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Update on Hinkley mud

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 12th September 2018

There has been concern over EDF moving mud from the Hinkley site to the South Wales coast. This morning Greenpeace wrote to EDF to clarify our position: Dear EDF, We have been informed that EDF has misrepresented Greenpeace’s current position regarding the dredging and dumping of mud from the Hinkley… Read More

How the government is undermining solar – again

Posted by Graham Thompson - 6th September 2018
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  As anyone who has ever watched an American high school movie right to the happy ending knows, life is not a popularity contest. And neither is energy policy. Fracking, the ugly duckling of energy sources with twice as much public opposition as support, is still the apple… Read More

Our oceans’ last chance: a historic opportunity

Posted by Louisa Casson - 4th September 2018
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This is so exciting! For the next two weeks, there will be negotiations on a Global Ocean Treaty at the UN. It’s such a historic opportunity, scientists are calling it “The last chance for the oceans”, and that’s exactly what it is! A hawksbill turtle swims past a… Read More

Why I joined Greenpeace to close down Volkswagen’s UK headquarters

Posted by Aarash Saleh - 30th August 2018
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Ordinarily on a Monday morning I’d be in my consulting room as a respiratory doctor, but Monday last week I joined Greenpeace to close down Volkswagen’s UK headquarters by setting up an air pollution health clinic right at their front door. We offered staff health checks and called on the… Read More

Emma Thompson: “If we want to save orangutans from extinction we need to save their home”

Posted by Nick Monro aka Dikson - 29th August 2018
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The first time I saw an orangutan in real life, I nearly peed with fright! I heard a great commotion in the trees above me and there he was, swinging through the branches, his huge plate-shaped face staring down. It was… Read More