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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 Adrian, July 28 2009
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling of the Alberta tar sands. During rush-hour commute this morning, two Indigenous Canadian women – RAN’s own Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, and Heather Milton-Lightening – scaled [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, July 14 2009
It’s pretty rare that I read a Green Scare smear piece that turns my stomach these days. But this one just took the cake. The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute just released a report called “Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta,” written by University of Calgary professor Tom Flanagan (the “man behind [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, July 14 2009
I just read a fantastic article by Derrick Jensen in the Orion that I wanted to share with you. About once a week – on comments on the Understory, or in conversations that I have with friends – I hear someone make a remark that fits into a common theme: I’m glad you organized this [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, July 2 2009
It’s difficult for me to express how excited I was when I read several minutes ago that earlier today, a county judge ordered Chevron to halt construction on the expansion of its Richmond oil refinery. This is a huge step in a long and bitter battle fought between the world’s sixth-largest corporation, and a tough [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, June 30 2009
The Yes Men – the same folks who have posed as corporate and government hacks to announce Dow’s apology for the Bhopal chemical spill and to admit the failure of HUD’s reconstruction efforts in New Orleans – have just launched a new website as part of a national climate justice nonviolent civil disobedience pledge campaign. [...]
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It’s no secret that the Canadian Tar Sands are one of the dirtiest projects in human history – all you have to do is look at it from space. But if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lets Tar Sands oil sneak into the U.S. through the back door – at the same time as Congress [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, June 19 2009
Today, RAN took the fight against dirty Tar Sands oil to Washington. At the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC today, the Canadian-American Business Council held a high-profile forum on energy and environment. Speakers included Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s senior energy advisor, the Premier of Manitoba, and several U.S. members of Congress – as well as [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, June 17 2009
On Tuesday, RAN activists joined about 40 other people from Amazon Watch, the Earth First! Roadshow, and Rising Tide North America in a protest at the Peruvian consulate in San Francisco. (And you can help out too – by joining RAN’s latest action alert.) We were out there because, on June 5, the Peruvian military [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, November 5 2008
I know, I know – after the past couple days, Halloween seems like it happened about three months ago. But I wanted to share my excitement with you about last week’s Halloween Stickering Week of Action. When my colleague Bria and I sent out action alerts to the Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign’s grassroots activists a few [...]
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By Adrian, August 17 2009
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