Greenlanders vote – but for what kind of future?
Earlier this month Greenlanders voted in a new government. How will it now meet the challenge of having an apparent wealth of natural mineral resources – yet also one of the most fragile environments on earth? The tiny population of Greenland has sent a...Nuclear news
Radioactive Y-fronts and the limits of Parliamentary scrutiny Last week the nuclear industry and its Westminster friends celebrated the dawning of a new age, as French energy giant EDF won planning consent to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Meanwhile, in...Didcot A Power Station switched off after 43 years
Oxfordshire’s Didcot A Power Station has been turned off after 43 years in service. RWE npower announced the closure of the 2,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired station in September, after opting out of the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive. That meant the...Is Welsh planning policy for coal about to hit the buffers?
Loose Anti Opencast Network Press Release, 15 March 2013 Communities across the South of Wales, living close to proposed or actual opencast mine proposals in the Rhonnda (the Bryn Defaid proposal) , Neath and Port Talbot (the East Pit proposal and the Margam Parc...Groups unite to call for Europe to cut its use of world’s land
A coalition of groups, including Friends of the Earth and London Mining Network, has united to call for European governments, and the EU as a whole, to reduce Europe’s land footprint – the amount of land we use each year for food, textiles, wood, biofuels etc....One third of government ministers linked to UK companies fuelling climate change
One third of ministers in the UK government, including top cabinet ministers, are linked to the UK finance and energy companies fuelling climate change, a report from LMN member group World Development Movement reveals. The anti-poverty campaign group has condemned...Strike ends at Cerrejon, then coal train bombed
Workers in the SINTRACARBON mining union have come to an agreement with Cerrejon Coal, owned by Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Shortly after the strike ended, there was a bomb attack on the railway taking coal to the export terminal. Click on photo for more…