Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who has argued for the dissolution of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said this weekend that she is open to oil and gas drilling in the Everglades. Bachmann commented that all options, and ecosystems, should be made […]
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Weekend Round-Up of Disaster and Disorder
Oil leak in North Sea confirmed by Shell Oil giant Shell was accused of being secretive on Friday over an oil leak from one of its platforms in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. Shell publicly reported the spill on […]
Continue readingFracking debate heating up in New Zealand
Heated debate over fracking, the mining process which could be used to extract gas in western Southland, is raging in the gas heartland of Taranaki. A protest group, Climate Justice Taranaki, has called for a ban or moratorium on the practice, which […]
Continue readingKeystone XL Pipeline Protest set for site of 2007 Burnaby pipeline rupture
A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years ago to emphasize its opposition to a planned expansion by Kinder Morgan. Wilderness Committee (WC) will hold a demonstration on Saturday, Aug. 27 […]
Continue readingExxon causes oil spill in Yellowstone
Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and […]
Continue readingCanadian Tar Sands Pipeline Still Opposed by EPA
Landowners, agriculture group keeping up the fight against eminent domain and the Keystone XL pipeline. Is the State Department listening? By Kate Schwab, 6-23-11 As the third phase of work on the international Keystone XL pipeline looms, the foreign corporation behind the […]
Continue readingVideo Round-up of Rising Tide’s Week of Action Against Extraction
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Continue readingHydrofracking in Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, Challenged
Reported by: KARK 4 News A federal lawsuit has been filed in Little Rock to prevent gas drilling under Greers Ferry Lake in north central Arkansas and in the Ozark National Forest in northwest Arkansas. Those bringing the suit against […]
Continue readingObama Vows to Increase Oil Production in US: Drill Baby Drill
by the Earth First! Journal Collective Heads up Gulf coasters and Alaskans, Obama wants more of what is killing you and the ecosystems that would sustain you. In his weekly radio address this week, President Obama announced he will set into motions […]
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