Cross Posted from ABC News Tasmania’s Premier has accused wealthy businessmen of bankrolling fringe environmental groups whose protests are threatening the forest industry. Five activists have been charged with trespass-related offences after a protest at Ta Ann’s timber processing site in […]
Continue readingMalaysia Protests Big Industry
Cross Posted from The Register By Simon Sharwood Despite promising “Zero harm and sustainable development” and winning a court case permitting it to build a rare earth processing plant, Australian rare earth miner and processor Lynas Corp has failed to win favor from […]
Continue readingEarth First! Journal Editor’s Foray into Electoral Politics Proves Violence Inherent in the System
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Continue readingPlans for an artificial beach in Hong Kong attracts locals’ fury
Cross Posted from France 24 Mock-up of the artificial beach slated to open in 2014 in Lung Mei. Photo courtesy of HK Wild Life. Three hundred animal and plant species could vanish from Hong Kong’s Lung Mei shoreline due to an artificial beach project. […]
Continue readingShalefield Action Camp Stands Up for Small Farms
Cross Posted from Pittsburgh Gazette More than 50 residents from Bessemer, Pa. and members of the Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective have joined together today to protest gas drilling that is underway 4,000 ft. from a local woman’s farm. Maggie Henry, who raises […]
Continue readingAnarchists Blockade Shell Station in British Columbia to Protest Tar Sands
Crossposted from BCBlackout On a sunny Saturday afternoon in East Vancouver, some thirty protesters gathered at a city park and then proceeded to blockade a Shell station located at Clark Drive and 12th Avenue. Organized by BC Blackout, an anarchist project opposing […]
Continue readingTar Sands Blockade Calls For Solidarity Actions November 19th
Alright, eco-warriors, consider yourselves on notice. Tar Sands Blockade is stepping our game up, and we’re calling on you to do the same. We’ll be throwing down in a big way next Monday, November 19th, somewhere near Nacogdoches, Texas, the heart of […]
Continue readingGroundswell shuts down Ta Ann veneer mill
Cross Posted from Protect Native Forests Grassroots environmental group Groundswell have today shut down operations at Ta Ann’s veneer mill in Smithton, with a peaceful protest. The group are highlighting the ongoing loss of Tasmania’s forests by Ta Ann, 2 protesters are […]
Continue readingFracking and Radioactivity
by KARL GROSSMAN / Counterpunch.org Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking and groundwater—it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousands of years. Issuing a report […]
Continue readingStatement from Australian Gas Protesters
Cross Posted from Green Left Residents of north-west NSW have united in numbers outside the NSW Community Cabinet being held in Tamworth to expose the Barry O’Farrell government’s broken promises on protecting farmland, water catchments and sensitive environments from coal and gas […]
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