Whether you're fighting fracking, coal mines, new roads or a third Heathrow runway, next weekend's Earth First! Winter Moot is for you, writes Louise Somerville Williams. Campaigners and activists from across the UK and beyond will gather in Stroud to build common strength in our struggle against ecological destruction, and to work for a world of social and environmental justice.
… | 16th February 2016 Ethical Living Events Campaigning Fracking Nuclear Fossil Fuels … any other plant in the UK. Biofuelwatch are campaigning to axe Drax and to raise awareness …
Friends of the Earth opposes new nuclear power stations in the UK. And that's great, writes Jonathon Porritt, except for their complete failure to campaign about it - even though the government's nuclear obsession is a huge obstruction to the renewable energy future FoE says it wants. Please can we have some action now?
… | 9th June 2015 Comment Nuclear Energy Campaigning UK Renewables wylfa-nuke-cut.jpg … Friends of the Earth is just a question of campaigning prioritisation. But at another, …
Nuclear industry's need for subsidies rather than political opposition remains main obstacle to building of a new generation of power plants in the UK
Finance, not politics, the main obstacle to nuclear, say campaigners The Ecologist | 14th May 2010 News Nuclear Energy Politics And Economics nuclearpower.jpg No nuclear power stations will be built …
Author at the centre of recent documentary claims more than half of the environmental movement agrees with him that we should embrace genetically modified (GM) crops and nuclear power
… Levitt | 15th November 2010 News Environment Campaigning Climate Change Nuclear Gm Aviation … new coal-fired power stations being built and campaigning for existing ones to be phased out …
Campaign group South-West Against Nuclear want to stop the government's plans for a 'nuclear renaissance' beginning in Hinkley Point in Somerset. Nuclear, activists say, is plagued by problems from beginning to end
… planet. Further information: Stop Hinkley: Campaigning against Nuclear in the South West …
Green campaigners reject accusations of failure and point out success of domestic climate legislation, regulations to tackle ozone pollution and growing acceptance from the business community of environmental issues
What the environmental movement got right: activists respond to Channel 4 film Tom Levitt | 4th November 2010 News Environment Nuclear Gm Climate Change Politics And Economics wdm.jpg The …
Ukraine's state-owned nuclear generator is suing anti-nuclear activists in its latest attempt to stifle public debate over the country's ageing fleet of 15 nuclear reactors, while refusing to release information in breach of international obligations.
… Ecoclub-Rivne, NECU and others - have been campaigning since more than five years for of …
When do Friends of the Earth and the Campaign to Protect Rural England want to build an incinerator? When they’re part of a new protest coalition called ‘Planning Disaster’ which yesterday filed a planning application to build an incinerator on the site of St Paul’s Cathedral in central London.
New campaign highlights planning madness 10th July 2007 News Planning Planning Disaster St Paul's Cathedral Incinerator Nuclear Motorway Road Planning White Paper UK Politics And Economics News web …
Campaign groups say UK officials are underestimating the costs of disposing of nuclear waste and that the taxpayer will end up footing the bill
Taxpayers could bankroll nuclear clear-up under new Government plans Tom Levitt | 9th December 2010 News Nuclear Renewable Radioactive Waste Health nuclearpowerstation.jpg No nuclear power station in …
Austria's pledge to strive for the elimination of nuclear WMD kindled fresh energy and hope at this month's Vienna Conference on Nuclear Weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson. Now we must maintain the momentum towards global nuclear disarmament at the May 2015 meeting of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Austria's campaign to 'stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate' nuclear weapons Rebecca Johnson | 27th December 2014 Activism Nuclear WMD Austria USA UK India Pakistan Japan War tsar-bomba-cut.jpg …
Mark Lynas, featured in Channel 4's recent and highly controversial documentary, 'What the green movement got wrong', tells Matilda Lee why he is not the pariah of the eco movement
… in terms of human impacts and then base our campaigning objectives on this. My criticism …
This intimate relationship between West Cumbria Mining and the quango tasked with delivering a controversial Geological Disposal Facility demands that questions are asked.
Coal and nuclear in Cumbria Staff Reporter | 4th August 2020 News Coal Nuclear Waste Waste Disposal Cumbria Radiation Free Lakeland Keep Cumbrian Coal In The Hole keep_cumbrian_coal_in_the_hole.jpg …
As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, the EU is financing a controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry consumers in western Europe. Tom Levitt reports
EU 'ignoring safety risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine Tom Levitt | 17th March 2011 News Nuclear Energy Ukraine EU Renewables Radiation nuclearukraine.jpg Anti-nuclear activists are …
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations
Alternative Nobel Prize winner Raul Montenegro: ‘Nuclear energy is a nonsense technology’ Kara Moses | 5th November 2010 Comment Nuclear Gm Natural World Agriculture Food And Farming Population …
Throughout the evening, the CND advocated a course of ‘peace and sanity’. The message is unequivocal: weapons of mass destruction are the tools of war, not keepers of the peace.
CND "No Trident Replacement" Rally, March 14th 2007 David Hawkins | 16th March 2007 Comment Nuclear Trident CND Anti-war Protest Activism Parliament Square Campaigns Campaigns Depleted Uranium UK War …
As the new nuclear renaissance grows, so too does uranium extraction. In Niger, which boasts some of the world's richest deposits, NGOs say that the poor are being exploited for the West's 'clean energy'
Think nuclear is clean energy? Ask the Nigeriens Carolyn Lebel | 1st June 2010 News Energy Nuclear Sustainable Development Areva Power Politics And Economics tailings.jpg A mountain of uranium …
Local residents say they have been ‘insulted’ rather than ‘consulted’ over Government plans for new nuclear power stations
UK Government nuclear consultation ‘farcical’, say locals The Ecologist | 29th January 2010 News Nuclear Energy Planning Consultation nuclearpower.jpg Residents have complained about receiving 10 …
An occupation of EDF's site office for Hinkley C turned into a celebration today as the EDF Board postponed its 'final investment decision' for the tenth time. With strong opposition among French unions and the project afflicted by severe technical and financial problems, it's not just Hinkley that's going down, but the UK's entire nuclear programme.
EDF's Hinkley C offices occupied as UK nuclear hopes wither Oliver Tickell | 15th February 2016 News Nuclear UK France China Finance Technology Energy Protest edf-occupied-cut.jpg An occupation of …
As Germany attempts to abandon nuclear power, one small town has successfully overcome industry intimidation and begun its own post-nuclear age
How one town foiled energy giant ‘bribes’ over renewable grid William McLennan Tom Antebi | 9th May 2011 News Nuclear Renewable Energy Germany electricgrid.jpg An energy giant's monopoly was broken …
Campaigners and scientists express concern over the inclusion of a site near Sellafield in latest list of locations considered for deep underground disposal of nuclear waste
Rejected nuclear waste site in Cumbria back on list of potential locations Tom Levitt | 29th October 2010 News Nuclear Nuclear Waste Cumbria Energy nukebarrels.jpg Scientists say nowhere in West …
The UK's Trident nuclear missile system has the power of 1,500 Hiroshima bombs, writes Angie Zelter - and to use it would be a monstrous and probably suicidal crime against humanity. Should we spend £130 billion renewing it? Or on schools, hospitals, libraries, social care and cycleways? The inspiring ActionAWE campaign is waking people up to the choice we face.
Love, hope and beauty against nuclear weapons Angie Zelter | 24th March 2015 Activism War Nuclear Protest UK education-not-trident-cut.jpg The UK's Trident nuclear missile system has the power of …
Campaigners will gather at the Springfields nuclear site in Lancashire to raise awareness on the twin fronts of new nuclear generation and radioactive waste disposal.
… has been involved in a wide range of campaigning from standing in elections as a …
Nuclear power is a uniquely hazardous technology that can destroy entire nations, Japan's prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has warned British MPs. The lessons of from such catastrophes must be heeded in other countries that believe that nuclear fission can be harnessed safely, writes Linda Pentz Gunter - or they, and the world, will reap the whirlwind.
Fukushima PM Naoto Kan: 'if you love your country, let nuclear go!' Linda Pentz Gunter | 12th February 2016 News Nuclear Energy Japan Health kan-tv-cut.jpg Nuclear power is a uniquely hazardous …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
The Stern Review: Editors Comment Jon Hughes | 1st December 2006 News Climate Change Stern Nicholas Stern Stern Report Global Warming US China Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Comments And Analysis …