Cross Posted from Protect Native Forests Grassroots environmental group Groundswell have today shut down operations at Ta Ann’s veneer mill in Smithton, with a peaceful protest. The group are highlighting the ongoing loss of Tasmania’s forests by Ta Ann, 2 protesters are […]
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Fracking and Radioactivity
by KARL GROSSMAN / Counterpunch.org Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking and groundwater—it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousands of years. Issuing a report […]
Continue readingStatement from Australian Gas Protesters
Cross Posted from Green Left Residents of north-west NSW have united in numbers outside the NSW Community Cabinet being held in Tamworth to expose the Barry O’Farrell government’s broken promises on protecting farmland, water catchments and sensitive environments from coal and gas […]
Continue readingWe Gonna Save this Mother F$*king Species
Whats the connection between black liberation, the black-footed ferret, and biological diversity? Um, we’ll let comedian D.L. Hughley and the Center for Biological Diversity’s Endangered Species Director Noah Greenwald figure that out. This shit is funny. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/53162808 w=500&h=375]
Continue readingFacing Protests, China’s Business Investment Slows
Cross Posted from New York Times Local leaders were all smiles this summer at a groundbreaking ceremony for a vast copper smelting project that seemed like the answer to the chronic unemployment that has plagued this city in northern Sichuan ever since […]
Continue readingTunisians Protest against Shale Gas Extraction
Cross Posted from Tunisia Live By Houda Mzioudet About 50 Tunisians gathered today in front of the Tunisian Ministry of Industry and Energy to protest the proposal to drill for shale gas in Tunisia with international energy firm Shell. Members from civil society […]
Continue readingIsraeli Anti-Gas Protesters Disrupt Conference
Cross Posted from Jerusalem Post About 200 residents of the Hof HaCarmel region protested outside the Fifth Jerusalem Environment and Nature Conference on Sunday, angry at the idea of establishing a natural gas transmission site in their region. Eventually, a group of […]
Continue readingTranscript from Maddy’s Grand Jury Appearance
Cross Posted from Committee Against Political Repression Maddy Pfeiffer’s Grand Jury Appearance 11/07/12 Here are the notes from the Grand Jury hearings. Personal information has been redacted including the names of people asked about by the Prosecutor. Prosecutor Michael Dion: What is […]
Continue reading“Community Corridors” Resist the Pacific Trails Pipeline
“Community Corridors” resist “Canada’s Colonial Carbon Corridors” on Wet’suwet’en territory, colonially known as Northwest British Columbia by Julien Delacroix The other day I was watching videos of the Tar Sands Blockade where environmentalists were resisting the path of the Keystone XL pipeline […]
Continue readingControversial Logging Proposal on Federal Land in Oregon Meets Resistance
Cross Posted from Truthout By Alissa Bohling, Truthout | Report Aaron Nelson draws his bow and aims it at a branch high up in a Douglas fir tree. But Nelson isn’t hunting on this late September afternoon. At least, not to kill. He’s looking for […]
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