Why students should campaign for fossil fuel divestment
Glasgow students campaigning for divestment from fossil fuels. In October 2014, Glasgow University became the first university in the UK to commit to fossil fuel divestment. Photo: Ric Lander. Students…
BREAKING: Alumni occupy Oxford Uni to protest fossil-fuel indecision
Alumni of the University of Oxford are occupying the university in protest over its failure to divest from fossil-fuels. The University, under pressure to act on its major investments in…
Thousands march for climate action and against dirty energy
Art Not Oil protest BP's sponsorship of the Tate Britain. Image: Art Not Oil. Thousands of people took to the streets of London today to call for action on climate…
Breaking: Fracking and unconventional oil and gas halted in Scotland
Protesters at the SNP conference in Perth, October 2013. Image by the author. "From today there will be a moratorium on all unconventional oil and gas extraction", Scottish Energy Minister Fergus…
Extreme Energy Inquiry begins in Scotland
Green Councillor Mark Ruskell with local community representatives and Friends of the Earth members outside the Inchyra Hotel this morning. Image: Friends of the Earth Scotland. The UK's first public…
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…
RBS AGM: the Report shareholders won’t see
As private shareholders gather for the RBS Annual General Meeting in Gogarburn this afternoon, there will be an elephant in the room. The majority shareholder, the UK Government, whose portion…