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Starmer urged not to U-turn on new North Sea oil and gas ban

Following yesterday’s post, we have another Guardian article urging Labour to stand by its radical energy and decarbonisation proposals… Starmer…

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Labour’s oil and gas ban shows it’s ready to fight the next election on climate issues

The announcement by Keir Starmer, detailed in the Guardian article below, that he will ban all new gas and oil…

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Big Toxics and their lobby firepower

From Social Europe The chemical giants outspend even Big Tech and Big Energy on lobbying the EU—and it’s working. In…

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Labour: Stand firm in opposition to oil & gas

Please sign this open letter to Keir Starmer. Dear Sir Keir Starmer, CC: Angela Rayner MP, Rachel Reeves MP and…

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The European eel – a critically endangered species on the menu of top European restaurants

Alan Thornett (pictured with a trophy eel in 1949) writes: The most disastrous consequence, of today’s environmental crisis, is the…

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The Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Plant in the UK Burns Wood Processed in Poor, Black Communities in the US

From Novara Media by Simon Childs 10 May 2023 Drax power station in North Yorkshire. REUTERS/Lee Smith It is “no mistake”…

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Open up public participation in local government with Digital Democracy

From Birmingham Against the Cuts One of the key issues facing the WMCA, Birmingham City Council and all the other…

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Brexit is destroying what’s left of the UK car industry

Alan Thornett writes about another Brexit chicken coming home to roost with a vengeance. The electric vehicle (EV) multinational Stellantis…

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Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-year experiment in radical governance

From Waging Nonviolence An interesting long article with lessons for us. Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made…

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Great British Energy – a significant step forward – perhaps

Sean Thompson reports: In case you haven’t come across it before, We Own It is an excellent organisation established in…