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Wave goodbye to fossils

Posted by bex - 10 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments
Wind power in action

Renewable energy has the potential to create thousands of jobs and generate power without imperilling the climate.

The UK government must set a series of progressive renewable energy targets, leading to a fossil fuel phase out in the next 30 to 40 years and open up the huge UK offshore wind resource. At the very least this means announcing a licensing round for offshore wind. To assure industry that investment in UK offshore wind is worthwhile, the Government must ensure these rounds are substantial and regular.

Article tagged as: climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy, solar power, wave power, wind power

Puffin around Westminster

Posted by bex - 2 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments
Greenpeace puffins - SOS St. KildaThere is a long tradition on St Kilda of people being given a say on issues that concerned them. That tradition has now been revived, with everyone having the chance to vote on the future of St Kilda.
Article tagged as: atlantic frontier, climate change, direct actions, oil, st kilda

New voice for St Kilda: Greenpeace online referendum on oil exploration around seabird haven

Posted by bex - 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments
Greenpeace has launched an online referendum on whether or not oil exploration should continue in the seabed around the islands of St Kilda, West Scotland. Rob Gueterbock, Greenpeace St Kilda historian and oil analyst, explains:

"Away from the public gaze, the Government has been carving up and selling off the Atlantic seabed around St Kilda, Britain's only Natural World Heritage Site, to multinational oil companies. Drilling could start any day now without any public debate having taken place. The Government has never set up a vote and the oil companies certainly haven't.

Article tagged as: climate change, oil, st kilda, wildlife

Plutonium ships a 'dangerous precedent'

Posted by admin - 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments
International protest against nuclear transports from Europe to Japan is mounting as two armed ships laden with weapons-usable plutonium rounded the Cape of Good Hope. The ships are en route from British Nuclear Fuels' Sellafield plant in the UK and a similar plant in France. From South Africa, they are believed to be headed for Australia, New Zealand and finally Japan.

Commercial whaling: status report

Posted by admin - 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

 

The 1999 Norwegian whaling season has now ended whilst the Japanese hunt in Antarctic waters is still due to take place during the cusp of the Millennium. Greenpeace's Richard Page describes the current situation with the only two countries flouting international agreement to end commercial whaling.

GM animal feeds: Greenpeace explains next step in campaign against GM foods

Posted by admin - 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

Solution - go organic

In the wake of Marks and Spencer's announcement that it is to start removing genetically modified soya and maize from animal feed, Greenpeace's food specialist Stokely Webster explains the significance of this latest development.

Greenpeace expedition finds new evidence of climate change impacts in the Arctic

Posted by admin - 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

The Arctic Sunrise

A three week Greenpeace scientific expedition in July to the retreating Arctic ice pack has uncovered new evidence that climate change appears to be impacting on the wildlife and ecology of the region, particularly walrus young. Matthew Spencer Head of the Climate Campaign reports:

Amazonian plywood and veneer linked to illegal logging

Posted by admin - 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

Amazon under threat

Results of a Greenpeace investigation into the extent of illegal logging in the Amazon have been handed to the Amazonas authorities in Brazil. The report indicates that timber products exported to the UK and elsewhere may be illegal. Greenpeace's John Sauven gives the details.

The true cost of food

Posted by admin - 28 August 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

The True Cost Of Food

A new report into  'The True Cost of Food', released by Greenpeace and the Soil Association,  calls for a ban on GM and  a phase-out of industrialised farming. The report looks at the real cost of industrialised farming in terms of human health, animal welfare, and the environment and exposes this vision of agriculture as fundamentally flawed. It claims that current Government policy embraces irresponsible short-term priorities, missing out on the huge commercial potential of modern organic farming.

The first Greenpeace True Food supermarket tour took place in Liverpool at Tesco Metro

Posted by admin - 28 August 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

Starting at 10am, Greenpeace members conducted a series of public information tours around Tesco, one of the many supermarkets in the UK that stocks products containing GM ingredients.

'We'll be showing people in Liverpool that they are able to buy good, wholesome organic food and that they can avoid buying into this GM experiment. This will send a clear message to our supermarkets that we want GM food off the shelves and banned from the city. Don't buy it, go organic,' said local Greenpeace campaigner, Pete Mulhall.

 

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