Below is an article published in a mainstream newspaper called the Globe and Mail about the apparent demise of the much maligned Gateway pipeline, proposed to carry Tar Sands oil from Alberta Canada all the way to the Pacific coast, slashing through […]
Continue readingHudson Valley Earth First! Continue to Resist fracked gas infrastructure alongside residents in New York
On October 1st, Millennium Pipeline Llc began construction on a controversial compressor station in Minisink, NY. The facility, which will emit 61,000 tons of toxic material annually, is meant to increase capacity for storage and delivery of fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania […]
Continue readingUnusual Dallas Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, Expert Says
By Eli MacKinnon, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer | LiveScience.com Three unusual earthquakes that shook a suburb west of Dallas over the weekend appear to be connected to the past disposal of wastewater from local hydraulic fracturing operations, a geophysicist who has […]
Continue readingRally to Shut Down Injection Wells at Ohio Courthouse
Appalachia Resist! announces an Action Camp, November 2-4 in Athens county [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SrSPY5aWU?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Today, over 80 people gathered outside the Athens County Courthouse to show support for the legal case of Madeline ffitch, and to demand that the Hazel Ginsberg Injection Well […]
Continue readingFlorida’s Largest, Rarest Bat Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
Florida bonneted bat…so adorable, right? Once Common in South Florida; Fewer Than 300 Believed Left in Wild ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Florida bonneted bat, the largest, rarest bat in […]
Continue readingFilthy War Machine: US Military Industrial Complex, World’s Worst Polluter
The United States Military, the Pentagon. Most fossil fuel burned, most greenhouse gases released, biggest source of Mercury released into the environment, biggest source of radiological (Uranium, Plutonium) releases and the biggest amount of HAZMAT materials released into rivers, lakes, oceans and […]
Continue readingArizona Ski-Resort Will Pump Sewage Snow on Sacred Mountain
by LESLIE MACMILLAN / New York Times FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He has chained himself to excavators; […]
Continue readingLove and Rebellion in the East Texas Woods
I’m writing to ya’ll from a safe space nearby the Tar Sands Blockade in rural east Texas. Early this week, heeding the call of friends and comrades already on site, we assembled a crew of Earth First!ers from the Northeast US and […]
Continue readingRevealed: Army scientists secretly sprayed St Louis with ‘radioactive’ particles for YEARS to test chemical warfare technology
By Emily Anne Epstein The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed. While it was known that the government sprayed ‘harmless’ zinc cadmium silfide […]
Continue readingEarth First! goes Viral? Isn’t there an ointment for that?
Dearest Earth First! Newswire reader, In September, the Earth First! Newswire–which is only 2 years old–reached over a half a million views! And we’re pretty damned happy to get all these wild and inspiring news items–from the blockades against the Keystone XL […]
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