by Paul Foy SALT LAKE CITY – A top Utah regulator approved plans Monday for the first commercial U.S. oil sands project. John Baza, director of Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas & Mining, upheld an earlier decision by his staff to give […]
Scott DeMuth Pleads to Misdemeanor Conspiracy Charge Under Animal Enterprise Protection Act Plea Entails 6 Months in Prison and Probation but No Fine or Testimony Against Other Activists Davenport, IA: Earlier today, Scott DeMuth, 23, accepted a plea agreement to a federal […]
Fur Commission USA has reported that 400 mink were released from cages at an unnamed fur farm in Granite Falls, Washington on September 9.
Political Prisoner Correspondence and the FBI by ecoprisoners.org Recently we began receiving documents in response to a FOIA request we filed with the FBI about Eric McDavid. The documents have uncovered a few alarming pieces of information, but one in particular we […]
Leaked Document Reveals Secret Conference on “Animal Rights Extremists” From Voice of the Voiceless Private security firm holds secretive conference on “animal rights extremists”, a leaked document reveals Voice of the Voiceless has been provided with a document, marked “CONFIDENTIAL”, detailing an […]
From The Understory Today RAN and our friends in DC dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt onto the front lawn at the EPA’s headquarters. Our message? “EPA: don’t let King Coal dump on Appalachia.” This is part of our effort to compel […]
Biggest Trees in the World in Danger TimberWest has been logging closer and closer to the largest Douglas fir in the world in British Columbia, in spite of environmentalists warn that the 1,000-year-old tree is vulnerable to blowdown. The San Juan spruce, […]
Enbridge Pipeline is Still Leaking In spite of Enbridge’s claims that their pipeline stopped leaking on Friday, reports have surfaced that the pipeline has been continually leaking an estimated 200 to 600 barrels of crude per hour since Friday. Chevron off the […]
Just six weeks after Enbridge was forced to shut its Lakehead system, spilling around 20,000 barrels of oil (800,000 gallons) into the waters of southern Michigan in July, Enbridge closed its 670,000 barrel per day Line 6A, which feeds midwest refineries and […]
Gas Pipeline Explodes causing fatal injury from San Francisco Chronicle A gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, sending a 50 foot fireball high in the sky, killing at least one and injuring several dozen. This shows the problems with gas pipelines and […]