Blog: Climate

Banned: video from our Shell Belgian Grand Prix protest

Posted by Brian Fitzgerald - 27 August 2013 at 2:31pm - Comments

The video of our hijack of Sunday's Shell-sponsored Belgian Grand Prix ceremony has been pulled by YouTube following a "copyright" (aka "embarrassment") complaint. While the take down appears to have been ordered by the Formula 1 organisers, we suspect Shell is pleased. They may even be behind it. Now, why would we think that?

Article tagged as: arctic drilling, belgian grand prix, formula one, oil, Save the Arctic, shell, videos

Not for shale! Anti-fracking group hits the streets of Lancashire

Posted by kcumming - 27 August 2013 at 12:49pm - Comments

Are you in the market for a nice two bedroom house in the North West? In a previously quiet residential area, close to minor earth tremors, with the potential for high volume traffic and drilling right under your property? Then you’ve come to the right place!

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Shell: it's time to separate the sponsor from the sport

Posted by Kumi Naidoo - 25 August 2013 at 2:12pm - Comments

Exposing Shell's Arctic drilling plans at the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix

Shell spends millions on the safety-conscious grand prix but is bent on risky Arctic drilling

Much like the movement to save the Arctic, Grand Prix fans are made up of all sorts of people. I would know - I was a big fan of the sport growing up.

Is it possible that a lifelong environmental and social justice activist can harbor a secret love of racing? I’d like to think we embrace diversity in the movement and celebrate different points of view.

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The Arctic nightmare Russian authorities don’t want you to see

Posted by Christy Ferguson - 24 August 2013 at 7:00am - Comments

We're going in.

I’m on board the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise, about to cross into an area of the Arctic that Russian authorities don’t want us to see. They’ve contravened international law by denying our ship access to an important sea route and tried to shut us out - tried to shut you out. But with the world watching and millions of Arctic Defenders at our sides, we are defying the Russian authorities, claiming our rights to bear witness and to protest, and entering the Kara Sea.

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Labour comes out swinging on fracking in Balcombe

Posted by kcumming - 22 August 2013 at 2:33pm - Comments

Freshly delivered into letterboxes in Balcombe - a strongly worded (bordering on downright anti-) fracking leaflet from the local Labour Party.

Article tagged as: Balcombe, cuadrilla, energy, fracking, labour

Fracking 'day of action' rolls out across England

Posted by leila - 19 August 2013 at 2:19pm - Comments

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas arrested

Fracking activists are taking part in a 'day of action' today spanning Balcombe, London and Lichfield.

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Green groups join forces to 'put the breaks on fracking'

Posted by kcumming - 19 August 2013 at 11:52am - Comments

Over the weekend, a cross-section of environment and conservation groups issued a joint call to Government to put the brakes on fracking. This is the first time such a large number of influential NGOs have joined together to express their concern. The joint letter was published in the Sunday Times.

4 lessons from the US for countries about to be fracked

Posted by Jesse Coleman G... - 19 August 2013 at 12:00am - Comments

$Thou shalt not frack$

The United States has blessed the world with many wondrous things: atomic bombs and peanut butter; assembly lines and CocaCola. And now there is another American invention posed to spread past our borders and possibly into your water supply: fracking. Fracking is a technique that blasts apart underground shale rock layers using water and chemicals at high pressure.

Article tagged as: fracking, methane, US, water contamination

Fracking company ignores request for open debate on Twitter

Posted by jamie - 14 August 2013 at 11:17am - Comments

Yesterday, we asked fracking company Cuadrilla - currently being surrounded by protesters in the Sussex village of Balcombe - for an open, transparent debate on Twitter about, well, fracking. Sadly, we were rebuffed.

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