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By Maryam Adrangi Feigned Collapses Represent Real Impacts of Tar Sands Destruction, and Water Pollution of First Nations Communities Throughout The Athabasca Delta Toronto Customers visiting RBC’s newly opened downtown banking centre today were met with the sight of motionless bodies strewn along the pavement in front of the bank entrance. The bodies were [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, August 25 2009
Treesit stopping blasts above Pettry Bottom, Coal River Valley PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va.—Two people are occupying two treetops at the edge of Massey Energy’s Edwight mountaintop removal site above Pettry Bottom and Peachtree in Raleigh County, West Virginia. At 6:30 a.m., concerned citizens unrolled two banners reading “Stop Mountain Top Removal” and “DEP – Don’t Expect [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, August 24 2009
The hypocrisy is pretty annoying. The city of Pittsburgh has banned PVC piping in the city out of fear of left wing activists using it to make “lock boxes” during the G20 protests next month. Lock boxes are tools used by forest defenders and direct action activists to enhance peaceful blockades. They have been used [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, August 24 2009
Great news from South Carolina. Another coal plant is canceled. More chinks in their armor. Less mountaintop removal coal burned! Santee Cooper board suspends coal plant plans By Molly Parker mparker@scbiznews.com Published Aug. 24, 2009 Santee Cooper’s board has voted to suspend the utility’s plans to build a $1.25 billion coal plant on the banks [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, August 24 2009
Here’s a good reason to sign the new Climate Pledge of Resistance. Within the next month, the EPA may start approving more than 80 new mountaintop removal mining permits. In my mind, 80 new permits equals 80 mountains. Early on in the Obama administration, we thought they were moving towards ending this practice which destroys [...]
Continue reading...By Margaret, August 24 2009
This weekend, the Saturday New York Times featured a lengthy article on efforts in Brazil to save the Amazon rainforest by paying farmers NOT to cut down forests. The article does justice to what is undoubtedly a complicated situation, pointing out the difficulties in putting a monetary value on standing forests, the complications of persuading [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, August 20 2009
In recent weeks a storm has been gathering over Papua New Guinea’s ‘Carbon Cowboys’. Natasha Loder, science writer for the Economist, and Chris Lang of the REDD-Monitor have been leading the charge on this, along with an AAP reporter based in Port Moresby, who broke the stranger than fiction story of the man behind the [...]
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The UK Guardian today is reporting that longtime rainforest defender (and former RAN awardee) Marina Silva has resigned from Brazil’s ruling Worker’s party in protest over the current government’s willingness to sacrifice the rainforest for political gain. In her resignation letter to the president of the Workers’ party, Silva said her decision was an attempt [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, August 17 2009
Poor Big Oil. They’ve really been taking a hit lately. Between weak climate legislation that would marginally take a bite out of their mammoth profits, billion-dollar lawsuits accusing them of dumping wastewater in some rainforest somewhere, and direct actions blaming them for cooking the climate, oil companies have really been feeling the heat. And I’m [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, August 15 2009
Today, hundreds spent the day at programs organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice-West and then made their way from Richmond’s BART station to the Chevron refinery to protest the dirty polluting practices of California’s largest corporation. At the refinery, 14 entered onto the property, enacted a “die-in” and outlined their bodies with paint and [...]
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