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Government's key energy review on trial

Posted by bex — 8 February 2007 at 11:34am - Comments

Green groups gather outside the High Court as the government's energy review goes on trial

The government's decision to back a new fleet of nuclear power stations in the UK was "legally flawed", the High Court has heard.

In the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Greenpeace will argue that the government's recent energy review was not the "fullest public consultation" it had committed itself to before making a decision to back new nuclear power stations. The commitment had been made in the earlier energy white paper in 2003.

Four tonnes of coal dumped on Blair's Environment Department doorstep

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2 February, 2007

Greenpeace campaigners dump coal on government's doorstep

PM branded climate failure as UN releases key report

Greenpeace campaigners today dumped four tonnes of coal on the doorstep of Tony Blair's environment department and branded the PM a climate failure.

Blair: fossil fool

Posted by bex — 6 February 2007 at 3:59pm - Comments

Greenpeace volunteers tip four tonnes of coal on government's doorstep

The world's top climate scientists have this morning released their latest report on the science of global warming. Their verdict: the world is on the verge of climate catastrophe.

Blair's legacy: 10 years of hot air

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2 February, 2007

The climatologists who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have just confirmed that the science of climate change is more certain than ever - including the devastating impacts that are a consequence of a warming world. The need to act urgently and effectively has never been more acute. Yet despite fine words about the problem, the UK government's response is to usher in a new generation of climate damaging coal fired power stations, and attempt to spin their failure on climate change as a success.

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Blair on climate and aviation - Greenpeace response

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8 January, 2007

Melting ice
Commenting on remarks by Tony Blair that he expected new technology to mitigate aviation's contribution to climate change, Greenpeace campaigner Emily Armistead said:

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Citizens inspection of nuclear bomb making factory at Aldermaston

Posted by bex — 27 November 2006 at 6:47pm - Comments

Anita Roddick at Aldermaston

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Hundreds of citizen weapons inspectors have just spent this morning patrolling through the muddy fields of England. They came from all over the UK, converging on the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) facility at Aldermaston. They arrived from all directions, by bus, train, bicycle and on foot.

Sign the petition against Trident on Tony Blair's website

Posted by jamie — 17 November 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Who'd have thunk it? The latest wheeze to help the PM get closer to his people is to have online petitions on the Number 10 website. Anyone can create a petition and encourage people to sign, and with the people from the excellent theyworkforyou.com and writetothem.com behind it, it could actually be worthwhile.

Didcot Power Station: Greenpeace occupation ends!

Posted by bex — 3 November 2006 at 7:00pm - Comments

Volunteer on top of the cooling tower

© Greenpeace/Kate Davison

Twenty-five of our climate campaigners were arrested at 5.30pm, after spending two days occupying Didcot, Britain's dirtiest power station, succesfully cutting Co2 emissions by stopping coal from being fed into the facility. Their point? To show that there's cleaner, more efficient ways of generating energy - like decentralised energy.

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