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1. For Peat's Sake - Save the Glentaggart East bog! - http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2797 2. Colin Ortlepp: Next to go? - http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2794 3. Good riddance! Scottish Coal chief exec quits - http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2789 4. North...
Who needs coal? Who needs nuclear?
It seems to be a "Hobson's choice" par excellence! As global climate change talks continued in Durban, South Africa's leadership was faced with a "conundrum" - does the country continue burning-up the world by depending on coal, or should it risk radiating it with...
Silent Protest Held in Support of Communities of Limpopo
Gaia Foundation press release, Thursday 15th December 2011 Yesterday in Central London a silent protest took place outside the General Meeting of Shareholders of Australian mining company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL). The protest was held in solidarity with the...
Civil society groups demand global corporations reconsider investment in Coal of Africa mining project.
Yesterday, civil society groups and community members from the Limpopo Province of South Africa sent a letter to over fifty shareholders and potential investors of Coal of Africa (CoAL) demanding that they reconsider their plans to support the company - and...
Saami communities protest in London over mining
This morning representatives of several Indigenous Saami communities from Scandinavia protested outside the ‘Mines and Money’ London conference in order to raise awareness over the destruction of their traditional lands by mining. Saami areas in Sweden are currently...
Xstrata under fire on three continents
Protesters storm Xstrata's London HQ Protesters' account and comments at N30, corporate greed, Xstrata and the right to protest, http://occupylsx.org/?p=1755. See also:...
Canadian Indigenous Peoples to fight tarsands pipeline
Aboriginal groups in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia said on Thursday they had formed a united front to oppose all exports of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands through their territories. See...
UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project
The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada's campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal. At the same time, the UK government was being lobbied by Shell and BP, which...
Mining companies hold back progress on climate change
The world's biggest steel producer, ArcelorMittal, and global miner, BHP Billiton, are among companies "block[ing] progress on climate legislation", while they "ensure that fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies continue to give unfair advantage to dirty energy". So says...
Coal study names top 20 'climate killer' banks
Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC are among the top banks that have lent billions of euros to the coal sector – despite their much-vaunted environmental credentials, a new investigation has found. See...