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Climate change activists disrupt Utah oil and gas auction
2016-02-18 01:34:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In this Tuesday Feb. 16, 2016 photo, environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams with her bidding number walks on the hallway of the Bureau of Land Management's Salt Lake City office. Oil and gas industry officials have said environmental writer Tempest Williams' bid on at least 800 acres is insignificant.
Climate activists and pipeline protesters turn to civil disobedience in the Northeast
2016-02-17 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Nine climate activists are facing charges in New York state for an act of civil disobedience. One day in November, they blocked the entrance to a parking lot in Montrose, N.Y., where work is being done on a major natural gas pipeline expansion, the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project. Now they plan to defend themselves in court on the grounds that their actions were necessary to protect humanity from climate disruption. Consider it a form of self-defense. The Montrose 9, as theyre calling...
Activists attempt to save Fort Worth Stock Show Steer from packing plant
2016-02-11 00:08:55| Beef
The Internet trolls are out in full force, this time criticizing a teenagers character for selling her market steer for beef at the Fort Worth Stock Show. Content Classification: Curated BEEF Daily read more
Pacific trade deal bad news for climate, say activists
2016-02-04 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate campaigners are warning a free trade deal between a dozen Pacific countries on Wednesday risks handing polluters more power. In Auckland, representatives from twelve nations including the US, Australia and Japan inked the Trans-Pacific Partnership after five years of negotiations. President Barack Obama hailed the tariff-busting deal as including the strongest labor standards and environmental commitments in history. Activists fumed. Campaigners 350.org called it a fossil fuel industry...
As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning
2016-01-29 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: As aides escorted him past swaying chandeliers to a panic room, the mind of Japan`s prime minister flashed to his country`s seaside nuclear power stations. Tremors in Tokyo meant tsunamis, Naoto Kan, a physics graduate, feared. It was 11 March 2011. The next day 250km north-east of the capital, three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant went into meltdown as cooling systems failed. Large explosions shot radioactive materials into the atmosphere following a barrage by 20-metre waves. Over...
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