London Rising Tide

London Rising Tide and Friends descended on Chelsea Tractor country on Friday night in a protest against the G8’s pathetic attempt to “consider” climate change and to reduce CO2 emissions.

The Tigers and Clowns blockaded the E$$O station at Fulham Rd for over two hours to highlight Exxon Mobil/E$$Os role in bankrolling our future down the pipe. Their support for the Liquid Natural Gas pipeline coming to a city near you is paving the way for new Gas Fired power stations, locking us into another 30 years with these emission-spouting beasts. The emissions from these stations are comparable to the existing Coal Fired ones!

Last year 800+ people descended on a field near Drax power station and built a
sustainable camp without the help of John Inman (although he would have been there
if able)! This was a base for 2 weeks of direct action, workshops and skillsharing

At about midday, members of London Rising Tide (in support of the 'Plane Stupid' short haul callout) entered the CAA building (in Kingsway London WC2), and asked to see their Chairman Sir Roy McNulty to present him with a copy of the Tyndall Centre report on aviation and climate change.

TELL SHELL - HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL!

Join the Hands Off Iraqi Oil Protest at Shell's Annual General Meeting

Tuesday 15 May 2007
8.30am - 12 noon

Novotel London-West Hotel and Convention Centre,

Activists occupy Carbon Neutral Company While Carbon Neutral Company
Occupies Houses of Parliament, 21.2.07

Three activists from London Rising Tide today barricaded themselves inside
the London headquarters of the Carbon Neutral Company. The protest took

Climate justice activists shut down a Shell petrol station in north London today (18.2.06) as part of two international days of action against a Shell-led gas pipeline and refinery development in County Mayo, Ireland.

originally posted on 2005-07-09 06:34:36 +0000

This BBC piece (below) has a pretty sound take on what this action was about. We hope to have more detailed personal reports up here shortly...

Stuff happened in other parts of Scotland too:

originally posted on 2005-09-25 22:38:22 +0000

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We seem to have been preparing for it forever, but the G8 is finally upon us. My London life is sorted enough to leave behind for 10 days - I hope - and now it's time to pull together whatever courage and creativity I have. After all, this psychotic system needs to be dismantled and the seeds of new ones need to be nurtured, and fast. That's what I try to tell myself when the doubts and fears drop by for a chat every now and then.

11am We arrived at the Arts Council for the Press Conference to unveil the Platform organised Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa and his 8 mates hung by the Nigerian government at the complicity of Shell – who have still not been brought to justice for their role in this state murder. The full sized ‘battlebus’ by Sokari Douglas Camp is emblazoned with ‘Genocide against the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta’.