Entries from Londonist tagged with 'climatecamp'
August 12, 2008
Everyone's at it: climate change activists have once again utilised the humble power of the superglue as a method of protest. Protestors glued their hands to the glass at the headquarters of coal giants BHP Billiton in Victoria, to demonstrate against further use of coal as an energy source. Fellow fans of the pun Oxford and Thames Valley Climate Action also held up signs reading 'BHP Billiton: undermining the future', in a peaceful protest......
Continue Reading "Climate Action Group Stick To Their Puns"August 10, 2008
Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been prancing around in your bikini and wellies: Philip Seymour Hoffman is soon to do something feel-good and directorial on the London stage. A man is to be charged over the Costcutter killing. Jesus is saving gangstas down in Croydon. A man has been arrested following a suspicious death in Greenford. Some protestors from the climate camp at Kingsnorth have been arrested following scuffles. Thousands have......
Continue Reading "Weekend Round-Up"May 31, 2008
Two aviation stories in one day? Reports reach us that a major protest is taking place this afternoon near Heathrow. Now then - the row over a third runway is well-developed. In one corner, pro-expansionists cite the economic benefits to the local area, to London and to the nation of improving an airport that is 98% full. The argument seems pretty water-tight to us (ignore the tourism deficit argument, it's fatuous). In the other......
Continue Reading "Ooh, aye, BAA, we don't want no third runway"