My Water’s On Fire Tonight

See the two videos below. The second one is an actual demonstration of faucet water catching fire due to hydrofracking. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4&feature=player_embedded#at=132] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZ4LQSonXA]

First Nations group protests tarsands pipeline proposal

cross posted from CBCNews About 40 people marched through downtown Calgary Wednesday to protest a proposed pipeline project that would carry oilsands crude to the west coast. Calgary-based Enbridge wants to build two pipelines from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C., stretching 1,170 kilometres. […]

Obama Vows to Increase Oil Production in US: Drill Baby Drill

by the Earth First! Journal Collective Heads up Gulf coasters and Alaskans, Obama wants more of what is killing you and the ecosystems that would sustain you. In his weekly radio address this week, President Obama announced he will set into motions […]

Another Worker dies at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant

By Mandie Sami, wires A worker at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has died. It brings the total number of deaths at the complex to three since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck in March. The man, aged in his 60s, […]

June 18th – A Call To Action Against Canada’s Tar Sands

Canada’s dirty Tar Sands are destroying forests, poisoning our atmosphere and threatening community health.  Meanwhile US corporations ship their products using transportation fueled by this destruction.  On June 18th, people around the world will participate in the largest day of action ever […]

FPL Power Plant Proposal Aims for the Heart of Panther Habitat

By Panagioti Tsolkas, Earth First! Journal According to a letter sent on May 2, 2011 by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, a new power plant proposal has begun the permitting process for a site located in Hendry County—primary habitat of Florida […]