Ryanair had to cancel a marketing event at the University of Manchester Students Union earlier this week after students dismantled their promotional stall in protest against the company’s record on the environment and workers’ rights.
Nearly 50 years after permission was first granted to extract peat from Chat Moss, both Salford and Wigan Council refused on environmental grounds to renew William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd’s licence to continue extraction. Sinclair has appealed the decision to both councils, and a Public Inquiry has been launched to decide on the 10,000 year old moss land’s future.
Environmental activists staged a rooftop protest in the city centre on Saturday morning as part of a global day of action against reliance on fossil fuels, hanging a huge banner from the top of Shudehill multi-storey car park. The banner – five metres high and 20 metres long – read ‘Climate Change Kills’; a message [...]
Salford City Council’s Planning and Transport Regulatory Panel unanimously refused to allow the continued extraction of peat at Chat Moss at its meeting on Thursday 30 June 2011. The case has been hailed as a “landmark decision” which may set a precedent for other similar cases on peat extraction elsewhere in the country. Councillor Derek Antrobus, [...]
Arwa Aburawa and Marc Hudson of Manchester Climate Fortnightly comment on the lack of progress in the steady-state economy report for Manchester.
Yesterday saw the opening of a trial of six climate activists for their part in an action which temporarily closed Manchester Airport last May. The group are all pleading not guilty. On the opening day of the trial at Trafford Magistrates the court heard from two expert witnesses who spoke of the imminent dangers of [...]
Environmental activists who occupied tree-houses and barricaded themselves in underground tunnels during the long running protests against the construction of the second runway at Manchester Airport will be re-united at a public event this Thursday 17 February commemorating the 10th anniversary of the opening of the runway in February 2001.
