– by Josh Schlossberg, The Biomass Monitor An 11.5 megawatt biomass power incinerator proposal for the 6,400 person central-Colorado town of Gypsum is moving along swiftly, despite concerns of community members and at least one town councilor. Utah-based Eagle Valley Clean Energy […]
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Texas Judge Rules TransCanada Can Seize Pasture for Keystone XL Pipeline
By SAUL ELBEIN / New York Times PARIS, Tex. — The Canadian energy company TransCanada can take over land owned by a Texas farmer to build its Keystone XL pipeline, a county judge ruled on Wednesday night. In a 15-word ruling sent […]
Continue readingGoing ape shit in Tampa
While the threat of anarchist mayhem at the RNC has people preoccupied just about as much as the hurricane rolling towards Florida’s Gulf Coast, there’s another righteous menace that’s been baffling the authorities of the Tampa Bay area: a feral monkey. […]
Continue readingWhen Republicans, Hurricanes and Anarchists Collide…
The coming Tempest in Tampa by Russ McSpadden The Dance By now its old hat. Every four years the Republicans gather to formally nominate their candidate for president of the United States and every four years large scale street demonstrations vacillate between […]
Continue readingDecade Long Fight Against Dam Victorious!
From Root Force La Parota Dam has been definitively canceled. The government of Guerrero has formally abandoned all plans for the dam and will inform the Mexican federal government that it will not approve its construction. After nearly 10 years of struggle, […]
Continue readingOne Extinction Leads to Another
from Science Daily When a carnivore becomes extinct, other predatory species could soon follow, according to new research. Scientists have previously put forward this theory, but a University of Exeter team has now carried out the first experiment to prove it. Published […]
Continue readingELF prisoner Jesse Waters to be released soon
Send him a letter today! Last fall, Jesse Waters—a man from the Detroit area—was sentenced in Grand Rapids for his role in an Earth Liberation Front (ELF) activities in the early 2000s (the same activities that got Marie Mason over 20 years […]
Continue reading838,000 Acres Protected for Jaguar Could Mean an End to the Rosemont Mine Proposal in Arizona
by Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star The U.S. proposed Friday to designate about 1,309 square miles across Southern Arizona and a sliver of New Mexico as prime habitat that is essential for conservation of the endangered jaguar. Among those areas is […]
Continue readingExtinction Explosion
Teetering on the dire precipice between existence and annihilation, time is running out for the Royal Bengal tiger, the Great White shark, and Victorian koalas. There are reports that species in Brazil’s coastal rainforest are disappearing faster than scientists can keep track […]
Continue readingBREAKING NEWS: Protect the Peaks Tree-sit Update & Video
— Protect People – Clean Water, Clean Snow! – [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XMtLiX1pk&w=560&h=315] UPDATES on TREE-SIT as of Tuesday, August 21st 3:15 PM – ALERT: 5 Fire Dept. people at tree-sit. One Fire Dept. tactical climber on site. Ground support asked them not to […]
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