Fight to save woods from road development goes on...

climber writes: Living up 6 trees at weymouth - Two Mile Copse / Teddy Bear Woods. I helped fight against this road back in 1996, and 2004 and we won it then. BUT now they gone and done it and cut 70% of the trees.....We have a 400 year old Oak in Ancient Woodland that's are protecting and 4 Ash trees reaching 90 feet up into the sky. Also a tall and healthy young elm. We have a tree house, a net, lots of walkways in the sky and an off route visitors site on the ground. The people of Weymouth brought Two Mile Copse through public subscription. Local people dug deeply into their pockets and put their money into conserving the land for perpeturity, for us and all future generations. Dorset County Council have so far not given one penny in compensation, either to the Woodland Trust, nor local people who raised the public money to preserve the wood in the first place.... Full article.

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Campaigner Claims HEATH Project Damages Nature Site

Jezz Anbleydh writes: Natural "England" in its horrific HEATH Project, aims to destroy the intrinsic nature and character of the Penwith Moors. The National Trust is currently wreaking havoc near the Four Parishes Stone, south of Carn Galva. In this lonely place, where no vehicles, including tractors, ever go, are earthmovers scooping up and destroying great swathes of virgin moorland and heaping them over the medieval and post-medieval hedges to increase their height, all in the name of "stock-proofing". The damage being done to the natural habitat and visual amenity is horrendous. No attempt is being made to employ local hedging techniques. An eyesore is being created, with history, archaeology and wildlife habitat being destroyed. Full article.

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£400 Million Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Development "Carbon Dinosaur" About to Open at Langage, Devon

As the International Energy Agency issued a warning stating that; "Current global trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable — environmentally, economically, and socially..." and the author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, Michael T. Klare writes; "Fully 45% of the world's remaining [gas] reserves are, however, held by just three countries, Russia, Iran, and Qatar, while large amounts are also held by Algeria, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. This means, of course, that we face the same geopolitical problems relying on natural gas as we do with oil." Ignite writes; The latest carbon dinosaur is about to have an opening ceremony maybe next month or early in the new year. It is the Centrica (they were called British Gas PLC) £400 million development at Langage, just off the A38 between Ivybridge and Plympton in Devon. It would be good if people got together to educate and demonstrate the public's anger at yet another carbon monster being opened - The First in Britain for 5 years and the biggest one in Devon or Cornwall for 30+ years. Full article. (Image: Predicted global energy supplies from beyondpeak.com)

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Bristolians Set Off to Join Caravan to Climate Camp 2008

Caravanner writes; Heathrow to KIngsnorth Carvan - In the run up to the Climate Camp, there is a week long climate caravan...Together with their props and sensible footwear, a handful of people set off from Bristol this morning for the climate caravan. It starts off from the location of last years camp, heathrow airport, where a conference organised by HACAN, the local anti expansion campaign , who are holding a conference about direct resistence to the proposed third runway. The Climate Caravan will traverse London by foot, wheel and water looking at how capitalism and collective resistance to it since 17th century have set us on a path to the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in 2008. They will hear local tales looking at the heritage of the places we visit and how they have contributed to our journey to Kingsnorth. They will meet people taking collective action against the root causes of climate change in their community. They will share our experiences of taking collective direct action with those we meet and invite them to join us at Kingsnorth. Full article.

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