SANDRA CHEREB, Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. — Could tiny snails found in isolated, high desert springs along the Nevada-Utah line scuttle plans to pump billions of gallons of water to Las Vegas? That’s the thrust of a lawsuit filed by an […]
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For Farms in the West, Oil Wells Are Thirsty Rivals
By JACK HEALY / New York Times GREELEY, Colo. — A new race for water is rippling through the drought-scorched heartland, pitting farmers against oil and gas interests, driven by new drilling techniques that use powerful streams of water, sand and chemicals […]
Continue readingWe Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
By Brian Merchant / Motherboard What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and […]
Continue readingVideo of RNC Coal Plant Blockade in Tampa
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Continue readingBanks Profiting from Global Food Crisis
by Tom Bawden / The Independent Barclays has made as much as half a billion pounds in two years from speculating on food staples such as wheat and soya, prompting allegations that banks are profiting handsomely from the global food crisis. Barclays […]
Continue readingEarth First! Blockades TECO Coal Plant at RNC in Tampa
by Everglades Earth First! UPDATES: Seven people in total were detained for blocking the roads which stopped all traffic into the coal plant for near four hours. Six were locked down in the road and one was dragged off the top of […]
Continue readingHurricane Isaac May Stir Up Oil From BP Spill
by Lynne Peeples As Hurricane Isaac batters the Gulf Coast, some experts are warning that the storm could threaten more than levees, power lines and gas prices. Isaac’s high winds and rains, they speculate, could also stir up remnant crude oil from […]
Continue readingRush Limbaugh: Obama Manipulated the Hurricane Forcast to Sabotage the RNC
from Climate Progress On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the government manipulated hurricane forecasts in order to force Republicans to cancel a day of their national convention, saying the model “allows them to do it.” “The hurricane center is the […]
Continue readingBiomass Incinerator Looms on Horizon for Gypsum, Colorado
– by Josh Schlossberg, The Biomass Monitor An 11.5 megawatt biomass power incinerator proposal for the 6,400 person central-Colorado town of Gypsum is moving along swiftly, despite concerns of community members and at least one town councilor. Utah-based Eagle Valley Clean Energy […]
Continue readingTexas Judge Rules TransCanada Can Seize Pasture for Keystone XL Pipeline
By SAUL ELBEIN / New York Times PARIS, Tex. — The Canadian energy company TransCanada can take over land owned by a Texas farmer to build its Keystone XL pipeline, a county judge ruled on Wednesday night. In a 15-word ruling sent […]
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