Transport

Greenpeace guerrilla garages

Posted by bex — 3 November 2001 at 9:00am - Comments

London garage: sign

London garage: sign

Greenpeace has given away thousands of litres of free green fuel to motorists today at refurbished 'guerrilla garages' across the country.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, guerilla garages, oil, road transport, transport

Greenpeace: defenders of the skies

Posted by bex — 30 October 2001 at 9:00am - Comments
Earth from space

Earth from space

Greenpeace has always fought to defend the atmosphere from industrial pollution.

From the early 1980s, we confronted factories across Europe and North America who were causing acid rain and documented its effects: dead lakes and forests and acid-eroded historic buildings.

Greenpeace also launched an international campaign to halt the depletion of the ozone layer. In 1992 Greenpeace scientists developed Greenfreeze, a refrigeration technology that uses hydrocarbons in place of ozone-eating CFCs and climate-busting HCFCs and HFCs. Greenfreeze was the world's first refrigerator technology which is safe both for the ozone layer and the climate and it has spread like wildfire throughout Western Europe and to other parts of the world.

Article tagged as: climate change, kyoto protocol, oil, renewable energy, transport, wave power, wind power

Greenpeace and the fuel convoy, day 3

Posted by bex — 13 November 2000 at 9:00am - Comments

Greenpeace challenges fuel blockaders and argues the case for maintaining current levels of fuel tax

Greenpeace challenges fuel blockaders and argues the case for maintaining current levels of fuel tax

Sunday

Before the convoy departed at around noon some of the Greenpeace team took their two natural gas powered vehicles to one of only 20 gas refueling points in Britain in near by Walsall.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, transport

Greenpeace and the fuel convoy, Day 2

Posted by bex — 13 November 2000 at 9:00am - Comments
Traffic jam

Traffic jam

Saturday morning. The fuel convoy and the Greenpeace team at Ferrybridge services near Leeds.

Ironically the convoy had parked up next to a fleet of army trucks who are on route to help with the clean up of local towns and villages after the recent flooding.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, climate change, road transport, transport

Bio-diesel - green fuel we can use today

Posted by bex — 10 November 2000 at 9:00am - Comments

Bio-diesel: green fuel we can use today

Bio-diesel: green fuel we can use today

Take some rapeseed, sunflower or soya oil, or recycle some used cooking oil, refine, mix with a diesel engine and voila! A non-toxic, biodegradable green fuel that can be used in any diesel engine.

Although the plant-based fuel is not pollution-free, it is significantly cleaner than its petro equivalent and causes just half the damage to the climate. Its widely used in the US, Germany and France, so why isn't the UK enjoying the environmental, economic and health benefits too?

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, road transport, transport

Greenpeace in the driving seat

Posted by bex — 10 November 2000 at 9:00am - Comments

Fuel convoy: Newcastle tractors

On the first day of the fuel protests Greenpeace volunteers met face to face with the protestors before their convoy set off for London, They explained to them the link between cheap petrol and diesel and increased flooding.

As the truckers and farmers gathered for their increasingly unpopular protest the Greenpeace activists told them that Greenpeace was completely opposed to any reductions in tax on oil based fuels. They made it clear that Gordon Brown's pledge to reduce tax on low sulphur fuels was not green but a recipe for runaway climate change since it would increase the use of oil based fuels.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, road transport, transport
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