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United Kingdom: No Dash for Gas campaigners set up anti-EDF website
2013-03-10 22:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of environmental campaigners being sued for 5m by energy company EDF for occupying one of the company's power plants in October last year has launched a website encouraging EDF customers to switch to alternative providers as a gesture of opposition to the civil action. Members of the campaign group "No Dash for Gas" occupied EDF's gas-fired power plant in West Burton for a week in October last year, protesting against fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Last month, 21 activists pleaded...
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Corporate Research Chefs Combine Health and Science With a Dash of Culinary Genius
2013-03-08 09:00:59| Food Processing
With frozen meal options like Shitake mushroom risotto and Lean Cuisine butternut squash ravioli, food companies are employing chefs to keep their products innovative and interesting.
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EDF's vengeful 5m No Dash for Gas lawsuit is corporate and PR suicide
2013-02-28 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" The current answer to Alexander Pope's question is the power company Électricité de France (EDF). It is suing 21 climate change activists for 5m as a result of their week-long occupation of its power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire. In doing so it has made the biggest strategic mistake since McDonald's pursued two impoverished activists - and inflicted more damage on its brand than its critics had ever managed. The campaign against EDF's vindictive...
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Climate change No Dash for Gas the new, chimney-climbing face of climate direct action
2013-02-05 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last November, members of the newly formed direct action group No Dash For Gas were feeling pretty good. They had just completed a week-long occupation of West Burton power station in Nottinghamshire, forced French owners EDF to switch the power off and prevented the emission of 19,117 tonnes of carbon dioxide. In a cafe in London where she met me after work a couple of days after climbing down the 91m concrete chimney where activists had camped for a week, Ewa Jasiewicz said the group felt "really...
Last-minute dash for tax deadline
2013-01-31 11:46:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
More than 1.3 million tax payers have still to file their online tax returns by the end of Thursday, under the self-assessment system.
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