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Protest against Hydraulic fracturing and Cuadrilla meet in London

Cuadrilla met with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to discuss the recent earthquakes in Lancashire, prompting anti-Hydraulic...

by Guido Mencari in United Kingdom on 13/10/2011

50 Greenpeace activists protest on the roof of Westminster Hall in the House of Commons to protest against climate change. Westminster, London, UK. 11/10/2009

Yesterday around 50 Greenpeace activists managed to breach Parliamentary security and climb on to the roof of Westminster Hall in the House of Commons to protest against climate change.  Around twenty of the protesters stayed on the roof overnight and say they plan to continue their protest throughout today.

The protest was planned to coincide with the return of MPs after the summer recess.  As MPs returned for the first day of the new Parliamentary session they were greeted by the protesters who were asking them to sign up to a climate change manifesto.

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Greenpeace Parliamentary Rooftop Protest

50 Greenpeace activists protest on the roof of Westminster Hall in the House of Commons to protest against climate change. Westminster, London, UK....

by Simon Kimber in United Kingdom on 10/10/2009

Thousands of people have converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest. The organisers managed to keep the specific site a secret until Wednesday afternoon when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath, a prosperous suburb in South East London.
Recently climate camps have taken place most famously at London’s Heathrow airport and also at the, Drax power station in Yorkshire and the Kingsnorth power station in Kent.
A spokesman for the Climate Camp is quoted as saying
 'One of the main aims of the Climate Camp is to take direct action against the route causes of climate change. The City of London represents the epicentre of a failed economic system whose obsession with endless growth makes it impossible for us to move forward and deal with climate change. The targets have been chosen because of their enormous impact on climate change because of their promotion of failed market logic like carbon trading”
Now  the site is secured and the protestors are settled in for a series of workshops and meetings with the occasional incursion into the outside world to protest.
The police are showing a low profile perhaps after recent criticism in the media of their policing of the G20 protests in London in April and the previous climate camps.

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London Climate Camp 2009 at Blackheath London;

Thousands of people converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath, a prosperous...

by Terence Stokes in United Kingdom on 30/08/2009

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