After a controversial election in 2009, Rene Varela of Ocean Embassy dolphin traffickers, who was featured in the Canadian documentary Dolphin Dealer, became mayor in the city of Lake Worth, Florida (the new home to the Earth First! Journal). According to an […]
Continue readingWikileaks: US identifies Indigenous Groups in Canada as “Terrorist Threats”
cross posted from the First Perspective The U.S. has been keeping regular intelligence on potential security threats in Canada, including the activities of unnamed First Nations groups, according to two cables sent by the U.S. embassy in Ottawa and obtained by APTN […]
Continue readingPanel Approves Hydrofracking Leases on State Owned Universities
cross posted from the Towanda Daily Review A bill to open the way for natural gas drilling on the grounds of 14-state-owned universities and other unexplored state-owned land cleared a first hurdle Tuesday in a Senate committee. The vote by the Environmental […]
Continue readingBP To Settle Federal Lawsuit Over 2006 Spills for $25M
cross posted from KTUU.com The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that BP’s Alaska unit will pay $25 million in civil penalties to settle a federal lawsuit over 2006 crude oil spills from its North Slope pipelines. Under the settlement, which also involves […]
Continue readingTerrorism is Dead, Long Live Eco-Terrorism
With Usama Bin Laden dead the authorities can again refocus their energy on quelling the domestic “eco-terrorist” movement in the United States leaving us at the Earth First! Journal just that much more paranoid that our Facebook page is being monitored! And […]
Continue readingEnvironmental consortium sues DEC over hydrofracking in state forests
The Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the State Department of Environmental Conservation seeking to declare hydrofracking in state forests contrary to the state Constitution and related environmental laws. Among those lands is the vast Stewart State […]
Continue readingRollins 5 charges dropped! Resistance to industrial wind continues in Maine
Bangor, Maine—Today, all trespassing charges were dropped against Maine Earth First! activists Jessica Dowling, John Waters, Leonard Murphy, Donald Smith and James Freeman. The five were arrested in November after they blocked construction vehicles at the Rollins industrial wind energy project. Charges […]
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