Environment
Pickering protest says no to fracking in Ryedale
05 December 2017Families on their first ever demonstration were among the 200-strong crowd marching through the market town of Pickering in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, on Saturday against fracking.
Fracking boss calls on Tories to overrule local council
27 November 2017Gas giant Ineos—owned by energy baron Jim Ratcliffe—called on the government to override Derbyshire County Council’s planning processes so it can start fracking.
Anti-fracking activists promise to keep fighting as high court upholds injunction
24 November 2017The high court has decided to continue banning protests against the fracking plans of petrochemical baron Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos.
What kind of society could solve the climate crisis?
12 November 2017United Nations talks this month are the latest chapter in our rulers’ failure to deal with climate change. But there are still solutions, argues Dave Sewell
Protesters keep up the resistance to fracking at Preston New Road
11 November 2017Up to 200 trade unionists and environmental campaigners joined an anti-fracking solidarity rally and march at the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool, Lancashire, on Saturday.
Kirby Misperton protesters are determined to battle the frackers’ new well
07 November 2017Chants of “Theresa May, hear us say, no fracking way,” rang across North Yorkshire countryside last Saturday as a 200-plus trade union solidarity march followed the PCS union’s samba band to Third Energy’s KM8 fracking well.
For Your Grandchildren documents the battle to stop gas pipelines in the US
07 November 2017For Your Grandchildren is a film about the struggle against the Sabal Trail Pipeline in Florida. The film’s director Mike Tintner spoke to Kim Hunter
Climate change displaces millions and is set to get worse, says new report
02 November 2017Climate change is already driving millions of people from their homes in poorer countries around the world.
Third Energy ready to frack in North Yorkshire at any moment
29 October 2017The battle over fracking in Britain has shifted a gear. Third Energy is poised to frack at Ryedale, North Yorkshire.
Nuclear delusions sideline renewable energy
12 September 2017The case against renewable energy took a severe blow this week after wind power firms won the rigged race for a government subsidy.
Hurricane Irma means storm chaos for the poorest as rich rulers refuse to help
12 September 2017Hurricane Irma blasted a trail of destruction through the Caribbean last week. At least 28 deaths had been reported by Monday, with ten countries hit.
West leaves victims of South Asia floods to rot as homes are swept away in monsoon
05 September 2017Over 1,200 people are dead, millions displaced and a third of Bangladesh is under water after devastating floods hit parts of South Asia.
Sierre Leone mudslide death toll is no ‘natural’ disaster
15 August 2017Landslides and flooding killed hundreds of people in the West African state of Sierra Leone on Monday.
Anti-fracking protests against Cuadrilla show that action can block big bosses
11 August 2017Residents of northern Lancashire have had everything thrown at them to drive through fracking—and they are still standing strong.
How can we save the planet and stop catastrophic climate change?
14 July 2017Capitalism generates environmental damage and climate chaos—but we have the power to stop it by transforming the world, author Ian Angus explained to Dave Sewell
Activists urge SNP to ban the frackers
30 May 2017Campaigners have been mobilising across Scotland as a government consultation of fracking nears end
Locking people out to drown or starve is our rulers' rotten response to climate change
07 February 2017Campaigners were set to meet in central London on Saturday to discuss climate change and refugees.
Activists take the fight to fracking bosses
10 January 2017Fracking company Cuadrilla began building its new drilling site at Preston New Road near Blackpool, Lancashire, last week—and local activists are already resisting.
Anti-fracking protection campers resist Third Energy in Kirby Misperton
03 January 2017Protesters have set up a protection camp in a field in Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, and have vowed to stay until gas company Third Energy agrees not to frack the nearby site.
Victory for anti-fracking campaigners as charges against activist dismissed
09 December 2016In a major victory for the anti-fracking movement, a judge dismissed charges of contempt of court against activist Tina Rothery today, Friday.
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