Cross Posted from Huffington Post Federal disaster declarations are up, the pamphlet declared. Average winter storm losses have doubled since the 1980s. Thunderstorms last year caused over $25 billion in damages, more than double the previous record. “That flier was astonishing,” said […]
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Dispatches from the Tar Sands Blockades
Cross Posted from Tar Sands Blockade Here are two updates from blockaders in East Texas resisting the tar sands pipeline. We will keep you posted as events proceed. Below is a diary excerpt from Cat Ripley, whojoined the tree blockade several days ago. Here […]
Continue readingAnti-Coal Protests Continue in New Zealand
Cross Posted from TVNZ Campaigners are protesting outside the environment court in Christchurch as a legal bid to stop coal mining on the West Coast’s Denniston Plateau has got underway. The coalmining debate has gotten louder today with the start of a four-week Environment […]
Continue readingPenan Blockade Remains Strong Against Murum Dam
Cross Posted from Free Malaysia Today A local NGO has slammed Assistant Minister of Culture and Heritage Liwan Lagang for lying to Senior Minister-cum-Land Development Minister James Masing on the situation with the Penans who were protesting the Murum Dam construction. Liwan […]
Continue readingTasmania: Ongoing Forestry Protests Marked by Fatigue
Cross Posted from ABC Only 10 people turned out for the first protest since peace talks fell over last week. The Huon Valley Environment Centre targetted timber veneer processor Ta Ann in Hobart this morning claiming it misleads its Japanese customers about […]
Continue readingChinese Protests Over Chemical Factory Reflect Government Mistrust
Cross Posted from Seattle Times By GILLIAN WONG After three days of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented and agreed that a petrochemical factory would not be expanded, only to see the protests persist. The standoff […]
Continue readingRadicals push past old-school activism to oppose shale drilling
Cross Posted from E&E News By Ellen M. Gilmer Cusi Ballew is willing to die to stop drilling. He’s climbing a dozen feet above the soggy ground this September afternoon for practice. When the time comes, he’ll climb even higher and dare authorities […]
Continue readingNew wave of pipeline activism flirts with the law
Cross Posted from Metro News It was billed as one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history. As thousands of peaceful protesters took to the Legislature lawn in Victoria Monday to voice their opposition to Enbridge’s proposed Northern […]
Continue readingPA turns lights out to protest proposed power lines
Homes in Clifton, Big Bass Lake, Thornhurst and surrounding areas will turn their lights off this evening to show their opposition to proposed power lines being built on their properties. Part of a weekend of protesting PPL’s plans to build 57 miles […]
Continue readingWild Idaho Rising Tide Monitors MegaLoad, Raises Objections
Cross Posted from WildIdahoRisingTide.org On Wednesday, October 17, the Idaho Transportation Department issued a permit to Omega Morgan Inc. to haul a water treatment vessel of unknown ownership up U.S. Highway 12 between 10 pm and 5:30 am on Monday night, October […]
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