale gas indus­try and Cuadrilla in par­tic­u­lar have not act­ed hon­est­ly in their deal­ings with our com­mu­ni­ty and are not to be trust­ed with the health and well-being of our chil­dren. We do not want them here and so are gath­er­ing to make sure we are heard and we are call­ing oth­ers to help us ampli­fy this. As air and water do not rec­og­nize coun­ty bound­aries, the defence is for every­body in the UK.”

[1] Press pack with more detailed camp infor­ma­tion avail­able. [2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/17/balcombe-fracking-energy-community-renewables [3]http://www.foe.co.uk/news/14000-people-call-frack-free-lancashire

How to get to the camp

Pro­gramme (includ­ing march on Sun­day, day of action on Mon­day)

Week of Action against the NATO Summit in Newport

The world’s lead­ing war­mon­gers will meet this sum­mer in Wales.  A week of action is planned to oppose and stop them, from August 30th to Sep­tem­ber the 5th.

The world’s lead­ing war­mon­gers will meet this sum­mer in Wales.  A week of action is planned to oppose and stop them, from August 30th to Sep­tem­ber the 5th.

Two organ­i­sa­tions are plan­ning actions against the sum­mit, inclus­ing mass demon­stra­tions and days of action on dif­fer­ent aspects of mil­i­tarism.  This promis­es to be a mas­sive focal point for the move­ment against mil­iarism this sum­mer. Details of can be found here:

https://network23.org/stopnatocymru/

http://www.nonatonewport.org/

Please get involved and spread the word!  Help raise our pro­file by link­ing to stop­NA­TO­Cym­ru on blogs etc., and more impor­tant­ly, come along to the events and show your sup­port.