Protesters are first to be locked up in any of 10 countries hit by airport disruption campaigns this week
Eight people have been remanded to prison after being arrested at or close to Heathrow airport, making them the first to be locked up in any of the 10 countries where airport protests have taken place so far.
All were charged with conspiracy to interfere with key national infrastructure, an offence introduced last year to tackle disruptive protests by climate activists. Two others were bailed at a court hearing in London on Wednesday.
Dozens of climate campaigners were arrested for protesting the multinational bank's financing of new fossil fuel development.
Hundreds of activists, largely mothers and their kids, protested outside Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser's luxury apartment building in New York City on Saturday, calling for the multinational bank she leads to stop funding fossil fuel expansion.
There's a scene in Henrik Ibsen's 1882 drama An Enemy of the People that takes place at a public meeting. The residents of a spa town are trying to prevent a local doctor, Dr. Stockmann, from telling the truth about a factory that's polluting the local water supply.
Today Trans Mountain commenced operations on its new expanded oil pipeline system (TMX). It is a solemn day for us at West Coast Environmental Law, as we have been part of the massive social movement opposing this megaproject for more than 10 years, fighting for climate action, land and water protection, and Indigenous self-determination.
ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) — Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a newborn Blonde d’Aquitaine calf, the latest addition to his herd of over 300 dairy cattle.
