Heads up for upcoming documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, about the controversial environmental group. The film is directed by Academy Award Nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry (RACING DREAMS and STREET FIGHT) and focuses on the evolution of the […]
An interview with Will Potter, author of “Green is the New Red.” By Michael May Published on: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in Texas Observer For Will Potter, the subject matter behind Green is the New Red is personal. While working at the […]
By Earth First! Journal For a decade, local residents of Rossport and international solidarity activists have been fighting and organizing against a disastrous proposal by Shell, the Corrib gas project (Irish: Ghás Aiceanta na Coiribe), which entails the extraction of a natural […]
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by Phil Taylor of the New York Times The Interior Department today said it is beginning an environmental review for a first-ever leasing proposal to turn ocean currents off Florida’s Atlantic coast into renewable baseload electricity. As part of its review, Interior […]
from the Wall Street Journal By GUY CHAZAN A U.K. parliamentary committee said it had found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing, the much-debated process used to extract natural gas from dense shale rocks, poses any risk to water supplies and rejected calls […]
A recent report by the conservation group American Rivers declares that the 444 mile Susquehanna River, which runs through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland is the most endangered in the US. The cause: hydraulic fracturing (aka, hydrofracking, gas drilling, fracking). Fracking involves […]
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/23103527 w=400&h=225] Algonquins of Barriere Lake vs Section 74 of the Indian Act from Barriere Lake Solidarity on Vimeo. Please visit www.barrierelakesolidarity.org for more information on what’s going on and how you can help.
By Geoff Dembicki May 19, 2011 Source: the Tyee. Fierce First Nations opposition could very well topple Enbridge’s west coast pipeline proposal, a Washington-based energy expert argues. “Native land claims scare the hell out of investors,” Robert Johnson told an Alberta energy conference, according […]
In New Jersey, call in complaints about “nuissance bears” are down to a measly 90 whining reports between March 21 and April 20. Compare that to the 305 calls the state Department of Environmental Protection recieved in the same period the year […]