Babylonian Times
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Special Report
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Oil the way to the bank - The story ot the Sea Emporess oil spill
A special report by Corporate Watch on the Sea Empress 'disaster'. It is a story of criminaI negligence, of corporate profiteering and - in the words of one local MP -"cretinous idiocy".
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Features
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Landmines: Hidden and Deadly
The UK Working Group on Landmines (UK WGLM) have been campaigning on for years: the production, stockpiling and sale of landmines. Xanthe Bevis finds out that as the voice calling for a global ban gets louder, there are still loopholes for the industry to carry on its deadly trade ... |
The Arms Conversion Programme
With the end of the cold war the global market in military hardware has, mercifully, entered a long period of decline. For the UK, however, where a huge community has been employed, directly or indirectly, by the defence sector, this has led to unfortunate social and economic consequences, that could have been avoided.
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Nirex' ace in the hole?
In 1990 Private Eye ran a story which suggested that the new Parys Mountain mine on Anglesey should be watched carefully. The contractors for the development were Cementation Mining Ltd, contractors for Nirex at Sellafield and Dounreay, and the unusual design of the mine was not entirely dissimilar to that of a nuclear waste dump.
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Talking Shop: Cross-Industry Lobby Groups
European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT), Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Institute of Directors (IOD), The Roads Lobby |
THE ROADS PAGE
Reunion rampage - 'dozer dancing, fence-downing, and decommissioning the tools of eco-devastation... Fare-well to Fairmile (and Trollheim, and Allercombe), A353-354 Weymouth Relief Road, Dorset, A650 Airedale trunk road, near Bradford and The A1(M)
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What's Wrong With: Tesco?
Damage to Local Business and jobs - These days most small local shops are struggling to survive, as customers are drawn to superstores like Tesco by their aggressive marketing, by their loss-leading promotions and by the impression Tesco gives of convenience.
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Tesco - Every Little Hurts
Tesco – bulldozing local opinion: "Tesco has a tradition of involvement with, and support for, the communities in which it works", boasts Tesco's 1995 Annual Report. Sadly, the reality is some-what different.
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Manchester Runway 2
The campaign against Manchester Airport's 2nd runway is gathering pace. Many direct action veterans have moved in to the camp on the site of the proposed runway.
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DIY Corporate Watching
Part 111- Using the media
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Campaign Updates
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