Banking on climate change
This is a guest post by Liz Murray, the Head of Campaigns and Policy in Scotland at the World Development Movement. You can follow WDM Scotland on Twitter What do…
My arrest at Bell Pottinger
By Tara Clarke “What’s someone young and pretty like you doing here?” a female detention officer questioned as she secured my handcuffs before taking me to my cell. I had…
“Recycle and Reward” – Let’s rub our starry eyes and peer through the rubbish
This July, I joined the Hebridean Celtic Festival goers on the Isle of Lewis. A fantastic festival – from its celebration of the finest of Scottish music, community spirit, boost…
New Gas in the UK: Battlegrounds set at Balcombe and West Burton
The community campaign against Quadrilla at Balcomb, Sussex, is at a critical point. Images: Frack Off. As the drilling equipment rolls into rural Britain the public debate has begun, accompanied…
Immigration: a vital part of the solution to climate change
By Alex Randall. This post first appeared on the website of the UK migration and climate change coalition The Green Party in the UK recently came out in support of…
Iceclimb: when the Arctic is threatened, so is our civilisation
When people do awesome things to highlight vast global problems, sometimes it's easier to talk about what they did than why they did it. So it is with the six…
Falkirk gas wells to release 5 tonnes of methane a day
• Information obtained by Frack Off Scotland reveals plans to release 7000 times more of the potent greenhouse gas than previously claimed. • Over 2500 residents have now signed up…
After 160 years Central Scotland has had enough
The central belt’s fossil-fuel industrialists: James ‘Paraffin’ Young; John (Lord) Browne, BP; Mark Lappin, Dart Energy. When new technology offers us great promise – and the new gas boom certainly…
Monbiot's Feral: a futuristic environmentalism to enthuse us all
On my sister's Facebook biog, she describes the childhood we shared with one word: 'feral'. It should be no surprise that, for me, George Monbiot's new book of the same…
Why we disrupted Tony Hayward's award at the University of Birmingham
by Tom Wragg I was part of a group of students who disrupted the talk Tony Hayward gave at Birmingham this week. Tony Hayward has a record of disgraceful actions…