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Greenpeace stops import of African Rainforest destruction

Last edited 15 April 2002 at 8:00am
15 April, 2002

Tilbury: painting

At 11am today, five Greenpeace climbers boarded the MV Roxane Delmas to stop wood from Central Africa's threatened "great ape" rainforest coming into the UK. The climbers have attached themselves to the stern door of the ship in the Thames Estuary, north of Sheerness, to prevent it from unloading its cargo at London's Tilbury Docks. 

Greenpeace is demanding that this timber, from the destruction of one of the world's remaining ancient forests, is returned to Cameroon. Investigations by Greenpeace indicate that the timber on board this ship includes sapele, identical to that used in the doors and windows at the Government's Cabinet Office in Whitehall (1). Other rainforest timber from the region is also onboard.

Article tagged as: africa, cabinet office, cameroon, central africa, destructive logging, forests, FSC, government, illegal timber, press releases, tilbury docks

Forest crime files: UK Government fuelling the destruction of Africa

Last edited 10 April 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: April 2002

Summary
The Cabinet Office refurbishment project is using more than £400,000 worth of sapele from Central and West Africa for doors and windows. Greenpeace has uncovered a chain of supply that ultimately links the UK Cabinet Office to a number of the most notorious international logging companies operating in Africa's last ancient forests all with records of unsustainable, destructive and illegal logging.

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The future of UK energy policy - a leaked report

Posted by bex — 31 January 2002 at 9:00am - Comments
Offshore wind farm, oeresund

Offshore wind farm, oeresund

Today Greenpeace is taking the unusual step of publishing a leaked copy of a draft summary of a report detailing the future of UK energy policy.

The government is leaving the door open for a wave of dangerous new nuclear power stations across Britain, according to the confidential report, which is part of the government's Energy Review.

Timid targets for the generation of energy by renewable technology - like wind, wave and solar power - are also being set.

Article tagged as: climate change, government, nuclear power, UK policy

Draft copy of the PIU report: Energy review

Last edited 30 January 2002 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
10 December, 2001

"This Review had three tasks: to consider the implications for energy policy of the RCEP's view that the UK would have to make a substantial cuts in CO2 emissions by the middle of the century if it were to join a world-wide coalition to stabilise CO2 concentration in the atmosphere; to review energy security; and to consider whether the different objectives which energy systems meet can be better integrated, given that the recent past has seen some conflicts, for instance between environmental and social objectives."

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Article tagged as: energy policy, energy review, government, renewable energy, reports

Government Terrorism Bill will add to cloak of secrecy around Sellafield

Last edited 21 November 2001 at 9:00am
21 November, 2001

Greenpeace today published aerial photographs of British Nuclear Fuel's Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria to show people the sheer scale and range of nuclear activities that go on there. The pictures pin-point many of the dangerous processes that take place at the plant, which pollute the environment and result in highly radioactive material being transported across the UK. These include the Calder Hall reactor, the THORP plutonium reprocessing facility (one of the biggest buildings in Europe) and the controversial new MOX fuel plant which the Government hopes to open in December.

Article tagged as: BNFL, government, nuclear transports, press releases, sellafield

Anti-terrorism act threatens people's right to know

Posted by bex — 19 November 2001 at 9:00am - Comments
Nuclear transport in transit

Nuclear transport in transit

Article tagged as: government, nuclear power, nuclear transports, terrorism

What's wrong with the Government's waste strategy

Last edited 9 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
9 November, 2001

On 21 March 2001, the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee, a multi-party group taxed with looking at, amongst other things, waste issues, released their report, Delivering Sustainable Waste Management. The report delivers a stinging analysis of the inadequacies of the Labour Government's current waste strategy. The following material is excerpted from the Select Committee press release announcing publication of the report.

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Great myths of the incineration industry

Last edited 9 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
30 October, 2001

Emissions from modern incinerators pose no health risk Anyone who says modern incinerators are safe is either misinformed or lying.

Everyone knows the chemicals created and released during incineration process are dangerous. No one knows if the volumes discharged even from the most modern incinerators are safe.

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Article tagged as: environment agency, government, incineration, reports, zero waste

Table of current incinerator proposals

Last edited 30 October 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
30 April, 2001

Table showing MPs with incinerators or proposed incinerators (NFFO contracts)in their constituency.

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Letter to the Heads of State of G8 countries

Last edited 29 October 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: July 2000

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Article tagged as: ancient forests, g8, government, illegal logging, timber trade