More campaigners are appealing against their convictions over the withholding of evidence gathered by undercover police officers The rising tide of unjust convictions will be back on the agenda over the next couple of weeks. The first case comes up tomorrow morning at the Court of Appeal when 29 environmental campaigners will have their appeal heard. They were invited to challenge their convictions...
lines to take' and meeting for post-dinner drinks Shale gas executives and government officials collaborated in private to manage the British public's hostility to fracking, emails released under freedom of information rules reveal. Officials shared pre-prepared statements with the industry last year before major announcements and hosted high-level dinners with "further discussion over post-dinner...
s remit can be found here and here . On Wednesday, Francis was questioned by Ellison for three hours over his claims. He was accompanied by Louis Charalambous , a lawyer from the London law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton who has been advising the whistleblower. Afterwards, Francis said :"I really hope that it will be a proper and thorough investigation of what I have been saying." For background on...
US conservationists says some of the mammals will be sent to captivity and most will be killed for meat Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins have been rounded up by Japanese fishermen and taken into captivity for slaughter in a town infamous for culling and killing the mammals, according to US conservationists. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said a pod of more than 250 dolphins including babies,...
Designer seeks 1m signatures for online petition calling for an EU law to declare environmental destruction a crime Fiona Harvey ...
Protester voices opposition to fracking as David Cameron visited a gas facility near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire on Monday ...
t cut bills The message from Downing Street could not be clearer: David Cameron announced on Sunday the government would be going "all out" for fracking , in an effort to bring to the UK the shale gas revolution that has sent gas prices plummeting in the US, and transformed huge swathes of its landscape. Cameron's plans involve a giveaway of millions to communities that allow fracking, through a scheme...
s lost £100m off its budget, like ours, that gets offered this cash incentive in business rates. The public involved in this, who live near the site, how can they trust the local council will make the right decision on this?" She also raised concerns about that government had not factored in the policing costs for the controversial extraction method. Sussex police said protests at a Cuadrilla-owned...
Guardian Australia: Activists blockade heavy vehicles sent to Maules Creek site to build roads and a rail line ...
s shale sector Hundreds of protesters were making their presence felt again at a fracking site in Barton Moss, Greater Manchester, on Sunday. Since November a hardy group of campaigners have been protesting at the site – where planning permission has been granted to energy company IGas to carry out test drilling – reflecting the fears of environmentalists that exploring for shale gas is unsafe. But...
s unconventional gas reserves a priority, offering tax breaks to shale developers and promising big benefits. This is in contrast to France where hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process by which shale gas is released, is banned. George Osborne, the chancellor, has argued that shale has the potential to reduce Britain's reliance on increasing expensive gas imports and create thousands of jobs....
s office in Oklahoma are "outrageous" and "egregious", according to the lawyer representing them. The authorities have already collected about 100 reports, including witness statements, surveillance video and other evidence to support the charges of terrorism hoax against the two protesters, Oklahoma city police told the Guardian. The charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years, has yet to...
s Federal Fisheries Agency, told Russia's Novosti news agency on Wednesday. "As such the Senegalese army continues to hold the fishing trawler Oleg Naydenov along with citizens of Russia and Guinea-Bissau at a military base in Dakar." In a further statement, Savelyov said: "I am far from the thought that this is some kind of crude revenge for the Arctic Sunrise's actions that led to the arrest of the...
s deployment, see this and this . In October 2011, the Guardian and Richard Watson of BBC Newsnight published evidence apparently showing that Boyling used his fake identity in the court when he was prosecuted alongside John Jordan, the environmental campaigner whose conviction has now been quashed. For background on how Boyling allegedly concealed his true identity from the courtroom, read this ,...
Canadian PM says he believes controversial oil pipeline will go ahead, despite pressure on Obama administration by environmentalists ...
Activists report seeing four dead minke whales on board one of the vessels before it fled without confrontation Oliver Milman ...
Greenpeace radio operator plans brief press conference at Hobart airport and has asked for privacy after his arrival Bridie Jabour ...
s attention to the fate of the Arctic and that's difficult to do because it's so far north. "All the science is telling us that if humanity carries on as it is doing, in 1,500 years the planet will be dead. I don't know how big a price you have to pay for that. The price we paid was jail, and Christmas away from home in Russia," he told the Guardian as he left Paris with fellow Greenpeace activists...
Six Greenpeace Arctic 30 activists leave Russia for home on Friday, three months after authorities seized their ship and arrested them following their protest in the Arctic Ocean ...
s completely relaxed and welcoming. My last memory of Russia is the border police woman who told me I should not be proud of myself. 'Why don't you do these things in the United States?' she asked. I said that I do and she said, 'Why don't you stay there?" Litvinov was one of 30 people who were arrested in September after a protest at a Russian offshore oil rig and spent two months in jail before being...