The Idaho governor has told state officials to no longer protect endangered gray wolves or investigate their deaths. For the past couple of months I’ve been following the story of the gray wolf’s endangered status in the US northwest. The gray wolf […]
Continue readingIndigenous Activist Killed by Indonesdian Police
The West Papuan highlands have been plunged into a state of tension and fear, as Indonesian police shot dead a member of the indigenous community security group, Defenders of the Land of Papua. Indigenous Papuan activists are operating in a state of […]
Continue readingAnimal Rights Activists Jailed in UK, Week of Action Rages On
Amidst a stirring week of solidarity protests against animal cruelty, British courts jailed five animal rights activists today for “violence and terror” against Huntingdon Life Sciences. The five activists work with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an organization dedicated to ending the […]
Continue reading44 Activists Illegally Plant Trees Against Mountaintop Removal
44 volunteer ‘reclamation workers’ (activists) illegally marched onto a supposedly reclaimed mine site to plant trees. Why? Because the ‘reclamation’ efforts done by the mining company resulted in a barren hillside with sparse grass and baking sun – a far cry from […]
Continue readingBiomass Plant Raises Concerns in Oregon, plus Major Protest in Russia
About 275 people gathered at a local church this month to share information and to organize testimony for a Monday night hearing before Clackamas County planning commissioners. Nearby residents and farmers fear the facility could forever alter their neighborhood with increased traffic, […]
Continue reading200 Protest Shell in LA, Environmental Protests Turn Violent in Italy, plus more
More than 200 people — led by environmental activist Erin Brockovich — marched to Shell’s oil refinery in Carson to protest the company’s refusal to take responsibility for the contamination of a tract in the Carousel neighborhood, where high levels of benzene […]
Continue readingCanada Tar Sands Hits Bump in the Road
Arguably the single worst industrial project in the world, the Canada Tar Sands is so big that if Canada stopped all other industrial projects, it still wouldn’t reach Kyoto Protocol Requirements. But the Tar Sands might be given a rest, as plucky […]
Continue readingPolitical Ecology Purge in New York State, more drilling in the West
Pete Grannis, “the (New York) commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation since 2007, was fired Thursday by Gov. David Paterson for what a state source ascribed to “poor performance and insubordination.”” click here for more. In reality, he was fired […]
Continue readingSupport Rod Coronado
There is a new support site up for Rod Coronado at http://supportrodcoronado.info/. Rod is facing four months in federal prison for probation violation after friending Mike Roselle on facebook. He is facing a renewed 3 year probation upon release. If you can, […]
Continue readingVedanta Resources Denied Again, more
Today India denied Vedanta Resources permission for a six-fold expansion of its aluminium refinery in Orissa state over environmental concerns, dealing a fresh blow to the British company. Just two months ago, Vedanta was rejected in trying to mine bauxite on sacred […]
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