Action on climate emergency
Drax protestors freed – fifteen people appeared before Leeds Magistrates Court on 22 September following their pre-emptive arrest last summer, amid plans to hold a climate change camp near Drax power station. By the end of the day they walked free as charges were thrown out after their lawyers argued there was insufficient evidence against …
Their profit – our loss is clear as the Norwegian state owner of the Rosebank oilfield off Shetlands has announced that it made £24 billion in global profits last year and plans to cut billions from its spending on green energy. At the end of January a Scottish court ruled that the earlier consent for …
Oil project must count full climate impact was the Supreme Court in London’s ruling on 20th June that a local council should have considered the full climate impact of burning oil from new wells. This could be a landmark decision, putting future UK oil and gas projects in question, including the Whitehaven and Rosebank projects …
Swiss women have scored a landmark climate victory in European Court as data showed that last month was the warmest month on record. Coinciding with temperature records have been broken ten months in a row, a group of Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. …