Blogposts tagged 'Parliament'

An emissions performance standard would mean no more unabated power stations.

We almost did it. Thousands of you emailed your MP via our website, WWF's, and with online campaigners 38 degrees. And they listened, and turned out to vote, and we almost secured an emissions performance standard - a legal limit to pollution which would have stopped dead any future plans to build dirty, unabated coal power stations.

If you've been wondering what the tweets and Twitpics about the dancers during the Parliament occupation were all about, here's the explanation. Yesterday morning, this group from the Power Shift youth conference staged a flashdance (like a flashmob but, you know, in the medium of dance) below the London Eye to supportaction on climate change.

They then upped sticks and crossed the river to repeat the whole thing in Parliament Square where the volunteers who'd spent a chilly night on the roof watching. Christian, who'd just arrived back from the action, says it really, really cheered them up.

(There's another video with footage from Parliament Square on the Guardian.)

Jess, our first intern, is first up this week in the blog relay - a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

Like many of you exploring the Greenpeace website, I have been concerned about environmental issues from a fairly young age. I have my parents to thank for that. But I've never been 100% sure exactly what I want to do about it. So when I graduated last year I decided as good a place as any to start was to look for some internships, to get an idea of what kind of jobs are out there. So here I am - an intern at Greenpeace. Their first one in the UK no less.

A detail from the Heathrow advert we put in the papers today

Tonight the House of Commons plays host to the Heathrow face-off. At about 7pm this evening, MPs will vote on a motion brought by the Tories and Lib Dems against the government's plans for expanding the airport with a third runway and a sixth terminal.

The stage is set for a bit of mud-slinging in the House. It'll probably be made worse by the fact that it's the opposition who has scheduled the vote - the government didn't want to have one. Because of the realities of party politics, even Labour MPs who oppose the runway will think twice about voting for a motion that's been put up by the ‘enemy'.