News
New websites about stopping new coal
Submitted by admin on Wed, 24/09/2008 - 17:59As the campaign to stop new coal builds momentum, the number of websites and campaigns targetting coal across the UK continues to grow.
Yorkshire Against New Coal (YANC) is part of a campaign to oppose coal developments in Yorkshire - including an open cast mine near the Fairburn Ings bird sanctuary, near Castleford in West Yorkshire. YANC is campaigning to stop this proposal. Open cast mines not only destroy countryside, wildlife habitats and people’s lives - they are helping to push climate change to an irreversible point. You can check out their news, and support the campaign at http://yancnews.wordpress.com/
Leave it in the ground - a quote from James Hansen on what we should do with coal - is a network of groups campaigning against coal, "As a network, Leave it in the Ground is run by and for the groups that make it up, existing as a way to establish common ground, facilitate networking and share information and skills". Visit their pages and get involved at: http://leaveitintheground.org.uk/
The most readable blog about new coal is the trendy Coal Hole website - find out why Dr James Hansen is the man, watch the latest videos and read the five best reasons for coal, and why they're still really really bad.
The coal hole can be found at: http://thecoalhole.org/
To make it easy to keep up to date with everthing we have collected together all the news from all the sites campaigning on coal in a news feed. You can even subscribe to updates by email, which will send you an email once a day with any updates from the coal websites:
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KCAM on Stop Kingsnorth
Submitted by KCAM on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:53We're currently in the process of setting up some pages for KCAM in the Stop Kingsnorth site.
James Hansen talks to Kingsnorth campaigners
Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/09/2008 - 16:38Dr James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard institue for space studies, and one of the world's leading authorities on climate change, came to Kent this week to give evidence to the trial of the Kingsnorth 6. Hansen told the court that emissions from Kingsnorth led to damage to property worldwide, as well as the extinction of species and the creation of climate change refugees. Gordon Brown, he said, should announce a moratorium on all new coal plants without carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Today James Hansen spoke with local campaigners Andy Rogers and Luke Evans, both members of the local anti-Kingsnorth group called Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway (KCAM), in Maidstone.
Stop Kingsnorth makes it into the Archers
Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/09/2008 - 15:26
Here's what was broadcast last night at 7pm, online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00d6thl (10 minutes in).
The scene: Ruth Archer is telling her husband David about what she found when snooping around in their teenage daughter's bedroom.
Ruth: Well...it's probably nothing but...I needed a bit more washing to make a full load, so I went into Pip's room to see if she had anything...
David: What - filed on the floor?
Ruth: ...and there was a leaflet on her desk.
David: What sort of leaflet?
Ruth: It was about a sort of "direct action" camp.
David: Oh!
Ruth: Protesting against a proposed new power station.
David: And...you thought...
Ruth: Well, I just hope Pip isn't thinking about joining it.
David: Has she said anything?
Ruth: Well, no, but you know what she's like at the moment.
David: (Deep sigh) Ah. Well. Let's ask her about it, get it out into the open.
GASP! To be continued tonight at 7pm.