Coal mining companies in SIberia are destroying indigenous communities, before exporting the fuel to the UK. MAT HOPE of DeSmog UK reports
… ‘Our Rivers are Black with Coal’ — living with Siberia's mines Mat Hope | 29th May 2018 Activism Coal Indigenous Communities Yana Siberia mine Coal mining companies in SIberia are …
The opencast coal mine at Ffos-y-Fran near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales is the UK’s largest - and has produced eight million tonnes of coal. Now Miller Argent, the owner and operator, wants to extend the mine. Banks Mining has applied for planning permission to begin a new mine at Highthorn, in Northumberland. The application will go before Sajid Javid, the Communities Secretary, today. MAT HOPE of DeSmog UK spoke to the people most affected.
… From the valleys to the beaches - new coal mines bring fear not hope Mat Hope | 4th December 2017 Activism Mining Coal Protest Campaigns fyf_machinery.jpg The opencast coal mine at Ffos-y-Fran near Merthyr Tydfil …
A judge has ordered the eviction of protestors occupying the site of a proposed new coal mine in County Durham. Local residents are putting up one last fight to try and stop the project. MAT HOPE reports
… Valley: meet the protesters fighting a new coal mine Mat Hope | 28th March 2018 Activism Coal Mining Banks Group Pont Valley protection … occupying the site of a proposed new coal mine in County Durham. Local residents …
The talks are taking place in Poland against a backdrop of mounting urgency and expectations following a report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
… Polish city of Katowice, in the country’s coal heartland. The stakes are high, but — as … home countries. Taking place in Poland’s coal heartland, this year’s climate talks are … platform for more discussion on the future of coal. The fuel powered western countries …
An interview with World Resources Institute decarbonisation specialist, Kelly Levin.
… we thought to a lot of these tipping points. Coal NB: One of the biggest causes seems to be use of coal in terms of attributable source. Does the … any proposed strategy for getting away from coal faster? KL: The good news is that the …
Internal documents unearthed by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent show oil company Shell knew about the danger of burning fossil fuels for climate change as early as the 1980s. MAT HOPE from DeSmog.uk has the story
… that Shell knew all of its products including coal, oil and gas significantly contributed to …
Protesting against fracking in the UK is now an imprisonable offence. Without the independent media, no-one would have been there to document this seismic shift in the criminalisation of environmental activism.
… in the US, to the forcible removal of anti-coal protestors from the Hambacher forest in … shutdowns , to anti-fracking protests , and coal extraction resistances . It’s not ‘us’ …
The IPCC's 'Representative Concentration Pathways' are based on fantasy technology that must draw massive volumes of CO2 out of the atmosphere late this century, writes Nick Breeze - an unjustified hope that conceals a very bleak future for Earth, and humanity.
… claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense. … iron ore on that scale. We don't even produce coal, oil or gas on that scale. Iron ore is … claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense. …
Japan’s lack of climate ambition - as the fifth largest global greenhouse gas emitter - is a risk to long-term global security.
… billion dollars and is one of the largest coal financiers in the world. If the level of … billion dollars and is one of the largest coal financiers in the world. …
James Hansen is making his second visit to the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, COP23 in Bonn to declare the that the Paris Agreement “ambition” is a “hoax”. NICK BREEZE meets the man still raising the climate alarm.
… has to be across the board: oil, gas and coal. Not some cap and trade gimmick which …
Is Boris Johnson's cabinet the most anti-climate action ever?
… Javid later rejected plans for a new coal mine at Druridge Bay in Northumbria. … restrictions”. She also stated that “coal with CCS is vital for tackling climate … out over Christmas in 2016 due to a lack of coal power (they didn’t). Those claims came …
The transatlantic network of fossil fuel funded think tanks has been constructed over more than half a century - and has come into its own with the arrival of Donald Trump in the UK and his praise for Boris Johnson. MAT HOPE of DESMOG UK reports
… use of EPA funds, Trump appointed another coal lobbyist to replace him — Andrew Wheeler …
A web of lobbyists, politicians, and political funders continue to spread disinformation about climate change in the UK. MAT HOPE, the editor of DeSmog UK, today launches its new Climate Disinformation Database. Here he explains how the resource aims to better inform public debate.
… . There is hereditary peer, Times columnist, coal baron, and self-styled “rational …
'I'm more worried about human stupidity than I am about artificial intelligence!'
… impacts is quoted by the Loss & Damage Coalition to be $400 billion per annum . COP … With emissions still rising and all the major coal, oil and gas producers in the world, …
Who's the UK's foremost politician setting the agenda on climate change issues? Green MP Caroline Lucas, of course. Nick Breeze caught up with her at a COP21 event at the French National Assembly in Paris. The fossil fuel industry is in its last throes, she told him - but it's fighting back hard, and politicians are giving out very mixed messages: saying one thing, while doing another.
… 1.5C - so long as the world is still building coal and gas burning power stations and other …
DeSmog UK maps connections between UK cabinet ministers and Tufton Street lobbyists.
… out over Christmas in 2016 due to a lack of coal power (they didn’t). At the time, Shapps … though he later rejected plans for a new coal mine at Druridge Bay in Northumbria. …
Professor Chris Rapley discusses the Climate Change Act 10 years on - and warns we are not acting on a 'scale or pace' to stay beneath the crucial 2ºC of warming. In this interview with NICK BREEZE, he balances the inadequacies of climate policy with the growing willingness of many people to take action
… mean, we have been through periods were coal contributed nothing to the UK electricity …
Film maker Nick Breeze has conducted a series of interviews with experts on 'geo-engineering' to forestall runaway global warming. Here he presents the distilled wisdom from his meetings - and concludes that we should at least be experimenting with the techniques, and studying their impacts.
… climate changes that are a result of burning coal, oil and gas, nor for ocean …