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Posts in July 2009

• Coal’s Judgement Day

  Andy Rowell

  Jul03

  A jury in the north of England will decide today whether 22 climate change activists who boarded a coal train heading to the notorious Drax power station are innocent or guilty. The accused had stopped a train carrying 42,000 tonnes of coal in June last year on its way to Drax in North Yorkshire, the…
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• Exxon Still Funding Sceptics

  Andy Rowell

  Jul02

  Do leopards change their spots? Of course not. The world’s largest oil company, that has been the leading funder of climate sceptics for a decade, is still continuing to fund the deniers, despite a public promise last year to stop funding organisations that “divert attention”  from the fight against climate change.

• A Nuclear-Tainted and Oil-Soaked Renewable Energy Agency?

  Andy Rowell

  Jul01

  So the United Arab Emirates has won the race to host the new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) beating off competition from Bonn and Vienna. Never mind that the UAE has the highest per capita carbon footprint in the world, a fact that had attracted strong opposition from other countries. Never mind that the UAE…
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