GALWAY, IRELAND (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Plans by Drax Power Limited (Selby, England) to build one of the U.K.'s largest biomass power plants took a significant step forward following the decision by North Yorkshire County Council's planning committee to grant permission for the project. The final decision on the £700 million ($1.2 billion)...
Source: Guardian As demonstrations go, it was more of a lighthearted affair than a threat to the nation. About 600 climate change campaigners had gathered outside the Drax power station in North Yorkshire. They had chosen to demonstrate there because the huge plant is the UK’s biggest emitter of carbon. The protesters were mainly families with young [...]
From the UK but I think this is an example of how Israel's police act: As demonstrations go, it was more of a lighthearted affair than a threat to the nation. About 600 climate change campaigners had gathered outside the Drax power station in North Yorkshire. They had chosen to demonstrate...The protesters were mainly families with young children, accompanied by clowns, cyclists, baton twirlers and,...
From: John Vidal, Guardian, 3Sep09 Climate change is here, it is a reality . As one devastating drought follows another, the future is bleak for millions in east Africa. John Vidal reports from Moyale, Kenya. After three years of disastrous rains, the families from the Borana tribe, who by custom travel thousands of miles a year in search of water and pasture, have unanimously decided to settle down....
Judge orders fines, unpaid work and conditional discharges for group of activists including senior lecturer, teachers and preacher Environmental protesters who hijacked a freight train carrying coal to one of Europe's largest power stations were today sentenced to community service and ordered to pay costs and compensation to Network Rail. The group had taken part in a non-violent protest against...
The 22 men and women found guilty of obstruction are expected to be handed heavy community service sentences Climate protesters who hijacked a coal train on its way to Drax power station in June 2008 will be sentenced this morning. The 22 men and women, including a senior university lecturer, teachers and film-makers, were convicted in July of obstructing an engine or carriage using a railway. The...
Climate Camp descends on London today. But some wonder whether this enigmatic, leaderless group can really change the way we treat our environment The "swoop" commences at noon today. It will start from symbolic locations across central London, including the Bank of England, where Ian Tomlinson died during Easter's G20 protests, and Stockwell tube station, where Jean Charles de Menezes was...
Climate Camp descends on London today. But some wonder whether this enigmatic, leaderless group can really change the way we treat our environment The "swoop" commences at noon today. It will start from symbolic locations across central London, including the Bank of England, where Ian Tomlinson died during Easter's G20 protests, and Stockwell tube station, where Jean Charles de Menezes was...
Canadian First Nations seek to highlight UK's 'criminal' role in CO2-heavy oil schemes Native Americans are to join the Climate Camp protests in the City of London this week in an attempt to draw attention to corporate Britain's "criminal" involvement in the tar sands of Canada. Five representatives from the Cree First Nations are coming to co-ordinate their campaign against key players...
The activists damaged a 6.5km conveyor belt which transports 200,000 coal each year from Glentaggart to Ravenstruther Climate protesterstoday claimed to have stopped the flow of coal from one of Scotland's largest opencast mines to the Drax power station in north Yorkshire by sabotaging an major coal conveyor belt. The activists – who are believed to come from a Climate Camp, which opened earlier...
• Polish facility pumps out 30m tonnes of CO 2 a year • Activists say giant plants undermine climate fight The biggest single producer of carbon emissions in the European Union has been named – and it is about to get even bigger. The appropriately titled Elektrownia Belchatow – a massive coal-fired power station – belched out 30,862,792 tonnes of CO 2 last year and by 2010...
Twenty-two environmental protesters who ambushed a train as it took coal to the largest power station in Europe were found guilty of obstructing the railway. The group was protesting last June against climate change and the pollution caused by the coal-fired Drax power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire. Judge James Spencer, at Leeds Crown Court told the defendants they would not be going to jail...
Climate change protesters face community service after judge rejects justification defence Martin Wainwright guardian.co.uk , Friday 3 July 2009 16.00 BST Climate change protesters who ambushed and hijacked a power station coal train failed to convince a jury today that their actions were justified by the "imminent threat" of devastation from global warming. The 22 men and women, including...
Goldman Sachs Drools Over Cap And Trade scam | Politics, Economics, Religion and People Obama's insane energy plan, Cap and Trade, will be another bonanza for the uber-rich and oh-so-lucky firm that has it's tentacles entrenched at the highest levels of power in our country. The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino/scam that's been kind to Government Sachs,...
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