Cross Posted from The Tee By Yves Engler [Editor’s note: This is the second of two pieces drawn, with permission, from Chapter 2 of The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy by Yves Engler, newly published. The first part is here. Engler’s next author’s event is […]
Cross Posted from The Guardian Environmental activists protest against the Keystone XL pipeline on 18 November 2012. Photograph: 350.org Hundreds of people who say they worry oil that would be carried theKeystone XL pipeline will accelerate climate change marched around the White House on Sunday, hoping […]
Cross Posted from Tar Sands Blockade November 19, 2012 UPDATE: 2:00 pm – From coast to coast, solidarity against the Keystone XL In Burlington, Vermont, and Fairfax, California, activists displayed banners decrying Keystone XL’s role in the ongoing climate crisis. “As communities […]
By: Jenée Desmond-Harris (The Root) — It’s not news that coal-fired plants cause pollution, and it’s not surprising that it’s low-income people and people of color who tend to live closest to them. But “Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People,” a new […]
Cross Posted from Pakistan Observer Chitral—The district administration of Chitral has imposed section 144 in Ayun valley banning all types of rallies and public gatherings following protests by the local people against cutting of trees in their area. The police have registered FIR against […]
Cross Posted from FOCUS Sofia. More than 200 people have gathered at the seacoast in the Bulgarian village of Rezovo, joining a cross-border protest and voicing disagreement with Turkey’s building a thermal power plant (TPP) a few kilometers away from the border with […]
October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France. [source][/source] Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah! Here […]
Cross Posted from Huffington Post By Mary Anne Hitt One of Appalachia’s biggest coal companies is getting out of the mountaintop removal business. In a landmark announcement, Patriot Coal, one of Appalachia’s three largest mountaintop removal companies, has signed a settlement agreement with the […]
Cross Posted from The Guardian Two people are feared dead and two more are missing after a fire on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, the US coast guard said on Friday. Four other workers were injured in the resulting fire on […]
By CYNDY COLE The Hopi Tribe filed suit Wednesday in federal court in the District of Columbia, seeking an injunction to block snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater at Arizona Snowbowl this winter because of a threatened plant. The case has been assigned […]