Not one, not two but at least three climate change-related happenings popped up around the country yesterday, many of them carried out by Climate Camp attendees. Although the camp is primarily focused on coal and the proposed new power station at Kingsnorth, today's activities also highlighted other climate threats such as aviation and biofuels. Here is just a taste of what's been happening:
Posted by bex — 18 July 2008 at 10:32am
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An excellent film from The Ecologist exposing the tactics used against environmental protestors - from espionage and legal threats to news manipulation and violence:
Posted by bex — 23 April 2008 at 5:47pm
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You'd probably find the idea of an event for trading in rhinoceros horns or tiger skins pretty shocking. But today, 1,600 companies from 80
countries came together in Brussels to trade all sorts species, including some threatened and endangered ones: fish, also known as our global marine life.
The Brussels Seafood Expo is the world's biggest sea food trading event, where species on the brink of collapse - like Mediterranean bluefin tuna and North Sea cod - are, literally, served up on a plate.
Five of the world's principal tuna suppliers were forced to stop doing business at the seafood industry's largest trade fair by almost 100 environmental campaigners this morning.
The Greenpeace volunteers entered the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels - where many UK supermarkets buy from the 1,600 exhibitors - at 10am. Using fishing nets and chains, they shut down the tuna traders' stands and used the public address system to urge industry buyers to purchase only sustainable seafood.
Posted by jamie — 8 April 2008 at 12:21pm
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We had Fossil Fool's Day last week with plenty
of action around the country to highlight the dangers posed by coal, but the
dreadful punning doesn't stop there. Continuing the theme, next Tuesday is
April Biofool's Day which admittedly falls on the 15th rather than
the 1st, but that's because the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
(RTFO) - which will overnight increase our consumption of biofuels - begins to
make its presence felt.
On the day, the good folks at Biofuelwatch and
the Campaign against Climate Change are organising a protest outside the home
of a certain Mr Gordon Brown, Number 10 Downing Street. You can join the crowds
outside Number 10 from 6pm and further details are on the websites of both
organisations. If you can't get there, you can still do something - write to
transport secretary Ruth Kelly with your concerns about this rush towards
biofuels.
Meanwhile, concerns about biofuels are rising
up the political ladder, as last week UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called
for a review on global biofuel policies. Our government currently has the
indirect impacts with biofuels under review but the results aren't due for some
time, and certainly not before Biofool's Day next week.
Posted by jossc — 5 March 2008 at 11:50am
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Kingsnorth in Kent is to be the main focus of this year's Camp for Climate Action. From 4th to 11th of August climate activists will gather at the site of E.On's proposed new coal-fired power station, the first to be built in the UK for 30 years.
Posted by jossc — 28 February 2008 at 3:13pm
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Two audacious and well executed climate actions have deservedly grabbed headlines this week - Plane Stupid's 'No third runway' banner drop on the House of Commons yesterday perfectly complimenting our own Heathrow Airport plane protest on Monday. Both sets of activists involved spoke eloquently to the media about why they were there: to expose the government's 'public consultation' as a sham, and to remind us all that climate change is the greatest threat that we face, and we have little time to start getting serious about it.
Posted by bex — 27 February 2008 at 11:18am
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Plane Stupid protest at the Houses of Parliament
Another day, another voice loudly opposing plans for a new runway at Heathrow. Today, Plane Stupid campaigners have scaled the Houses of Parliament to protest at the collusion between government and the aviation industry.
In the absence of a genuine consultation with Londoners, the protest is a brilliant way to get the word out on the day the Heathrow 'consultation' ends. They've dropped banners reading 'BAA's HQ' down parliament's facade, and are enlightening the great and the good on their way to Prime Ministers' Question Time below by throwing paper aeroplanes - made from secret Whitehall documents that prove BAA has written parts of the consultation and the government has already decided to build a third runway - from the roof.
