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Minutes for December Meeting

Below are Jim's minutes for the meeting.  We'll get the hang of this website one day (said Jim)     Apologies:Brian, Sally, Alistair, Alan,...
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The WAVE

A large group from Berkshire Greenpeace joined The Wave of around fifty thousand protestors campaigning for effective policies at the imminent Copenhagen...
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No to new nuclear development at Aldermaston

The Ministry of Defence has recently submitted a planning application for a major new development at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment - an enriched...
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Police Intelligence may be a thing of the past

Interesting article on The Register today. The days of police unlawfully collecting and holding personal information on individuals exercising their legal...
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Airplot twinned with Prospect Park

Last Saturday, at a thankfully dry event our group was joined by local MP Martin Salter and several council representatives to twin a tree with the Heathrow...
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Meeting Notes 5th November

Allan took the minutes at the last meeting his notes are below:Present: Fish, Alan, Pete, Anthony, Peter, Raj, Nick, Sarah, Sally, Brian, Pushpa, Tei, Lorian,...
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Heathrow Airplot

So, barely a month after BAA announced that it would not be applying for permission to build the third runway we hear that it has appointed an architect, ...
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Market Poison and Carbon Trading

While we are all very interested in carbon targets, particularly in the final run-in to Copenhagen, we need to be aware of what would really happen...
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E-ON Postpone Kingsnorth, but....

So news just in that E-ON is postponing plans to build a new power station at Kingsnorth until 2016.  Apparently down to a reduced demand due to the recession...
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October Meeting notes

Present: Chris, Martyn, Lisa, Sarah, Fish, Jeeves, Alan, Jim, Anthony, Sue, Peter, Trish, Ben, Brian, Sam, Caroline Apologies: Lorian, Jamie, Pete 1. If...
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October Meeting

Agenda: Greenpeace meeting: Thursday 1st October 2009: 8pm risc Reading 1. Welcome, introductions and apologies.2. Climate Campaign - Airplot – Campaign...
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Carbon Capture and Storage - looks like it's going nowhere

Bad news for anyone who thinks Carbon Capture and Storage is a magic bullet that's going to rescue us from climate chaos ...Spending crisis could put brake on...
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Hooray, everyone agrees....

So, China, the US, Japan... (even British Airways!) ... it looks like everyone accepts that something has to be done to prevent runaway climate change.  Is...
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Ed's Pledge

Along with 10:10 we should all sign up to Ed's Pledge.  While 10:10 has the objective to provide extra pressure to drive UK climate commitments for Copenhagen...
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Climate Change 'Philosophical Belief'

This story in today's Guardian is too depressing.The crux of the story is that a senior executive, Tim Nicholson, of Grainger plc, was unfairly dismissed as a...
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September 3rd Meeting

Facilitated by BrianAgenda Apologies and Introductions Climate Campaign (Airplot, Coal, Climate Camp, Vestas IOW, 10:10) Forests (Update, Corned Beef) Peace...
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10:10 the Campaign

Masterminded by Franny Armstrong, director of The Age Of Stupid, is a new initiative to encourage individuals and organisations to commit to a 10% reduction of...
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Airplotting in Newbury

Last Saturday 7 of us were campaigning in Newbury and signed up 50 new airplotters as beneficial owners of the piece of land in the centre of Sipson where the...
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Quote of the Day

If the biosphere is wrecked, it will be by nice, well-meaning, cosmopolitan people who accept the case for cutting emissions, but who won’t change by one iota...
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Saturday 8th August Peace Pilgrimage to Aldermaston

64 years ago this week, the world was witness to a devastating first,namely the dropping of US atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  In memory of these...
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