By Melanie
The lesson of history is that radical social change is achieved by people working together and confronting the dominant power structures over a sustained period of time. The suffragettes, the civil rights activists, LGBT movement, to name a few, have all employed direct action to achieve recognition of their rights. The[…]
Archive for ‘Fracking News’
By May 19, 2015 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News, News, Press releases No Comments 
“..if you succeed in de-carbonising Europe, our crops will have no natural gas to grow from. We have to have carbon dioxide. This is madness. Absolute madness what you are suggesting and our industry – our agriculture industry – is going to suffer heavily if we attempt to bury carbon dioxide in the ground. It[…]
Read more →
By April 8, 2015 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News No Comments
Lancashire County Council announced it has launched the public consultation on the extra information submitted by Cuadrilla for its two planning applications for shale gas development in the Fylde. The consultation begins today and will run for four weeks until Friday 17th April.
Details (including new Cuadrilla submissions) via Drill or Drop: http://drillordrop.com/2015/03/20/public-consultation-begins-on-cuadrillas-revised-lancashire-fracking-plans/
Lancashire is[…]
By April 4, 2015 Category: Fracking News No Comments
New report: Health & Fracking: the impacts & opportunity costs
Excellent new report by public health charity Medact – health professionals demand immediate moratorium to fracking due to its extreme health risks. They stop short of demanding a full ban but the implications of the report lead to that conclusion – fracking is inherently dangerous[…]
By April 4, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Fracking News No Comments
An Afternoon with Occupy The Media Billionaires.
First part was when we were informed by the Police that College Green was Private Property owned by the Parliamentary Estate. We had to ask if the tax payers owned the Parliamentary Estate. They couldn’t really gainsay our logic.
Then we spoke to Liz Crow’s Art Exhibition “We[…]
Read more →
By March 30, 2015 Category: Fracking News, Livestream, News No Comments
Gold Plated Human Rights? By Ashman Dan
Human Rights were created to protect the people from the power of the state in acknowledgement of the scale of harm that too much concentrated power can cause. When the state is ordering those who are meant to enforce human rights not to respect them in order for[…]
By March 30, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Fracking News, Legal, Occupy Law No Comments
The climate crisis is the defining issue of our times and will take centre-stage in world politics in 2015. Our economic system puts profits before people and is destroying the natural systems that keep us alive. It has brought us to the precipice of catastrophic climate change. Because the real solutions empower people and threaten[…]
Read more →
By March 29, 2015 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News, Livestream, News, Stop TTIP, CETABlockers, TISA No Comments
SAVE THE DATE: Friday 29th May – Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Reclaim the Power has collectively made a decision to hold our Spring action camp near Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire from Friday 29th May to Tuesday 2nd June, as part of a global day of action on corporate power ahead of the UN climate talks[…]
By March 25, 2015 Category: Fracking News, News No Comments
Statement from Observers:
UPDATE:
Paul has now been released from Charring Cross police station. He has officially reported a crime (misconduct in public office) which the police are now duty bound to investigate and he has provided them with everything they need to investigate the crime. He is now setting off home and should be[…]
By March 5, 2015 Category: Fracking News, News No Comments
