Category Archives: Pollution
Coal protest movement hits Wyoming
By JEREMY PELZER Thursday, May 17, 2012 Cross-Posted from Star-Tribune CHEYENNE— It started as street theater in Cheyenne on Thursday, but by the end of summer, the group organizing the event said it will likely lead to confronting mine operators … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Coal, Corporate Globalization, Energy, Pollution
Richard Sandor: Carbon trading, holy cows and sacred groves
By Chris Lang, 10th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Richard Sandor has a new book out. He’ll tell you that markets are thesolution before he hears the problem. Pollution? Climate change? Water shortages? Species extinction? Just create a new market and … Continue reading
Sign on Letter: Save Jeju Island–No Naval Base
This call for support comes from activists in Japan. Residents on Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island in South Korea have been organizing nonviolent protest to stop the construction of a massive naval base which will destroy their community, way of life and rich marine … Continue reading
Filed under Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land Grabs, Political Repression, Pollution
TransCanada’s New Permit Still Threatens Nebraska’s Water and U.S. Energy Security
Cross-posted from BOLD Nebraska News broke today that TransCanada plans to re-apply for a Presidential Permit for the cross-border Keystone XL tar sands pipeline sometime tomorrow. However, all indications show that the new application breaks its promise to Nebraska consumers and landowners … Continue reading
Kent State survivors seek new probe of 1970 shootings
Note: Forty-two years ago today, US National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students at Kent State University who were protesting the Vietnam War and its expansion into neighboring Cambodia. Four were killed and nine wounded. Justice has never been served … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Jefferson Airplane, Political Repression, Vietnam War
Xstrata wins approval for Australia’s biggest coal mine
Cross-posted from Mining Weekly PERTH – An Australian court ruled in favour of global miner Xstrata on Tuesday in a case which sought to halt the company’s plans to build the country’s largest coal mine on the grounds that it … Continue reading
MayDay Action: Peabody Coal Shareholder Meeting Disrupted
Cross-Posted from St Louis Today Occupy protesters rally at a Peabody Energy shareholders meeting at the Peabody Opera House on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com ST. LOUIS • “Pay up, Peabody!” was the theme of protesters who … Continue reading
April Photo of the Month: Kent State Massacre Protests in 1972
Orin Langelle is co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project and Board Chair. He has been shooting photos of the movement for social change for forty years. Langelle’s first professional photo assignment (St. Louis Outlaw) was covering the 1972 Republican National … Continue reading
Shell Nigeria spill 60 times worse than said
Cross-posted from Reuters 24th April 2012, LAGOS – An oil spill in Nigeria for which Royal Dutch Shell is being sued for tens of millions of dollars in a London court was at least 60 times worse than it announced, a report … Continue reading
Filed under Pollution
Justice Department Files First Criminal Charges in BP Oil Disaster
By Farron Cousins, cross-posted from DeSmogBlog The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first criminal charges into their investigation into the cover up of BP’s oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico. The charges have been filed against Kurt Mix, a former engineer for … Continue reading
