Drax train hijackers planning to turn trial into second protest  Last News from Earth Stream com about Forward thinking Back to the Future - Earth
Search :
Press Review of the Earth from the most relevant websites. Keep in touch with the Earth and your future !
Flux RSS Earth Try our segmented RSS Feeds
GREEN CAR GREEN LIVING CLEAN ENERGY COMMUNITY AND POLITICS NATURE AND CLIMATE POLLUTION AND WARMING CONTINENTSBACK TO THE FUTURE 
FORWARD THINKING - Back to the Future Press Review
Source : Guardian.co.uk
Drax train hijackers 'planning to turn trial into second protest'
Lawyers claim that 22 activists who took control of a 21-wagon coal train last year are bent on 'misusing the court process to continue the action'Climate change campaigners who hijacked a power station coal train were accused today of planning to turn their trial into a second public protest on energy policy and global warming.Prosecution lawyers claimed that 22 men and women who clambered aboard a 21-wagon supply service to Drax in north Yorkshire last year were bent on "misusing the court process to continue the action."The dock at Leeds crown court overflowed into the well as the group, aged between 48 and 21, pleaded not guilty to obstructing a railway engine contrary to the Malicious Damage Act of 1861.The court heard that they had carried out "a well-planned and orchestrated action," halting the train with red flags and fake railwaymen's uniforms precisely by a river bridge which they could use to climb on to the huge coal hoppers."They effectively took control of the train," said Richard Mansell QC, prosecuting, "and then started shovelling its coal on to the track below." Makeshift tents were erected on two of the wagons while other protesters manacled themselves to the train and bridge girders, using locks that police specialists did not cut through for 16 hours.The protest was aimed at greenhouse gas pollution from coal-burning at Drax, the largest power station of its kind in Europe, and fuel trains were disrupted for two days. Mansell told the jury of six men and six women that passenger and freight services had been disrupted, causing financial loss to several companies, and the clearing of the coal and ballast cleaning had cost £30,000.The court heard that there was a good-humoured atmosphere on all sides during the confrontation, which ended at midnight when a specialist police team unlocked the last protester. One of the group, who are from London, Manchester, Leeds, Wales, the south-east and Scotland, had dressed as a canary. She car ...
less than 265 day(s) - Tuesday June,30 2009 @ 05:30 PM
More on Guardian.co.uk
Last news on FORWARD THINKING - Back to the Future :
 
Stavins on the global irony of cap-and-trade - Climate policy in Tokyo, Seoul, Brussels, and Washington
America sold the rest of the world on capping carbon and trading emissions.  But just as it is being embraced worldwide, the very phrase is an “anathema” here — an ironic turn o ... more
 
The Tories are fickle and nuclear is too big to fail | Simon Hughes
Nuclear power is where Tory energy policy falls down: confused, incoherent and lacking in credibilityLaunching the Tories' energy policy in July 2006, David Cameron, gave a convincing and well-re ... more
 
Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil
Lord Hunt calls UK industrialists together to discuss government response to any early onset of decline in global oil productionLord Hunt, the energy minister, is to meet industrialists in London tomo ... more
 
Harper Government Stifles the Truth
censorship.jpg The scandal is growing at Environment Canada of how Canadian climate researchers are being “muzzled” by draconian policies of Prime Minister Stephen Harper ... more
 
Tories announce plans for 'biggest overhaul of energy market since the 1980s'
The Conservatives have today (March 19) published details of an energy policy paper creating what they claim is the biggest overhaul of the market since the 1980s.
 
United Kingdom: Energy policy 'nowhere near' ready
Financial Times: Energy policy is "nowhere near" having the right framework in place to deliver the investment and job creation that will be needed to hit government targets for cutting gree ... more
Next news on FORWARD THINKING - Back to the Future    |    Subscribe       |   All Rss Feed   
Friday March,19
Policy Leader BroadHop to Showcase Mobile PCRF Solutions at CTIA
Dongle Users Suffering as Smartphones eat up all the Mobile Broadband Data
Sellafield to be inspected by nuclear watchdog, says Gordon Brown
Bluefin tuna loses out: scarce fish make a profit
Copenhagen was a step backwards and undid good work done since Kyoto | Pablo Solón Romero
Thursday March,18
Alcatel-Lucent Introduces Ultimate Wireless Packet Core to Help Service Providers Address the Explosion of Mobile Data Services on 3G and Emerging LTE Networks
Mexico: Cancun Climate Talks Get Dim Prognosis Nine Months Before Start
John Mashey: Crescendo Climategate Cacophony
Wednesday March,17
Simple Tools for Effective Climate Reporting
U.S. and Foreign Wind Energy Companies Creating Local American Jobs
Tuesday March,16
How clean cars and climate policy can create jobs
Driving growth: How clean cars and climate policy can create jobs
Stanford Study Confirms That “Balanced” Media Stories Quoting Skeptics Mislead The Public
Using Behavioral Psychology to Influence Energy Policy
A Down-Payment On America's Future: Green Technology Incentives For Innovation & Sustainability
Wind Industry Storms DC to Push for Renewable Energy Standard
U.S. and Foreign Wind Companies Create Good American Jobs
State Dept Unviels Public Opinion Website
Recycling still the most effective waste disposal method, report finds
Government rediscovers industry by funding nuclear firm Sheffield Forgemasters
Letters: Beef up our approach to food
Monday March,15
Energy-Efficiency Strategy Could Cut Household Bills by $450 a Year
Chu compares climate disinformation campaign to tobacco industry’s efforts - Energy Sec also says "we will not be economically competitive" if we don't price carbon in a comprehensive clean energy bill
Open letter to U.S. government from over 250 U.S. scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports - "None of the handful of mis-statements (out of hundreds and hundreds of unchallenged statements) remotely undermines the conclusion that “warming of the
Open letter to U.S. government from over 250 U.S. scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports - "None of the handful of mis-statements (out of hundreds and hundreds of unchallenged statements) remotely undermines the conclusion that “warming of the
Open letter to U.S. government from over 250 U.S. scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports - "None of the handful of mis-statements (out of hundreds and hundreds of unchallenged statements) remotely undermines the conclusion that “warming of the
No, This Is Why You're Fat!
Economists: Graham-Kerry's Sector-Specific Approach to Carbon Limits is Less Efficient
Energy Sec Chu compares climate disinformation campaign to tobacco industry’s efforts - If we don't price carbon in a comprehensive clean energy bill, "we will not be economically competitive"
Bridgewater Showcases Industry Leading LTE Control Plane Interoperability at Global MultiService Forum Event
Sunday March,14
Fishing in troubled waters | Sylvia Earle and Susan Lieberman
Saturday March,13
Government revisiting restrictions on blood donations by gay men
HF Financial Corp. Announces Adoption of Majority Voting Policy
Friday March,12
Study shows tax payers subsidizing ethanol at $4.18 per gallon

Results 1 to 40 of about 1385 news.

Subscribe to FORWARD THINKING - Back to the Future      |   All Rss feed   
Home | Webmaster | Link & Partner

© 2007-2009 All-Stream