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United Kingdom: Activists claim police siding with power company EDF in law suit
2013-02-20 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The energy company EDF is seeking more than 5m in damages from a group of more than 20 activists who occupied one of its power stations for a week last year, in an action campaigners claim could stifle the right to protest across the country. Some of the campaigners named in the legal case also claim that officers from Nottinghamshire police overstepped their role by helping EDF issue protesters with details of the civil action against them, including in one instance allegedly chasing a bailed...
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United Kingdom: E.ON lobbied for stiff sentences against Kingsnorth activists, papers show
2013-02-19 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK chief executive of energy giant E.ON repeatedly lobbied the then-energy secretary Ed Miliband and others over the sentencing of activists disrupting the company's power plants, warning that any failure to issue "dissuasive" sentences could "impact" upon investment decisions in the UK. The warnings, which came while the government was still trying to persuade E.ON and others to invest in next-generation nuclear plants, have been described by activists as "wholly improper". Dr Paul Golby,...
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Grisly Trend: Green Activists Are Facing Deadly Dangers
2013-02-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Where is Sombath Somphone? With every day that passes, the fate of one of Southeast Asias most high-profile environmental activists, who was snatched from the streets of Laos in December, becomes more worrisome. His case has been raised by the State Department and countless NGOs around the world. But the authorities in Laos have offered no clue as to what happened after Sombath was stopped at a police checkpoint on a Saturday afternoon in the Lao capital of Vientiane as he returned home from...
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Activists Rally Against Climate Change in Downtown LA
2013-02-18 04:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTLA: Hundreds of protesters marched on Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday as part of a nationwide demonstration designed to pressure President Obama into rejecting a Canadian pipeline that would bring oil into the United States. The local demonstration - led by environmentalist and actor Ed Begley Jr., Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar - was focused on rejecting TransCanada`s Keystone XL pipeline as a first step in taking action on climate change. Weve seen climate...
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Activists arrested at WH over climate change protest
2013-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Dozens of environmental activists - including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and actress Daryl Hannah - cuffed themselves to a White House gate on Wednesday in a climate change protest that ultimately resulted in their arrests. Chanting, "President Obama, we don't want no climate drama!" activists demanded concrete government action on the issue. Their first hope: the Obama administration's rejection of the controversial Keystone Pipeline XL. "We're out here saying, 'President Obama, you must reject the...
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