"The question is do we want do feed our cars or feed ourselves?"

As part of worldwide Food and Climate Change day, bristol rising tide writes; Biofuels, far from [being a] panacea [for] petrol prices and climate change, have added to the global food price hike by taking land previously occupied by food crops. A study by the University of Minnesota found that growing biofuel on converted rainforests, peat lands, savannas or grasslands created up to 420 times more carbon dioxide than it saved. Wheat Prices have doubled in the UK over the past year, and consumers and retailsers have so far managed to absorb this. But elsewhere in the world, people are going without wheat (and other staples) and bakers are going out of business. To iIlustrate this issue, a dozens bakers (rather than a bakers dozen!) will be following up Bristol Rising Tides demo in April of this year to illustrate the true cost of Agro-fuels. They will be at Tesco, Eastville between 4.30pm and 7pm. Ms Bread of Bristol Rising Tide said: "The question is do we want [to] feed our cars or feed ourselves?" Tesco has made false claims about the source of the fuel sold at its service stations, according to an investigation that found that the chain sold the most environmentally damaging types of biodiesel -Palm Oil - whilst claiming that it 's biofuel was sourced from relatively sustainable UK-planted rape seed oil. Full Article.

| Bakers to Stage Protest Outside Tesco | Tesco Agro Demo (from April 15) |Tesco green fuel ‘adds to climate change’ (timesonlone.co.uk) |Biofuels: Biodevastation, Hunger & False Carbon Credits (i-sis.org.uk) |

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"It's bitterly disappointing that a clean renewable energy project has been squeezed out by Europe's biggest energy company..."

Jim Duffy of Stop Hinkley writes; The rights to West Hinkley wind-farm have been sold off to Electricite de France who have already announced their intention to build one or two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point. The news follows a bid put in by EDF to buy British Energy who own ageing Hinkley 'B' power station but more importantly a parcel of land originally lined up for Hinkley 'C'. Your Energy, who today announced they sold the wind-farm rights, have fought continuous objections from British Energy, Hinkley 'A' and Hinkley 'B' also backed up by the Health and Safety Executive over the unlikely risk of wind turbine 'blade throw' to the nuclear reactors. They began the planning process in 2002 supported by various local environmental groups Forum 21, West Somerset Green Party and Stop Hinkley and with thousands of letters of support being sent to West Somerset planners. But objections, principally from British Energy, meant they had to drop plans for three of the twelve wind-turbines after West Somerset District Council rejected the original application in 2005. Even with the reduced nine-turbine proposal, British Energy continued the fight, moving on to object on a 'land-use' argument, declaring nuclear would be a better use of the land earmarked for the wind-farm.

Hinkley wind-farm rights sold to nuclear developer | www.stophinkley.org | Hinkley faces closure over missing safety system |

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Bath Event Guests Given 'Invites' to Highlight Campaign

Shalom Family Campaign for Social Justice write; Vince Shalom from Wales and three of his five daughters, Rachel, Rebekah and Jessica, (all immorally evicted by Crest Nicholson from their only Family Home at Cardiff Bay in Wales a few years ago), presented guests arriving at the ‘champagne tea event’, with an invitation of their own....Following the Family’s presentation, which undoubtedly had an elegance all of its own, the Family have subsequently written to the Chairman and the North East Somerset Council asking for some help. Serious issues are raised as applied to corporate sponsorship of the Bath & NES Chairman’s nominated Charities, whilst the same council is in dialogue with multimillion pounds redevelopment schemes such as the Crest Nicholson Bath Western Riverside Project... Full Article.

| Bath & NES A Family Request Please Help Us! | www.mvpicton.co.uk | Other Bath News: Leftism and Bubbling Under in Bath | Bath Protest for Affordable Homes |

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Josh Hart of Arctic Associates writes: It hasn’t been an easy week for the organisers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and the Bristol Museum, or their sponsor and proud wildlife destroyer— sugardaddy Shell Oil Company. All week, concerned individuals from around Bristol have been exposing the truth about Shell and the public institutions who are helping to greenwash them....On Friday evening, Bristol Museum hosted a private, posh wine and cheese reception to kick off their hosting of Shell’s exhibit, with attendees including Dawn Primarola, Labour MP from South Bristol and Helen Holland, leader of the Bristol City Council, who were all patting themselves on the back for caring about wildlife. Bristol Rising Tide activists, dressed up to the nines, were admitted to the event under fake names, with one activist gaining access to the mic, and posing as the Shell public relations director. He then launched into a two minute speech (in the style of the yes men) thanking the city council and museum for helping to allow Shell’s destruction of wildlife to continue and calling the melting of the Arctic ice cap a “tremendous business opportunity” by allowing access to millions of barrels of oil under the ice cap. Amazingly the mic was kept on through the entirety of the speech....Saturday saw a highly successful and well-attended protest, marking the opening of the SHELL sponsored Wildlife photographer of the year exhibition. Dozens of humans, about a dozen polar bears, a snow leopard, and a tiger gathered, complete with the Wild Lie counter-exhibit. Protesters gathered in front of the museum, handed out leaflets, creating quite a spectacle. Some eventually made their way into the exhibition hall, where Shell’s crimes were recounted, and a die-in took place to symbolize all the wildlife who have been killed because of oil greed, and who continue to suffer the effects of climate change. The protest, organized by Bristol Rising Tide, Friends of the Earth, and People and Planet, showed that Bristolians will not be quiet in the face of corporate greenwash in our public institutions. Full article.

| Shell Oil and the Institutions Greenwashing Them Feel the 'Heat' on Climate Change | Video of fake Shell "public relations director" at Bristol Museum reception (the video is a mobile phone video 3GP file; you can use Real Alternative or QuickTime to view it!) | Bristol Citizens Join ‘Wildlife’ To Protest Shell’s 'Wild Lie' | Polar Bear Disrupts National BBC Wildlife Magazine HQ | Related Links (not on Bristol Indymedia): Arctic Ice Free by 2013 | Tragic History Museum | Art Not Oil | Shell Wildlife Destroyer of the Year", Friends of the Earth, October 2006 (PDF) |

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