The outcome of COP16, in spite of the government of Bolivia and the determination of indigenous peoples world-round, was the passage of several capitalist accords to decrease climate change by 2 degrees. Here are some of the contentious issues that have developed. […]
After a public comment period that came out 3-to-1 opposed to having the bear hunt, Governer Chris Christie of New Jersey ordered the first bear hunt in 5 years to commence anyway. On the first day of the hunt (Monday), a staggering, […]
Members of La Vía Campesina from more than thirty countries from all over the world united our thousands of struggles in Cancun to demand environmental and social justice, and respect for Mother Earth at the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 16). […]
The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. Clickhere for more.
Hundreds of people turned out in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday night to listen to details about an aluminum waste landfill proposed for a site next to the Maury County airport. There were no decisions made at this hearing. Residents have until Jan […]
Vandals glued all the door locks shut at the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency’s building and threw a brick through a glass door overnight Monday, an agency official said. The agency is considering a permit for a controversial biomass project near Shelton. […]
Indigenous plaintiffs from the Peruvian Amazon won their appeal today in the landmark human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit against U.S. oil giant Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the case should be […]
About 150 protesters spent the weekend near Muswellbrook, Australia, at ”Climate Camp” to draw attention to Macquarie Generation’s coal-fired Bayswater power station, one of the nation’s largest and the proposed site for a second baseload power plant. Sixty-seven people were arrested there […]
Nigeria Vs. Halliburton “Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on bail […]
COP-16 After Mexican President Calderon proclaimed that the failure of COP-16 in Cancun would be a “tragedy,” it was revealed that neither Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva nor British Prime Minister David Cameron are even going to show up, raising […]