We were just getting ready to pack up for the weekend when news came through from our brand new African office. Barely have they got up and running and power company ESKOM has seen the light, abandoning a plan to...

Rumour had it that a homeless polar bear had showed up at the conference so I decided to check it out and see what people had to say about it. Check out the video....

Well we couldn’t end the week without one more EPR story, could we? Things continue to go from bad to worse in Flamanville, France, where EDF and Areva are building their ‘state-of-the-art’, third generation reactor. Yesterday we heard that the...

Here’s chief executive of Areva, Atomic Anne Lauvergeon, needing some affection: My dream is that in future we will be helped and defended by Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, as well as by Nicolas Sarkozy. And you have to think,...

We offer this jewel without comment: ‘…there is a direct relationship between energy used per capita and standard of living, and those who are practicing 100% conservation live in abject poverty.’ (Clinton R. Wolfe of Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness)...

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: 7th Space: DOE Cites Bechtel National Inc. for Price-Anderson Violations ‘Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Preliminary Notice of Violation (PNOV) to Bechtel...

Our Danish team have just beamed messages onto the coal power plant at Ensteadverket. They have been blocking coal production at Northern Europe’s biggest coal terminal for the last three days and urging the Danish government to “Quit Coal”...

Yesterday, we told you about the “Yes you Must” campaign that French activists launched to a encourage President Sarkozy to take leadership on climate action. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like President Sarkozy got the message. Last night, he failed...

Samtidigt som kollegorna i Danmark är fullt upptagna med att stoppa Vattenfalls kolimport och kollegorna i Polen sitter 150 meter upp i en skorsten på ett kolkraftverk så har jag nöjet att springa på ännu ett möte här nere...

As we said yesterday, EDF have confirmed that the construction of their EPR reactor in Flamanville, France will cost 20 per cent more than planned. The spin as to why costs have risen is, we have to say, mighty: The...

Our Danish team and Rainbow Warrior crew are still busy in the thrid day of action. Twenty activists who were blocking the conveyor belts of DONGs coal plant today have just been arrested, but the eight people in the...

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: Policy Forum Online: Obama and North Korea: The Road Ahead ‘Peter M. Beck, Professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and Yonsei University in Seoul, notes "several suggestions that...

Det som är så underbart med Greenpeacemänniskor är att ingenting är omöjligt. För en liten stund sedan försökte arbetare på kolskeppet som vi just nu blockerar i Aabenraa, här i Danmark att sabotera vår ”förnödenhetslina” till aktivisterna som håller...

There's a revealing article in the latest issue of Campaign (a marketing industry weekly) about morality and advertising. It's a thoughtful and honest piece, written by a senior industry professional - tackling the question, "If your personally held views conflict...

Update from Gavin (the head of our international climate and energy campaign) - who just got off the smokestack and is posting this stuff from his phone! All five of us have been arrested and are now in the back...