Blogposts tagged 'Legal Challenge'

We get the green light from the High Court

Posted by jamess - 24 February 2011 at 6:17pm - 8 Comments
We put the yellow pod on Chevron's anchor chain to stop their drill ship
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace
We put the yellow pod on Chevron's anchor chain to stop their drill ship

It’s on. Today the High Court gave the green light to our legal challenge against new licenses for deep water drilling in UK waters.

Article tagged as: chevron, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, hess, judicial review, legal challenge, oil

We take the government to court over oil drilling

Posted by jamess - 12 November 2010 at 2:07pm - 3 Comments

We've taken the government to the High Court in a bid to stop offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Our lawyers filed a claim at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning seeking to stop the issuing of new licences for deep sea drilling until the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion have been properly established.

Article tagged as: BP, chevron, go beyond oil, government, high court, legal challenge, oil spill

Legal challenge has Heathrow third runway in its sights

Posted by christian - 8 April 2009 at 11:03am - 5 Comments

We're taking the government to court. Again. This time it's over the third runway at Heathrow, and we're working as part of a coalition of groups that represent millions of people. NGOs, local councils and London local government bodies are all banding together to put a spanner in the works for the expansion plans.

Article tagged as: aviation expansion, BAA, climate change, heathrow, legal challenge

You've got to build runways...

Posted by christian - 24 February 2009 at 2:41pm - 4 Comments

Stansted high court challenge
Campaigners took their opposition to Stansted expansion to the courts today, but are there other reasons to think it might never happen?

Another day, another airport expansion. It's a bit like the opening to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - as Arthur Dent lies in front of the bulldozers to protect his house from being flattened to make way for a road, the man from the construction company berates him: "What do you mean, why's it got to be built?" he says. "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses." Substitute runway for bypass, and comedy morphs into reality.

Article tagged as: airplot, aviation, aviation expansion, BAA, DFT, legal challenge, stansted

Leaked legal documents say the government is open to challenges over new nuclear power

Posted by niall - 17 November 2008 at 11:29pm - 0 Comments

The government would have you believe that all is well in the world of nuclear power. That the path to building more of them in the UK is smooth and care-free.

It isn't. We know this because we're keeping a keen eye on the whole process. A very keen eye. And Greenpeace investigations have exposed that the path is not as smooth as the government will have you believe.

Legal advice from top lawyers says that the government's nuclear plans are open to a number of challenges, on a number of fronts, over a number of years.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy white paper, legal challenge, nuclear, nuclear power, public consultations
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