Past press releases

1997

7 Jan -

Gummer congtratulates do-little newspaper industry



7 Jan -

Private roads cost more, but government gives go-ahead for three more projects



8 Jan -

Anniversary of newbury protest



12 Jan -

Deadly pollution levels soar in 1996



13 Jan -

Deadly mahogany trade set for control



13 Jan -

Newbury Bypass Reunion Rally



15 Jan -

Sellafield leak reveals Nirex plans on the rocks



16 Jan -

Swedish companies urged to condemn logging



17 Jan -

Mass London Rally To Support Traffic Reduction Law



21 Jan -

NIREX delay will save 282 million



22 Jan -

Traffic reduction law to get green light?



24 Jan -

TRAFFIC REDUCTION LAW GETS MPs APPROVAL



27 Jan -

Sir Leon Scaremongers over Waste Law



28 Jan -

Government announces flawed recycling laws



29 Jan -

New Road Threat to Devon Countryside Announced as A30 Protesters Break Eviction Record



31 Jan -

NIREX nailed by top government adviser



1 Feb -

Uk company told to quit malaysian dam scheme



2 Feb -

Nuclear Waste in Underground Water



5 Feb -

Foe welcomes labour's new guarantees on the environment



12 Feb -

The good wood guide



12 Feb -

Rupert murdoch ate my forest!...



14 Feb -

Prosecute the sea empress polluters - or we will



18 Feb -

Forest people condemned to deportation



19 Feb -

Countryside Commission calls for reopening of Salisbury Bypass Inquiry



19 Feb -

Road traffic reduction bill completes committee stage



19 Feb -

Countryside commission calls for reopening of salisbury bypass inquiry



21 Feb -

Last old forests being destroyed - companies named



21 Feb -

Destroyers of last old forests exposed



21 Feb -

Water companies must save water not waste it says FOE



25 Feb -

Leading Environmental Organisations Unite In Opposition To Salisbury Bypass



25 Feb -

Foe's response to Government proposals for environmental code of practice



27 Feb -

Foe repeats "prosecute or we will" ultimatum



27 Feb -

Government to back waste prevention bill



28 Feb -

Road traffic reduction bill passed by house of commons



3 Mar -

Proposed Recycling Laws Slammed



5 Mar -

Call For Independent Inquiry Into Control of Polluting Industries After MPs Lash Environment Agency



6 Mar -

Foe welcomes lib dem's green pledges



6 Mar -

Recycle 80 per cent of waste by 2010 challenges foe



6 Mar -

Labour and Tory Councils Fail on Waste Recycling - Europe May Force Improvements



6 Mar -

Red light for tewkesbury bypass



7 Mar -

Ten Days Left to Save the World



10 Mar -

Charter Will Fail To Increase Access To Government Information



10 Mar -

Groups angry as blair u-turn threatens vital energy efficiency moves



11 Mar -

Bill to Combat Fuel Poverty Goes Before Parliament, Top NGOs Give Backing



12 Mar -

Friends of the Earth Slams Major's Claim That Britain is "Clean Man of Europe"



14 Mar -

Road traffic reduction bill wins lords' approval



17 Mar -

Historic Victory Over Nirex - Major Blow Against Nuclear Industry



18 Mar -

Highways Agency admits serious damage to the countryside if any Salisbury bypass goes ahead



20 Mar -

Plan threatens one of europe's rarest plants



21 Mar -

Road traffic reduction bill becomes law



22 Mar -

Foe calls for action to protect our wetland habitats



24 Mar -

Salisbury Bypass: Alternatives cheaper and more effective says new independent report



25 Mar -

Environment spokesmen in first debate of the election



27 Mar -

City Centre Protest about Toxic Pollution from Industry



27 Mar -

Tory green manifesto: "nice bit of green, shame about the grey"



1 Apr -

Environment still suffering as watchdog celebrates 1st birthday



2 Apr -

Stand up for the south downs day walk - sunday 1 june '97



2 Apr -

Tory manifesto reaction, FOE pledges to fight tube sell-off



3 Apr -

Labour manifesto 'greener than tories' say foe



3 Apr -

Government receives thousands of objections to salisbury bypass



4 Apr -

Lib dem manifesto: "the greenest ever" says foe



5 Apr -

Foe warns regional electricity companies on climate change



7 Apr -

South downs 'wildlife showpiece' is ploughed up



7 Apr -

New report shows steady decline in wellbeing in UK since 1979



8 Apr -

Bakun dam: foreign investment unlikely



8 Apr -

Launch of sustainable cumbria plan after nirex defeat



8 Apr -

Report shows catalogue of accidents and near misses since sea empress disaster



9 Apr -

Chemical Warning Over Tinned Food - Cans Contain Gender Bender Chemicals



10 Apr -

Childhood cancer and leukaemia: new link to industrial pollution. john gummer presented with toxic challenge



11 Apr -

Farmer stops ploughing south downs wildlife site



11 Apr -

Foe calls on gummer to stop government-funded wildlife destruction



13 Apr -

Scrap the Bypass Programme says Friends of the Earth



14 Apr -

Council Tax Will Soar if Councils Choose to Incinerate Waste



14 Apr -

Prescott pledges greater support for south downs



15 Apr -

Environment agency moves to delay sea empress prosecution by foe



15 Apr -

Blair endorses campaign to stop "crazy" destruction of national wildlife site



16 Apr -

Bristol People Kept More Ignorant than Americans Protest at Cabot Tower



17 Apr -

Finnish Paper Deliveries Blockaded



18 Apr -

Locals 'unplough' national wildlife site following gummer's reprieve



18 Apr -

Euro report shatters john major's "clean man of europe" claim



18 Apr -

Gummer orders farmer to stop ploughing wildlife site



23 Apr -

Foe pickets general accident agm to stop investments in shell



23 Apr -

Oil companies' plans could lead to environmental catastrophe in central africa



25 Apr -

Shoppers say 'no!' to genetically modified food



28 Apr -

Tory environment record 'greyer than green'



29 Apr -

'man of straw' hogg in the stocks over failure to stand up for wildlife



29 Apr -

Green election challenge: final scores



1 May -

Foe questions abi decision to reject shell shareholders' resolution



6 May -

Shell environment report condemned as 'greenwash'



7 May -

Rtz to face environment and human rights critics at agm



8 May -

Local FOE campaigner goes to norway to stop midland toll motorway



8 May -

"don't invest in shell" foei tells prudential agm



8 May -

Finnish company destroys proposed russian forest national park



11 May -

Foe calls on agriculture minister to resign over conflicts of interest



12 May -

Case for Terminal Five crumbles as Inquiry enters third year



13 May -

Sea empress prosecution welcomed by foe



13 May -

Queen's speech: FOE tells Government to "act now" for the environment



14 May -

Queen's speech: missed opportunities for environment say foe



14 May -

Shell agm told: "stop wrecking the climate"



14 May -

'enough is enough mr prescott' as t5 inquiry enters third year



15 May -

Foe groups around the country protest at newspapers link with forest destruction



15 May -

Protest against newspapers' link to destruction of ancient forests



19 May -

Foe unveils water plan to save the environment while prescott holds summit



19 May -

Foe welcomes prescott's three week challenge to water industry



21 May -

New report shows 130,000 jobs could be created by traffic reduction bill



22 May -

Cynog dafis to promote national road traffic reduction targets as private members' bill



28 May -

Tax Waste, Not Jobs Says FOE



28 May -

'genetically-engineered food? no thanks!', say consumers



30 May -

FOE Calls for Traffic Reduction Targets as Summertime Smog Levels Soar



30 May -

Giant landscape sculpture goes up for the downs



2 Jun -

Radical new energy policy needed to beat climate change



2 Jun -

Waste Regulator Only Has Half The Resources It Needs To Do Its Job



3 Jun -

Destructive mahogany trade set for international controls



4 Jun -

Foe welcomes meacher's new leadership on climate



5 Jun -

Foe welcomes green speech by deputy pm



9 Jun -

Rural Transport: New Report Reveals Hidden Crisis



9 Jun -

Foe calls on Government to ban nuclear waste flights



11 Jun -

World bank president confronted by oil company scroungers



13 Jun -

Top rivers poisoned by sheep dip as Government secrecy hinders action



16 Jun -

PCBs and Dioxins in cod liver oil



18 Jun -

Mahogany fails to get cites listing



19 Jun -

Eu environment ministers face climate challenge



19 Jun -

Labour's Roads Review Fails to Scrap Worst Schemes



20 Jun -

Oil industry delays cleaner fuels



20 Jun -

Appendix iii listing offers little protection to mahogany



20 Jun -

Climate demon-stration at shell's gas bus launch with minister



20 Jun -

Public give massive support for key green policies



20 Jun -

Row brewing at g8 over climate change



23 Jun -

RTRA- Really Tragic Recurrent Apathy!



23 Jun -

Foe backs blair's tough talk at earth summit ii



24 Jun -

How to save money and help stop dangerous climate change



25 Jun -

Right to know law on toxic pollution



26 Jun -

Fine words from clinton no substitute for action



26 Jun -

Friends of the Earth releases 'Blueprint For A Green Budget'



27 Jun -

Five year review of earth summit reveals "scandalous betrayal" of rio promises



30 Jun -

Foe slams aa over budget claims



1 Jul -

Reduce vat on energy-saving goods say ace and foe



2 Jul -

Chancellor ducks climate challenge



3 Jul -

Foe welcomes water pollution charging announcement



4 Jul -

Larne lough lives!



7 Jul -

Labour hypocrites over cardiff barrage says foe



8 Jul -

Lead in drinking water



9 Jul -

Thousands to protest about road traffic fuming mad rally - saturday 27 september 1997



16 Jul -

South downs farmer prepares to destroy another 'protected' wildlife site



16 Jul -

Sea empress: FOE slams environment agency and consults its lawyers over private prosecution



16 Jul -

Cap reforms fail to tackle key issues of environment, food quality, diet and health



17 Jul -

Midland voters tell prescott "keep labour's promise - don't build the bnrr"



18 Jul -

Foe urges Government to cut radioactive discharges



18 Jul -

British energy agm: shareholders question board over refusal to heed official financial advice on reprocessing



21 Jul -

Sea empress: FOE's case sound but prosecution delayed pending clarification by environment agency



22 Jul -

New London Waste Plan Good for Jobs and Environment



24 Jul -

Death knell for thorp after nirex fiasco



25 Jul -

Britain's top green groups urge blair over roads review



26 Jul -

Sea level rise threatens top seaside wildlife areas



28 Jul -

"ministerial myopia over midlands motorway" say friends of the earth



1 Aug -

Ford slammed for wrecking the planet - protesters target new car registration launches



7 Aug -

Climate talks fail as usa and japan hold world to ransom



8 Aug -

Labour fails green test in first 100 days



10 Aug -

Picnic protesters call on Government to save wildlife site from the plough



13 Aug -

Worst smog of the year



13 Aug -

Scientists warn of hottest year ever as shell helps block climate change agreement



18 Aug -

Top journalist unlocks labour's transport gridlock



21 Aug -

Prescott prevaricates on transport policy



26 Aug -

Climate Campaigners On-Line



27 Aug -

Government should support landfill directive



4 Sep -

Abb pulls out as bakun dam flounders



9 Sep -

Congestion costs london housholds 697 per year



11 Sep -

Greens want grasses



11 Sep -

Dirty fuel dropped in national power u-turn



16 Sep -

Environment agency misleading public on water



16 Sep -

Illegal Water Pollution Rife



18 Sep -

Foe welcomes royal commission report



18 Sep -

Labour "wobbling" on traffic reduction promises?



19 Sep -

New deal set to save toad haven



22 Sep -

Wildlife shows global climate change is real



23 Sep -

Uk consumers fanning forest fires



23 Sep -

Ben elton to speak at fuming mad rally - saturday 27 september 1997



25 Sep -

Britons suffering health-threatening pollution up to one day in five



29 Sep -

Timber industry blamed for indonesian fires



29 Sep -

Labour in disarray on climate change target



30 Sep -

Action on climate change could create 226,000 new jobs



1 Oct -

New trading catalogue: wind-up radios and other sound gifts for the planet



1 Oct -

Welcome for labour nuclear and integrated transport reviews



1 Oct -

Local people and mps question quango's 'shameful proposal'



1 Oct -

Government indifference fuels indonesian forest fire disaster



1 Oct -

One in five top wildlife sites damaged in past five years



6 Oct -

Nature chief gets vote of no confidence over thorne and hatfield moors



8 Oct -

Sea empress - FOE criticises official report



9 Oct -

Farmers asked "WHY SOW WHAT YOU CAN'T SELL?"



13 Oct -

New briefing shows freak weather on the increase



13 Oct -

Car companies conspire to wreck global environment for profit



14 Oct -

"jams today, bigger jams tomorrow" unless Government backs traffic reduction says friends of the earth



15 Oct -

Green campaigners slam japan over global warming - demonstration outside japanese embassy



16 Oct -

10,000 houses get go-ahead in hertfordshire green belt



20 Oct -

Government slammed over vat on energy saving goods



20 Oct -

Climate change protest as shell celebrates centenary



21 Oct -

Meacher asks english nature chief to reconsider plans to end rare peat bogs protection



22 Oct -

Clinton Fails the World on Climate Change



22 Oct -

Foe comment on new "supercar"



23 Oct -

Foe welcomes moves by eastern electricity to combat global climate change



25 Oct -

Dixons in Green Dock over Waste



29 Oct -

Greens may be bad for you!



31 Oct -

End the 'smash and grab' of opencast coal mining say local communities



7 Nov -

Worst pollution for years hits UK cities



10 Nov -

Taxpayers face secret 30 billion bill from nuclear industry



12 Nov -

Disaster for the countryside as labour minister rejects higher housing targets for re-used land



14 Nov -

Task force must overcome industry resistance to cleaner cars



16 Nov -

Pro-nuclear minister acts to scupper wind farms in shadow of atomic plant at sellafield



17 Nov -

UK's top nature organisations call on government to protect wildlife



18 Nov -

New Research Shows Industry Slow To Respond To Landfill Levy - Call By FOE To Raise Tax and Extend To Incineration



19 Nov -

New public air pollution information system "important step forward" but action still needed to tackle traffic



19 Nov -

Uk must make massive reductions in consumption to avoid looming environmental crisis



19 Nov -

Uk must make massive reductions in consumption - new book sets targets



21 Nov -

FOE Rubbishes Reports That Recycling Is Bad



25 Nov -

Survey shows growing alarm over county council housing figures



27 Nov -

FOE Names Top Name Polluters Likely to be Hit Hardest by Water Pollution Tax



27 Nov -

Demo at us embassy over climate change: don't be a thanksgiving turkey mr clinton!



28 Nov -

International No Shop day



2 Dec -

Action needed as Moors are reprieved



3 Dec -

30,000 People Tell Prescott to Take Lead at Kyoto



3 Dec -

Opencast Coal Moratorium Must Follow Gas Moratorium



5 Dec -

Foe says "thanks for travelling by train and not by plane"



8 Dec -

World Bank Told: Stop Fuelling Fossil Fuel Addiction



8 Dec -

Friends of the Earth calls on Gore: "Read your book Al !"



8 Dec -

Friends of the earth slams prescott's decision to sacrfice west sussex countryside to new houses



8 Dec -

Government sheep dip proposals a sham



11 Dec -

Kyoto Deal Will Not Stop Global warming



12 Dec -

Waste minimisation bill set to become law



15 Dec -

Promise to protect amazon contradicted



15 Dec -

Action Needed As Moors Reprieved



15 Dec -

Timber Federation Misleads Public



16 Dec -

Christmas Costs Quarter Million Trees



16 Dec -

Foe hails "success" on genetically modified food



17 Dec -

Foe congratulates julia drown mp on introducing energy efficiency (information) bill



19 Dec -

Government wildlife agencies join call for moratorium on genetic engineering



22 Dec -

Nightmare noel for rudolph



23 Dec -

Festive fare foul? FOE talks toxic turkey



31 Dec -

New year cheer: 20 green victories from 1997



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