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Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dolen, joined them [...]
Continue reading...By Maria, November 21 2009
November 20th, 2009 Published in the Huffington Post By Trudie Styler Actress, director, producer, and humanitarian The following post was originally delivered at the UN General Assembly’s meeting on climate change on Thursday, November 19th. It has been 20 years since Sting and I first visited Brazil, and met some of the people [...]
Continue reading...By Nell, November 20 2009
From RAN’s Dana Clarke We’ve just learned that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sent a very legalistic letter to Marfork Coal Company, the Massey Energy subsidiary that is blasting on Coal River Mountain. The letter follows up on an EPA site visit to Coal River Mountain earlier this month, and notes with concern that [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 20 2009
Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown of the World Trade Organization are re-converging around climate change in Copenhagen. In both, Klein talks about how anti-establishment direct action movement are preparing to “throw down” around [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, November 19 2009
Bill McKibben, Gloria Reuben, and RAN’s own Mike Brune have all sent letters to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon asking him to stop JPMC’s financing of the coal industry and mountaintop removal coal mining. We got word today that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just sent his letter to Jamie Dimon. Read it below: Robert F. [...]
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Mr. Watson, how will you respond? Yesterday Rainforest Action Network’s executive director Mike Brune sent a letter to Chevron’s incoming CEO John Watson and made him an offer. Come with us to Ecuador. To our knowledge no senior Chevron official has toured Texaco’s former oil installations in Ecuador’s rainforest. [Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, and [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 17 2009
Seriously, if you aren’t going to be Copenhagen, ask yourself why won’t you be in West Virginia defending Coal River Mountain on Dec 7? As climate justice movements turn towards the floundering talks in Denmark, people in Appalachia are in the fight of their lives to save Coal River Mountain and end mountaintop removal. On [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, November 15 2009
Here in Riau, Indonesia, signs of the struggle to save the last of Sumatra’s forest is everywhere. Daily, the papers cover stories of timber and oil palm companies destroying forests, engaging in corruption, driving land conflicts, sponsoring violence, and marginalizing indigenous peoples. Today, on the way to a meeting with the local NGO Elang, I [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, November 14 2009
On the first day of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Pak Jamaluddin was quiet. He said the air conditioning of Kuala Lumpor gave him the flu. He seemed lost among the groups of palm producers, with their Blackberries and dark suits. Exhausted from the canoe rides, bad roads, the concrete maze of Jakarta, [...]
Continue reading...By Nell, November 13 2009
Could it be that a tiny fly is the secret to saving Appalachia’s mountains and drinking water from the destructive mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) practice? According to Kevin Book, an analyst at ClearView Energy Partners LLC, in a Bloomberg piece this morning: “The future of mountaintop mining looks bleak.” For the first time, the [...]
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