from NBC News Police in Belgium are investigating the murder of a British oil executive who was shot and killed in front of his wife in Brussels in mid-October. Nicholas Mockford, a 59-year-old executive for ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, was […]
Cross Posted from Huffington Post Federal disaster declarations are up, the pamphlet declared. Average winter storm losses have doubled since the 1980s. Thunderstorms last year caused over $25 billion in damages, more than double the previous record. “That flier was astonishing,” said […]
Cross Posted from Tar Sands Blockade Here are two updates from blockaders in East Texas resisting the tar sands pipeline. We will keep you posted as events proceed. Below is a diary excerpt from Cat Ripley, whojoined the tree blockade several days ago. Here […]
Cross Posted from TVNZ Campaigners are protesting outside the environment court in Christchurch as a legal bid to stop coal mining on the West Coast’s Denniston Plateau has got underway. The coalmining debate has gotten louder today with the start of a four-week Environment […]
Cross Posted from Free Malaysia Today A local NGO has slammed Assistant Minister of Culture and Heritage Liwan Lagang for lying to Senior Minister-cum-Land Development Minister James Masing on the situation with the Penans who were protesting the Murum Dam construction. Liwan […]
Cross Posted from ABC Only 10 people turned out for the first protest since peace talks fell over last week. The Huon Valley Environment Centre targetted timber veneer processor Ta Ann in Hobart this morning claiming it misleads its Japanese customers about […]
Cross Posted from Seattle Times By GILLIAN WONG After three days of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented and agreed that a petrochemical factory would not be expanded, only to see the protests persist. The standoff […]
Cross Posted from E&E News By Ellen M. Gilmer Cusi Ballew is willing to die to stop drilling. He’s climbing a dozen feet above the soggy ground this September afternoon for practice. When the time comes, he’ll climb even higher and dare authorities […]
Cross Posted from Metro News It was billed as one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history. As thousands of peaceful protesters took to the Legislature lawn in Victoria Monday to voice their opposition to Enbridge’s proposed Northern […]
Homes in Clifton, Big Bass Lake, Thornhurst and surrounding areas will turn their lights off this evening to show their opposition to proposed power lines being built on their properties. Part of a weekend of protesting PPL’s plans to build 57 miles […]