Tag Archives: Green Energy
COP15: Notes From Below
This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what [...]
Green Energy Benefits Workers
New research shows that renewable energy is safer for workers Workers employed in renewable energy producing industries are less at risk from workplace injuries than those in traditional fossil fuel industries new research reveals. Dr Steven Sumner of Duke University Medical Center, and Dr Peter Layde, Department of Population Health, Medical College of Wisconsin, have [...]
Vestas Still In Occupation
At time of going to press, workers at the Vestas Blades UK Ltd wind turbine manufacturers on the Isle of Wight are still in occupation. Workers took action on the 20th July, frustrated by the imminent transfer of production to the USA with the subsequent loss of 600 jobs, and also to highlight the hypocrisy [...]
