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22nd October 2010 | Issue 744 - CRUDE BUT REFINED - Utmost secrecy, activist goodie bags and sheer determination shut down the Corydon oil refinery in Essex - the UK’s busiest oil refinery - last week in one of the most well-planned actions the climate justice movement has seen so far - Crude Awakening.

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20th December 2009 | Issue 702 - NOT A HOPENHAGEN - In the end there was no deal on the table in Copenhagen and COP 15 was the big global cop-out we expected.

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11th December 2009 | Issue 703 - ONCE YOU COP YOU JUST CAN'T STOP - Going to COP15 at the weekend? Wondering which pair of socks to bring? A space-hopper and a peace flag or a gas-mask and a bag of transit wheel nuts? Ask no longer as SchNEWS brings you our prepare-for-action guide to the week long climate protest in Denmark...

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20th November 2009 | Issue 700 - GOOD COP BAD COP - The COP15 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen - considered the most important climate talks since Kyoto - hasn't even happened, but still the US and China have agreed to not make any agreements, leaving talks dead in the water before they've even started.

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23rd October 2009 | Issue 696 - SOOTY AND SWOOP - Over a thousand swoopers descended on Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station with a stated aim to shut the whole place down. Ratcliffe is a coal powered station owned by Saruman the Mighty, and Britain’s 3rd largest emitter of carbon.

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9th October 2009 | Issue 694 - SWOOPER TROOPERS - As the Great Climate Swoop descends on the coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-On-Soar near Nottingham..

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7th August 2009 | Issue 686 - BLOWING IN THE WIND - The campaign against the closure of the wind turbine manufacturer Vestas’ site in the Isle of Wight, instigated by sacked workers occupying the factory two weeks ago (see SchNEWS 685), has continued this week with a broad coalition of activists and locals assembling to show solidarity with the workers.

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7th August 2009 | Issue 686 - BLOWING IN THE WIND

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29th August 2008 | Issue 644 - PEAK SPOIL - When it comes to fears of peak oil, the problem might not be that we’re going to run out of fossil fuels - but that we might not...

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Issue 628 - And Finally - As Plane Stupid uncover their mole - James Bond wannabe and public school prat Toby Kendall...

For the full hilarious account of this botched infiltration click here

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4th April 2008 | Issue 627 - ONLY FUELS & HORSEPLAY - Despite a national day of action against Climate Change on 'Fossil Fools Day', Gordon Brown was still the biggest clown.

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28th March 2008 | Issue 626 - TERMINAL DISASTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - Yesterday was the start of another inglorious chapter in the story of air travel as Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) officially opened. After the whopping £4.3 billion spent on essentially a better-lit new cattle shed, it should have been a red letter day for British Airways. But the only red on show was that of hundreds of ‘Flashmob’ protesters who – having previously milling around the check-in areas looking innocuous - simultaneously ripped off their over-garments to reveal matching red t-shirts emblazoned with the simple message, “STOP AIRPORT EXPANSION”.

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7th December 2007 | Issue 613 - The Day After Tomorrow... as mainstream climate change campaigns wade in with... demands for better environmental legislation!

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Oct 2007- 'Englands green & pleasant landings'

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27th July 2007 | Issue 598 - GO - the international carbon emissions game.

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13th July 2007 | Issue 596 - SMOTHER EARTH - SchNEWS looks at some of the techno-fixes planned to combat climate change - as opposed to tackling the causes of it...

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23rd Feb 2007 | Issue 577 - FOREST GRUMP - as
SchNEWS uproots the carbon offsetting myth

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10th Nov 2006 | Issue 568 - GOIN' UNDER - a drop of strewth in an ocean of bullshit as Australia has record droughts...

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3rd Nov 2006 | Issue 567 - The Stern Report sinks in...

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25th August 2006 | Issue 557 - Coal powered climate change...

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2nd Aug 2006 | Issue 553/554 - WING & A PRAYER - Air today, gone tomorrow for jet set society...

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2nd Aug 2006 | Issue 553/554 - PROFITS OF DOOM- So are the most powerful institutions on our planet slamming on the economic brakes before we get to the cliff edge? Er no, they’re plotting ‘profit-driven’ solutions to the oncoming tumble into the abyss...

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29th June 2001 | Issue 311 - EMISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - “The unsigned Kyoto protocol is becoming a carbon trade deal dominated by businessmen desperate for a piece of the new market in trading.” - Rising Tide UK

In the lead up to the next month’s climate change talks in Bonn, the European Union has published draft plans for an “emissions trading” scheme which they hope will be up and running by 2005. But what we’re getting here is not a solution to climate change but essentially a market for buying and selling the right to pollute.