by Phil Taylor of the New York Times  The Interior Department today said it is beginning an environmental review for a first-ever leasing proposal to turn ocean currents off Florida’s Atlantic coast into renewable baseload electricity. As part of its review, Interior […]

from the Wall Street Journal By GUY CHAZAN A U.K. parliamentary committee said it had found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing, the much-debated process used to extract natural gas from dense shale rocks, poses any risk to water supplies and rejected calls […]

A recent report by the conservation group American Rivers declares that the 444 mile Susquehanna River, which runs through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland is the most endangered in the US. The cause: hydraulic fracturing (aka, hydrofracking, gas drilling, fracking). Fracking involves […]

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By Geoff Dembicki May 19, 2011 Source: the Tyee. Fierce First Nations opposition could very well topple Enbridge’s west coast pipeline proposal, a Washington-based energy expert argues.   “Native land claims scare the hell out of investors,” Robert Johnson told an Alberta energy conference, according […]

In New Jersey, call in complaints about “nuissance bears” are down to a measly 90 whining reports between March 21 and April 20. Compare that to the 305 calls the state Department of Environmental Protection recieved in the same period the year […]

by David P Ball on the Vancouver Media Co-op Canadian mining company Goldcorp – accused of human rights & environmental abuse in Guatemala – faced what may be its largest protest yet at its annual general meeting in Vancouver today. The colourful march […]

 KTLA News Four environmental activists dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse arrested outside Walt Disney Studios Wednesday have been released after posting $1,000 bail. Jennifer Binstock, 29, of San Francisco; Christopher Toomey, 52, of Redondo Beach; Blake Hodges, 26, of Irvine; and […]

Earlier this year, the Quechua People in the Peruvian state of Cusco, launched an ambitious plan to send 1,500 varieties of Potato to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle. It was first time Indigenous Peoples ever contributed to the […]

 By Anita Tucker Arkansas News Bureau Nearly two dozen 55-gallon barrels with labels indicating they contain chemicals used in the natural gas well fracturing process have been pulled from Choctaw Creek near the Van Buren County community in Arkansas. Clinton Mayor Roger […]