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Environmental Activists Take to Local Protests for Global Results
2016-03-20 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: They came here to get arrested. Nearly 60 protesters blocked the driveway of a storage plant for natural gas on March 7. Its owners want to expand the facility, which the opponents say would endanger nearby Seneca Lake. But their concerns were global, as well. Theres a climate emergency happening, one of the protesters, Coby Schultz, said. Its a life-or-death struggle. The demonstration here was part of a wave of actions across the nation that combines traditional not-in-my-backyard protests...
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Uganda should not license oil drilling near Congo's Virunga: activists
2016-03-06 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Uganda should not license an oil exploration block close to neighbouring Congo's Virunga National Park because drilling would harm the park's ecosystem, 60 local and international environmental groups said on Thursday. The east African country of Uganda discovered crude reserves in its Albertine rift basin near its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2006. In its latest licensing round, the first to be conducted competitively, six blocks covering about 3,000 square kilometres...
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Are Activists Good or Bad for Investors? Author Jeff Gramm on His New Book, Dear Chairman
2016-03-01 23:02:35| IT Services - Topix.net
In the interest of General Motors, you are going to have to stop treating me as a problem and accept me as The author of that 1985 letter, Ross Perot, would soon lose two of those qualifications and add some more experience to the third as he would be forced out by management in what the New York Times called " the business world equivalent of a pit-bull match ." In that same letter, Perot told General Motors Chairman/CEO Roger Smith that he appeared bored in a meeting, did not let other people talk, and that he had an intimidating style that "stifles candid, upward communication."
Anti-fossil fuels activists to shut down UK's biggest coalmine
2016-03-01 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Enterno: Activist group Reclaim The Power has pledged to shut down the UK's largest opencast coal mine in south Wales this May in protest against fossil fuels. Hundreds of people are planning to take part in a mass blockade of the UKs largest opencast coal mine Ffos-y-fran, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. It will coincide with the Welsh Assembly elections on May 5. Reclaim The Power spokeswoman Ellie Groves said in a statement: "The only way we can stop catastrophic climate change is taking action...
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Climate activists threaten to shut down world's major coal sites
2016-03-01 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate activists will use direct action to try to shut down major coal sites across the world in May, including the UKs largest opencast coal mine in south Wales. The dozen international sites facing civil disobedience from the Break Free 2016 campaign span the globe from the US to Australia and South Africa to Indonesia. The Ffos-y-fran opencast mine, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, is about halfway through extracting 11m tonnes of coal. Ellie Groves, from the Reclaim the Power network, said:...
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