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Nein Kingsnorth!
Posted by saunvedan on 22 October 2008.
UK Climate Campers taking their message to E.ON's Munich headquarters
I hope you remember this year's Climate Camp in the shadow of Kingsnorth coal plant in Kent. All the police intimidation, direct actions and ultimately the acquittal of our Kingsnorth six. The events in the past few months should have been enough for E.ON to see the level of public unease at their plans for Kingsnorth. But the giant energy utility is still insisting on building Britain's first coal-fired power station in over 30 years there. So, this time climate campers decided to take their message to E.ON on its own turf in Munich, Germany.
Read more »Biofuels protests planned across the UK
Posted by jamie on 28 January 2008.
The guys at Biofuelwatch have been cooking up a week of protests around (what else?) biofuels. Like us, they're concerned about the rising demand for biodiesel etc and the implications that has for the climate, as well as deforestation, food prices and a host of other related issues.
Read more »Tackling trawlers, take two
Posted by jossc on 14 May 2007.
Follow the crew of the Arctic Sunrise on their campaign for Marine Reserves in our North Sea Tour blog
Two pair trawlers we encountered yesterday admitted they were fishing for cod and told us confusingly fishy stories. One boat said it was catching lots of big cod, while the other reckoned they'd trawled loads of young fish. Either way they shouldn't be taking any – cod stocks are now only a fraction of what they were a decade or two ago.

