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Last night Maria Gunnoe received a Goldman Prize for her work to end mountain top removal coal mining (MTR) – and protect her home. This is an issue that we are all a part of and Maria believes that, as energy consumers, we have a responsibility to know where our electricity is coming from. “When [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, April 21 2009
Regular Understory readers will remember that Grassy Narrows first Nation succeeded in suspending logging within its traditional territory last year (newbies can read all about it). Since then, Grassy’s been negotiating with the Province of Ontario to develop a land use plan that earns consent of the community. Today, the local newspaper reports that the [...]
Continue reading...By Ky, April 21 2009
I want to thank all the activists who joined our Stickering Action the week before Easter. Over 600 activists headed out to their local grocery stores to put “Palm Oil Destruction” stickers on Hershey’s products that contain palm oil. This week, I’ve asked everyone who was part of the action to send me photos and [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, April 21 2009
I really don’t like Big Coal. I don’t like it when they blow the tops of mountains. I don’t like it when their power plants pollute local air and water. I don’t like when coal ash waste poisons whole communities. I especially don’t like how Big Coal is responsible for 42% of global carbon emissions [...]
Continue reading...By Eriel, April 20 2009
Last April 1606 migratory ducks landed on a tar sands tailings pond, or what I would like to call a man made toxic tar pit, and met their end. The cause of death for these birds was drowning. Apparently the birds landed in one of Syncrudes oil-slick toxic waters and were sucked down and drown. [...]
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, April 20 2009
Community members engage in civil disobedience to prevent the construction of coal fired facility. This morning, the Cliffside Climate Action brought hundreds to Duke Energy’s headquarters in Charlotte North Carolina to protest the construction of the new Cliffside coal facility. The latest news is that 44 community members and supporters have been arrested, sending a [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, April 20 2009
A few hours ago hundreds of protesters converged on the headquarters of Duke Energy in Charlotte NC to demand a stop to the construction of the Cliffside Coal-fired power plant. This is just the latest in the growing wave of civil disobedience that is building around the country demanding that we get America off coal [...]
Continue reading...By Toben, April 17 2009
The E.P.A. is putting “Protection” back into their name. From The New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, April 16 2009
My friends Madeline, Charles and Jordan were part of a team that got arrested in Naoma WV today while hanging a banner on a Massey mine. SUNDIAL, W.Va. – Three activists, who are committed to nonviolently ending mountaintop removal, unveiled a banner that said “EPA stop MTR” at Massey Energy’s Edwight mountaintop removal mine. Five [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, April 15 2009
Democracy will be in the streets of Charlotte on April 20. Be there or be square! April 15, 2009 Jim Rogers, President and CEO Duke Energy Charlotte, North Carolina Subject: Civil disobedience and stopping Cliffside are the rational responses to coal-climate crisis Dear Mr. Rogers, Next Monday, we and many others will march to Duke [...]
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