We introduce the new "Shell Hell" logo, which underlines the piracy behind Shell's business ventures. For more information on their swashbuckling exploitation visit www.corribsos.com and www.remembersarowiwa.com
On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, especially Shell and Chevron.
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of this execution, activists from London Rising Tide, Rhythms of Resistance, Rossport Solidarity Camp and London Earth First! came together to take action against Shell for its activities in Nigeria, in Ireland and worldwide.
First Norwich Rising Tide action against the NDR
On a fine Saturday morning in May, 15 activists headed into Norwich city centre to hold a roving protest against the proposed Northern Distributor Road (NDR). Posing as members of the fictional Coalition for Roads And Progress (C.R.A.P), we held a series of mock press conferences outside the Forum, where the County Council are holding an exhibition about plans for the NDR.
Celebrate the cancellation of the aviation industry's airport expansion
plans, 6pm Tuesday Nov 29th, Tower Bridge
A coalition of local airport residents and grassroots eco-activists
requests the pleasure of your company to celebrate the forthcoming
cancellation of the aviation industry's airport expansion plans at: The
Institute of Economic Affairs' Gala Dinner at London's luxurious Tower
Bridge Walkways.
ART NOT OIL 2006
CALL FOR ENTRIES
First Prize: Justice
Second Prize: Survival
2006 looks like being another year when the gulf between what oil companies do and what they say grows even wider. Iraq is still in flames, with hungry oil executives eager for the insurgency to be locked down enough to give themselves easy access to the privatised prize of its oil. Hurricanes, droughts and freak heatwaves are all gathering speed. And more and more people are noticing the seasons turned on their heads or nursing quiet terrors about what sort of destabilised world we’re hurtling towards.
“The future is unwritten, inaction is the tragedy.”
National Grid's gas-guzzling giant pipeline is badly behind schedule due to a combination of determined protests and rugged landscape. They will be penalised with hefty fines if they don't complete the project on time, so they are pulling out the stops - doubling the number of diggers they use from 200 to 400 and working in 4 places at the same time.
There might not be any pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for National Grid. Phase 1 of the project, from Milford Haven to Ffelindre, is 90% complete, but phase 2, from Ffelindre to Tirley in Gloucestershire, is far from.
...spotted in London, 7.3.07
A satirical website created by climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle (Australia) has twice been shut down this fortnight by powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council.
National Grid are building a huge new gas pipeline across South Wales. The project is dangerous and undemocratic. Come and join the growing wave of protests against it.
 |
The gas won’t be coming from the North Sea fields. It is coming all the way from Qatar in massive supertankers to Milford Haven Harbour. Then it will be pumped through the 120-mile long pipeline to Gloucestershire.
National Grid are building it. They used to be a public utility, but have become a private company. This £6 billion project is the single largest energy-project financing ever(1) and the terminal at Milford Haven will be the biggest LNG receiving terminal in the world (2).
