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Greenpeace activists shot at as climate conference opens
Posted by tracy on 3 December 2007.
We just found out that our colleagues in Indonesia were shot at while they climbed the cooling tower and loading crane of a coal-fired power station to hang a banner reading “Coal kills climate”.
Security personnel from PLTU Tanjung Jati B coal power plant in Jepara, Central Java fired five gunshots at the activists from the Rainbow Warrior, others pulled knives.
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Cooking the Climate
ASEAN cop-out: it's nuclear, 'clean coal' and business as usual
Posted by jossc on 24 August 2007.
Bad news from Singapore yesterday. Reneging on commitments to strengthen renewable energy development given at last year's meeting, this year's Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) energy ministers' conference ended in a colossal cop-out when they announced plans to develop both new nuclear and 'clean coal' power plants.
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Catastrophic climate change is not inevitable - the technologies that could dramatically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels – decentralised energy, renewables and efficiency, hybrid cars, efficient buildings – already exist and have been proven to work. If we start cutting our emissions now, using these ready-to-go technologies, then there is still a chance to avoid the most extreme impacts of climate change. Many of these videos illustrate how this can be done, as well as the likely consequenses if we don't try.
Manchester airport expansion plans halted
Posted by jossc on 13 July 2007.
Finally, some good news on climate change. Following protests and opposition expansion plans for three of our largest regional airports have been shelved. Manchester, Birmingham International and Luton have all dropped their plans to build new runways, marginally improving the UK's chances of meeting our long-term climate targets. They are respectively Britain's third, fifth and sixth busiest airports.
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