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Climate Camp protesters blockade Royal Bank of Scotland building

admin /2 September, 2009

Climate Camp protesters blockade Royal Bank of Scotland building

NB (This is literally getting stuck into it)

Activists superglue themselves together on City trading room floor in protest against investments in fossil fuel projects

Environmental activists based at the Climate Camp in London blockaded the local headquarters of Royal Bank of Scotland today, supergluing themselves together on the bank’s trading floor as part of a series of direct-action protests around the City.

Shortly after 8am, a group of demonstrators used stepladders and bicycle D-locks to blockade the main entrance to the building on Bishopsgate. A smaller number rushed inside and gained access to the second-floor trading room, where they glued themselves together.

Calling the action “an anti-banks holiday”, the group said they were demonstrating against RBS’s investments in fossil fuel projects, notably funding for the coal industry and tar sands extraction in Canada.

UN Chief ‘alarmed’ at glacier melt

admin /2 September, 2009

UN chief ‘alarmed’ at glacier melt rate

 

From correspondents in Ny-Alesund, Norway | September 02, 2009

Article from:  Agence France-Presse

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was “alarmed” by the rate at which the Arctic’s glaciers were retreating as he visited the region ahead of key climate talks in December.

Mr Ban said world leaders had a “moral political responsibility” to safeguard the future of the planet.

“I am very much alarmed and surprised to have seen these glaciers all worn,” he said as he visited the Ny-Alesund climate change research station in the Svalbard archipelago, located 1200km from the North Pole.

“Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we maybe virtually ice-free by 2037, even by 2030,” he said.

Greens, Libs fight wilderness mining

admin /2 September, 2009

Greens, Libs fight wilderness mining

Posted 1 hour 59 minutes ago
Updated 2 hours 1 minute ago

Mt Gee in Arkaroola region

Greens, Liberals both oppose Arkaroola wilderness mining (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary)

The Greens and Liberals are joining forces to urge the South Australian Government to keep mining out of Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges.

SA Greens MP Mark Parnell, Liberal Senator Nick Minchin and the state Liberal MP Iain Evans are holding a forum in Adelaide today to push for an end to mining exploration at Arkaroola.

More than a year ago, Marathon Resources was caught illegally dumping waste there from exploration work.

Senator Minchin says he usually supports uranium mining, but it is inappropriate to mine what he says is one of the most beautiful parts of South Australia.

The Sermilik Fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world

admin /1 September, 2009

The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world

‘We all live on the Greenland ice sheet now. Its fate is our fate’

 

The Sermilik fjord

The Sermilik fjord, where hundreds of icebergs are calving from Greenland's vast ice sheets. Photograph: Philippe Roy/Getty

It is calving season in the Arctic. A flotilla of icebergs, some as jagged as fairytale castles and others as smooth as dinosaur eggs, calve from the ice sheet that smothers Greenland and sail down the fjords. The journey of these sculptures of ice from glaciers to ocean is eerily beautiful and utterly terrifying.

The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country. It has been frozen for 3m years. Now it is melting, far faster than the climate models predicted and far more decisively than any political action to combat our changing climate. If the Greenland ice sheet disappeared sea levels around the world would rise by seven metres, as 10% of the world’s fresh water is currently frozen here.

REPCO RALLY

admin /1 September, 2009

Repco Rally    BIT LATE FOR 7.30 report/ but protest as shown below anyway

The anti-Repco Rally protesters of the north coast are looking for your support. This weekend the Repco Car Rally is going to pass through national parks and the internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot of the Green Cauldron in North Eastern NSW.  Noisy, polluting, environmentally damaging cars are going to tear along the roads of some of the most beautiful parts of this state, containing endangered and vulnerable species,  during breeding time for many animals. As well as the cars there will be spectators and their vehicles, helicopters, media and extra police in the area.

PM’s Gorgon claims not backed by figures:Greens

admin /1 September, 2009

PM’s Gorgon claims not backed by figures: Greens Claims by Kevin Rudd that the Gorgon gas project must go ahead on anA-class reserve at Barrow Island so that the project’s emissions can besequestered in reservoirs beneath the island are undermined by theproponents’ own figures, Greens Senator for WA Rachel Siewert says. “Out of the nearly Continue Reading →

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