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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whats the connection between black liberation, the black-footed ferret, and biological diversity? Um, we’ll let comedian D.L. Hughley and the Center for Biological Diversity’s Endangered Species Director Noah Greenwald figure that out. This shit is funny. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/53162808 w=500&h=375]
Cross Posted from New York Times Local leaders were all smiles this summer at a groundbreaking ceremony for a vast copper smelting project that seemed like the answer to the chronic unemployment that has plagued this city in northern Sichuan ever since […]
Cross Posted from Tunisia Live By Houda Mzioudet About 50 Tunisians gathered today in front of the Tunisian Ministry of Industry and Energy to protest the proposal to drill for shale gas in Tunisia with international energy firm Shell. Members from civil society […]
Cross Posted from Jerusalem Post About 200 residents of the Hof HaCarmel region protested outside the Fifth Jerusalem Environment and Nature Conference on Sunday, angry at the idea of establishing a natural gas transmission site in their region. Eventually, a group of […]
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Cross Posted from Committee Against Political Repression Maddy Pfeiffer’s Grand Jury Appearance 11/07/12 Here are the notes from the Grand Jury hearings. Personal information has been redacted including the names of people asked about by the Prosecutor. Prosecutor Michael Dion: What is […]
“Community Corridors” resist “Canada’s Colonial Carbon Corridors” on Wet’suwet’en territory, colonially known as Northwest British Columbia by Julien Delacroix The other day I was watching videos of the Tar Sands Blockade where environmentalists were resisting the path of the Keystone XL pipeline […]