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7/4/2013
Tom Steyer is a man at odds with himself. He made his fortune by founding a hedge fund with a keen interest in the energy sector, including leading oil, pipeline and mining companies. The firm also gobbled up stock in BP a year after its ...
13/3/2013
The energy company EDF has dropped a £5m civil lawsuit against a group of 21 activists who occupied one of its gas-fired power plants for a week in October 2012, in a move described by supporters of the demonstrators as a "humiliating ...
26/3/2012
The earth`s rising temperature is mankind`s greatest threat, an environmental expert said yesterday."Climate change is not some future problem but a very present crisis," said Bill McKibben, an author, educator and activist.The ...
13/2/2012
The European Union will not bow to pressure to suspend a controversial scheme to charge airlines for their carbon emissions, but is willing to be flexible in finding a solution to a row that threatens to escalate into a full-blown trade ...
13/2/2012
Global
planemaker Airbus joined a chorus of concern that a European scheme to charge airlines for carbon emissions risks triggering a full-blown trade war, with implications for
plane deals and even Europe's crippling sovereign debt ...
20/7/2011
Where Highway 99 meets the state capital here, a motorist has choices. He can pivot toward the San Francisco Bay, veer inland to the Nevada border, or ride the flatlands south toward Los Angeles.It's an important junction for any ...
19/7/2011
Where Highway 99 meets the state capital here, a motorist has choices. He can pivot toward the San Francisco Bay, veer inland to the Nevada border, or ride the flatlands south toward Los Angeles.
It's an important junction for any ...
14/4/2011
Hannah McClure, a student, and Josh Moos, a campaigner for
Plane Stupid, challenged the legality of the "violent" restraint methods used against them at the Camp for
Climate Action in Bishopsgate on April 1 2009.
Today the High Court ...
22/2/2011
Manchester Airport
climate change
protesters found guilty after judge says actions not justifiedA judge shot down claims by environmental activists that law-breaking could be justified by the need to fight
climate change.District ...
21/2/2011
Six
climate campaigners who are going on trial at Trafford Magistrates Court after breaching airside security at Manchester Airport last May Six
climate campaigners who are going on trial at Trafford Magistrates Court after breaching airside ...
21/2/2011
Six
climate change
protesters who cut through the fence at Manchester airport and surrounded an aircraft in
protest at emissions actually led to an increase in pollution, a court has heard.
The activists from
Plane Stupid chained their ...
9/2/2011
With the recent spate of police aggression, intimidation and infiltration of the environmental movement, the Ecologist asks if these tactics are turning people away from
protests?
Environmental
protesters are generally not seen as a ...
16/10/2010
Twelve female
protesters have handcuffed themselves to lorries which had been parked to deliberately block the main road leading to an oil refinery.Demonstrators drove the vehicles to the Coryton Oil Refinery in Essex in an attempt to ...
16/10/2010
Hundreds of demonstrators have blockaded the road to an oil refinery and claim to have stopped 375,000 gallons of fuel from leaving the depot.
The
protesters, who barricaded the road leading to the Coryton Oil Refinery near ...
16/10/2010
A group of women have handcuffed themselves to lorries parked to deliberately block the main road leading to the Coryton refinery in Essex.
Demonstrators drove the vehicles to the refinery in an attempt to stop traffic getting to and ...
30/8/2010
An anti-nuclear power
protest in front of the Emsland plant in Lingen, Germany, on Thursday. Chancellor Angela Merkel says she wants to extend the lifespans of Germany's nuclear plants by 10 to 15 years.German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ...
27/8/2010
A
protest at the Royal Bank of Scotland by the group
Climate Camp involved activists using Super Glue to attach themselves to bank property.
Climate change
protest is becoming a sticky business in Britain.
Last Thursday, ...
25/8/2010
Nine
climate activists who occupied the tarmac at Aberdeen airport in the name of tackling
climate change have each been fined between £300 and £700 after being convicted of breach of the peace.
The nine members of
Plane Stupid, some ...
17/6/2010
Nine
climate protesters who occupied Aberdeen airport did not create any "financial or life-threatening impact" to an emergency air ambulance flight, a court heard yesterday.
The
Plane Stupid
protesters have been accused of delaying the ...
15/6/2010
A
protest by
climate activists on the asphalt at Aberdeen airport delayed an emergency ambulance flight from taking off, a court heard today.
Nine
climate protesters are accused of causing a breach of the peace and vandalism after ...
24/5/2010
Six
climate change
protesters breached security and surrounded a jet at Manchester Airport, shutting the airport down for 20 minutes.
The
protesters caused all operations at the airport to be suspended after cutting through perimeter ...
27/3/2010
Climate change activists opposed to air travel are travelling to a conference in South America...by
plane.
Campaigners from
Climate Camp -- who helped blockade Heathrow at the height of the summer holidays in 2007 -- face claims of ...
14/2/2010
Most of us enjoyed a good night's sleep last night. A warm bed, soft pillow, that sort of thing. But for the past six months, during the harshest winter in decades,
protesters against the proposed Mainshill opencast mine in South Lanarkshire have ...
1/2/2010
This was supposed to be the transformative moment on global warming, the tipping point when America proved to the world that capitalism has a conscience, that we take the fate of the
planet seriously. According to the script, Congress would pass ...
30/12/2009
An Islamist terrorist caught trying to crash a
plane over Detroit creates a flash of illusory clarity. The decade might have ended with another 9/11. So was George Bush right after all? Is the "global war on terror" the defining struggle of our ...