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Environment Agency says incinerator is 'best available technology' (May 2012)
The Environment Agency is consulting on plans to permit a 25% increase in annual pollution from the Eastcroft Incinerator. The Agency has dismissed arguments from local residents that 'best available technology' should be able to reduce permitted... More >
EDF-off: campaign to break the Big 6 energy company monopoly (Jan 2012)
On 21 January, people dressed as energy company representatives stopped shoppers at the Victoria Centre clock tower entrance to thank them for paying generously through their gas and electric bills to help the companies achieve record profits. A... More >
Throw a wet sponge at Eric Pickles (May 2011)
Our stall at this year's Green Festival had a new addition - Eric Pickles in a bin bag. In April, Friends of the Earth gave the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government a national award for "talking rubbish". In Nottingham in May we... More >
About us
About this group
From January 2012, we meet on the last Tuesday of each month (except August and December), 7.30pm, in the Committee Room at the Friends Meeting House, Clarendon Street NG1 5JD. All welcome. Our membership covers the Greater Nottingham area. Contact details are at www.nottfoe.gn.apc.org/contacts.htm which also has recent newsletters.
For our current news archive click 'Latest news' above. Recent activities have included:
- Supporting the campaign to defend Sherwood Forest and other woodland against government cuts and privatisation
- Supporting Nottingham Pro-Wind Alliance
- Sponsoring a discussion at Broadway Cinema after the film 'Gasland' on the threat of shale gas extraction coming to the Notts-Derbys border
- Campaigning for our local councils to 'Get Serious' about reducing climate change emissions
- Introducing 'cowmuters' to the Nottingham tram to highlight the threat to rainforests from importing animal feed
- Supporting Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill (NAIL) in campaigning to oppose expansion of Nottingham's Eastcroft Incinerator
- Campaigning for renewable energy, opposing expansion of aviation, and previous campaigns on biofuels, GM crops, local food, recycling, toxic chemicals, etc
Information on previous campaigns can be found on our old website hosted by GreenNet.
See also our Facebook site for Friends of the Earth - Nottingham.
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