s plan to drill for oil in the Yasuni national park have collected more than 50% of the number of signatures required to force the vote, and are confident they will reach the total before the mid-April deadline. The collection of signatures is being led by Yasunidos, a newly formed group of volunteers seeking to overturn president Rafael Correa's abandonment of a plan to leave oil reserves unexploited...
t afford them? As environmentalism goes mainstream, corporations are marketing the word "green" as a panacea for the world's climate crisis. Today the word describes a set of prescribed, mostly consumerist actions: buy local, organic and fresh; go vegan; eat in season; skip the elevator, take the stairs. "Green" has come to mean shopping at Whole Foods and possessing a Prius. Meanwhile, leading corporate...
s biggest market for ivory and other illegal wildlife parts, had turned against the products in the past five years, he told the Guardian. Chan, an ambassador for the US charity WildAid , was speaking in London to launch a new primetime advertising campaign that will air on China's main channel CCTV and aims to persuade Chinese consumers to stop buying rhino horn. Chan compared the generational change...
notice. By the time the hearing was over, the judge had granted Cabot a temporary injunction barring Scroggins from all property owned or leased by the company. "It is hereby ordered that Ms Scroggins is restrained, enjoined and prohibited from entering upon property owned and/or leased by Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation including but not limited to well sites, well pads and access roads," the injunction...
Vera Scroggins has been campaigning against fracking for shale gas in Pennsylvania for years. Now, the industry is fighting back and has obtained an injunction that bans her from stepping foot onto any land leased by Cabot Oil & Gas, effectively banning her from hundreds of square miles of land Suzanne Goldenberg ...
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River close to where Seeger lived in a log cabin he built himself in the 1940s was main focus of his environmental activism Suzanne Goldenberg ...
s support David Cameron is losing the battle for public opinion over fracking for shale gas because of high-profile public protests against the controversial technique, polling suggests. The latest results of a long-running survey on British attitudes towards shale gas , undertaken by YouGov and commissioned by the University of Nottingham, show an increase in the number of people opposed to fracking...
borders on farce' after co-defendant was revealed as undercover officer Prosecutors have been accused of behaving "ludicrously" by concealing the cause of a miscarriage of justice in which an undercover police officer is alleged to have used his fake identity in court to hide his covert infiltration. Prosecutors have agreed that an environmental campaigner's conviction for assaulting a police officer...
Guardian Australia: more than 120 people on Tuesday blockaded entries to the $767m Maules Creek project, near Boggabri, and attached themselves to bulldozers. These are their photographs ...
s conviction should be quashed, but have refused to explain why. On Monday, at Southwark crown court in London, lawyers for Jordan will argue that he has a right to be told why he has been belatedly acquitted. Three media organisations – the Guardian, BBC's Newsnight and the Press Association – will also argue that there is a strong public interest in revealing the explanation. The number of campaigners...
s time at the helm of Burberry she's taken a 158-year-old label and turned it into a leading luxury brand for the 21st century. But Burberry has been left behind the curve in one respect – the harmful chemicals that can be found in its clothes. Greenpeace's Detox campaign has already signed up 18 of the biggest major international clothing brands, from Adidas to Zara, to remove toxic chemicals from...
s fracking pioneer – moved in to drill an exploratory well to see whether oil could be produced from the site. At the height of the protests, thousands of people joined in the march on the site, and the direct actions taken included protesters blocking the road and chaining themselves to barriers. There were dozens of arrests, including that of the Brighton Green MP, Caroline Lucas . Cuadrilla had...
Elders call on Greg Hunt to halt works at NSW mine for 48 hours ‘to save burial sites and sacred places’ from bulldozers ...
Court of appeal to rule whether undercover Metropolitan Police officer's involvement means coal activists should have convictions dropped ...
s 'Trotskyite' jibe against green activists follows a long Tory tradition of commie-baiting. Let's embrace it You'd better love fracking. You don't want to be called a "Trotskyite", do you? Lord Deben, the government's independent adviser on climate change, (aka the Conservative ex-minister John Selwyn Gummer), has warned that green campaigners with "extremist" views close to Trotskyism are putting...
total failure' to disclose evidence gathered by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy A group of environmental protesters have had their convictions overturned after senior judges ruled that crucial evidence gathered by an undercover police officer was withheld from their original trial. The 29 protesters were convicted in 2009 after they blocked a train carrying coal from going into the Drax power...
national security' apparatus is being bought off by Big Oil to rout peaceful activism Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists. Activists tarred with the same brush In late 2013, official documents obtained under freedom of information...
s murder. Other inquiries have reported – but in private. Next week, in what may be the most difficult case since the Guardian first exposed the infiltration of undercover police into environmental activists...
views on fracking are 'nonsensical' and risk consensus on climate change The battle against global warming is being put at risk by far-left extremists in the green movement who are resisting a moderate consensus on issues such as fracking, the government's independent adviser on climate change has warned. Lord Deben, who is chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, said those who condemn fracking...