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 […]
Continue readingOne More Day Left to Become a Part of Publishing the EF! J 30th Anniversary Issue
Click here to be a part of publishing the EF! Journal’s 30th Anniversary Issue! There’s an awesome new video up, check it out and help us reach our fundraising goal of $5,000. A little bit goes a long way. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNhf_Ff0xY&fs=1&hl=en_US]
Continue readingDaniel McGowan Moved to General Population
Daniel McGowan was granted his request to transfer out of the Communication Management Unit yesterday. He’s in general population at Marion. McGowan was put in prison on charges related to the Green Scare, and was put in the CMU to repress his […]
Continue readingCrimethInc. Special Report: Eco-Defense and Repression in Russia
[This article was also published in the Earth First! Journal, 30th Anniversary edition, Volume II] Prelude: A Spiking We Will Go We learned of Moscow city authorities’ plans to destroy the Khimki forest in summer of 2008, when local environmentalists started an […]
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