Activists erect ‘headstones’ by UK Parliament to highlight deaths from cold homes.
… Headstones for cold homes Emily Beament | 14th March 2024 | News … UK Parliament to highlight deaths from cold homes. Greenpeace is urging the UK Government … to invest £6 billion a year to make homes warmer, improve health, cut bills and …
As the recession continues, squatting across Europe has enjoyed a renaissance. Although controversial, occupying vacant buildings has become a form of activism, promoting alternative lifestyles and challenging the mainstream
… increasing numbers of people losing their homes, unemployment and poverty on the rise, … in large cities with an abundance of empty homes, is undergoing something on a … positive aspects including housing otherwise homeless people and, as has been demonstrated …
One of Rishi Sunak's houses is targeted by Greenpeace protesters to 'drive home the dangerous consequences' of new oil and gas licences.
… targeted by Greenpeace protesters to 'drive home the dangerous consequences' of new oil … Yorkshire with an oily-black fabric to “drive home the dangerous consequences”. They took … arsonist. “Just as wildfires and floods wreck homes and lives around the world, Sunak is …
Groups from Panama, Amazonia, Patagonia, Alaska and the wider USA were today joined by activists at COP26 in Glasgow.
… Indigenous islanders' homes are sinking Daniel Harkins | 3rd … in Glasgow. Indigenous people whose island homes are sinking underwater due to climate … crying when speaking about the plight of her home. “Three of our islands are already …
PATRICK CARR is a lifelong coal mine protester from the Pont Valley. As campaigners are evicted from the site by police he explains in his own words what inspired him to join the movement.
… from the coalface: 'Protecting the land, my home' Patrick Carr | 20th April 2018 Comment … It was time to act. The Pont Valley is my home. It is the place where I first discovered … care. It was less that they had arrived in my home, but more my home came to me. Something …
The Police Bill amendments will, if made law, criminalise the smallest acts of protest.
… beyond anything admitted by Priti Patel, the home secretary. As a practicing barrister I … representing tenants at threat of losing the homes, I spend months of every year sorting … serious as orders banning people from their home for a year – made after five or 10 minute …
… Should climate protesters picket an MP at home? Ministers are considering proposals to … have led to a recent spate of protests at MPs homes and offices, both for climate … well-publicised cases of Gaza protests at the homes of Tobias Ellwood in Bournemouth East, …
Nearly a year ago at the height of the UK floods, tragedy struck an ordinary family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. Now the authorities appear determined to exculpate the source of the poison - an old landfill site - even as they prepare for a massive increase in hazardous waste from fracking.
… No carbon monoxide was found in the family home. Also, it took Public Health England 14 … immediate finding of hydrogen cyanide in the home, the pathologist was never told to test … revealed that a field 6 metres from their home that contains a lake and looks so …
Denton's 59-41 vote to ban fracking has got right up the nose of the state's fossil fuel elite, writes Julie Dermansky. The Texas city has already been hit with two lawsuits - but it's going to fight them all the way, with a $4 million legal fund ready and waiting.
… a favor and listen to concerned citizens." 'Home rule'? No problem - until you mess with … threatened to pass legislation to take away home rule powers from cities that stand up to the oil and gas industry. Home rule empower s local municipalities to …
'The truth is that we have all been too cowed, too demoralised, hopeless or frightened. It is time for us to change that in ourselves.'
… workers. Obvs. Everyone who can works from home. Obvs. But also, we need testing for … be isolated, fed and treated. Don’t send them home to give it to other people in their … was quarantined. Everyone who has to stay home because they are infected, or because …
In 2011 Bob and Lisa Parr filed a lawsuit in the Texas courts against Aruba Petroleum after they suffered health damage which they attributed to pollution from fracking wells. They have now been awarded $3m damages.
… found in favour of Bob and Lisa Parr, whose home and 40-acre ranch is surrounded by 21 … the family's 40-acre ranch property, their home and quality of life, sickened them and … extent this family went through." The family home is in Wise County, Texas is in the heart …
Activists who locked themselves to a plane to prevent deportations given community orders and suspended sentences.
… 2019 News Deportation Stansted Airport Home Office Activism Change Makers … for deportations immediately,” he said. A Home Office spokesperson said: “We only return … voluntarily but, where they do not, the Home Office will seek to enforce their …
'The diversity of habitats in Kyiv, especially on the banks of the Dnipro, is quite astonishing.'
… and curator from Luhansk whose family home has been occupied since 2014, has lived … more-than-human communities that call them home. Image: Mstyslav Chernov. ECOLOGICAL … colony of black-headed gulls makes its home here, among over 60 other bird species …
The protests erupting across China deserve international solidarity. The future of the planet could be determined by their success - or failure.
… of the people. People are confined to their homes, often flats in highrise buildings, … the high-rises shouting at people to stay home. Part of the fury about the ten people … chains. Lockdowns have forced workers to stay home and to lose weeks or months of wages. …
'If you could mine salt from their grief and tears, Slovyansk would be a leader of salt-making.'
… now, but he is still at the front — just went home on leave in June, for the first time … exhausted the industry. Ground caved, homes collapsed. In 1961, the authorities … sites rich in high-grade anthracite coal. My home-town was famous for it. But since the war …
Local people are furiously trying to stop a fracking company from drilling near a drinking water reservoir serving tens of thousands of homes, after Northern Ireland planners failed to block Infrastrata's claim for 'permitted development' rights.
… water reservoir serving tens of thousands of homes, after Northern Ireland planners failed … Water, the Province's monopoly water company. Homes are as close as 200m away. NI Water … streets - meaning many tens of thousands of homes. 'Permitted development' fast track …
Barring a miracle Marco Rubio is set to be Trumped in the Republican primary tomorrow in Florida, his home state, putting an effective end to his campaign. But it's not for want of support from one of the US's biggest frackers, Devon energy, and its politically active CEO Larry Nichols. And with or without Rubio, Nichols's influence on the red states' energy policy is only going to get bigger.
… Republican primary tomorrow in Florida, his home state, putting an effective end to his … a year. Oklahoma Let's start in Nichols' home-state, where Devon is especially … showed just how powerful Devon was in its home state, where its talking points were used …
Campaigners fighting the world’s biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK’s newest opencast coal mine.
… if he is surprised by how close people's homes are to the mine. ‘No. I am surprised by how close the mine is to people’s homes’, he replies. In La Guajira, the train … ‘I have never seen a mine this close to homes’, says Aldo, who is keen to share with …
Protests against fracked-gas pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action resistance to extraction. Insider Eric Moll reports from the Frontline of the resistance
… have documented health impacts; one fourth of homes has at least one person with cancer. The … 86 years old, had to fight to keep his home years ago, beginning in the late 1950’s … the police tear-gassed people out of their homes, but the dam was never built. After …
Fracking has no social licence in the UK, will contribute little to the economy, will have a huge adverse impact on other sectors, will be a disaster to climate and the environment, and won't even improve energy security, write Peter Strachan and Alex Russell. Do we really want to see 16,000 or more shale gas wells drilled in the British countryside? Let's FraXit now!
… play within a 10-mile radius of their homes. Proximity is an important issue in the … fracked near and perhaps even under people's homes, their places of work, and the schools … be unable to stay in business" . Closer to home The Telegraph has recently reported that …
The UK government's insistence of pursuing fracking is based on a flawed and utterly misinformed vision of our future, write Alex Russell and Peter Strachan. Rather than delivering the prosperity they promise, large scale fracking would cause massive pollution of air and water, undermine vital export industries, and leave us with an irretrievably damaged economy and natural environment.
… This is as unedifying as setting up home on Scotland's Gruinard Island shortly … onshore gas will keep the lights on, and our homes warm for decades ahead, is surely living … lower electricity and heating bills! Bringing home the bacon? Sustained lower international …
The Gond tribe of Hasdeo Arand, the largest and oldest stretch of forest land in central India, is on the verge of losing its home in the face of coal mining.
… central India, is on the verge of losing its home in the face of coal mining. As the bus … to attract global bidders. Cultural heritage Home to the Gond tribe, the Hasdeo Arad … emerging from the region. Madanpur is home to the office of the Chattisgarh Bachao …
Natural gas is widely touted as a 'green fuel'. But as Paul Thacker found in Colorado, fracking's national 'ground zero', it's anything but. Lives and health are being ruined by pollution from taxpayer-subsidized gas wells, flaring and refining plants, while property values collapse. Now a mass of environmental refugees are fleeing the ravaged state.
… gas rigs that were making the air around her home impossible to breathe. " There were 17 … a buffer between gas wells and people's homes. Don't mention the tax subsidies! But … and I bought 20 acres and it's our dream home.' It's like a broken record to the …