Trudeau Targeted by Pipeline Protest in London, UK Pressure continues to build on Trudeau to reject Kinder Morgan pipeline as UN climate talks enter second week Images available here London, UK – This morning concerned citizens from England and Canada staged a solidarity sit-in on the front steps of Canada House in London, demanding that… Continue Reading
BP attempts to silence Community Resistance to BP’s ‘Extreme Energy’ at Annual General Meeting
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, representative of devastated communities from Gulf Coast confronts BP board over failure to address environmental and social damage. Solidarity activists refused entry into the meeting. Suzanne Dhaliwal (UK Tar Sands Network) on +44 (0)7772694327 Today, outside the BP Annual General Meeting, UK Tar Sands Network, CoResist and… Continue Reading
Two Energy Futures: we don’t need fossil fuels to power the world
New interactive infographic based on latest research demonstrates that by 2035 everyone on the planet can have a high-quality lifestyle, fuelled by existing clean energy technologies Explore the infographic Today we are launching a groundbreaking new web resource, which brings to life two possible models of energy production and consumption for the year 2035. The… Continue Reading
Oxford Becomes Europe’s First ‘Tar-Free City’
[Post first published on the Tar-Free Towns website] June 25, 2013: Yesterday evening, in a near-unanimous vote, Oxford City Council declared itself a ‘Tar-Free City‘ by voting in favour of a motion (see below) tabled by Green Party councillor Sam Hollick. This makes Oxford the first city in Europe to reject the use of highly-polluting… Continue Reading
