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FBI chases anti-GMO activists while igorning Monsantos transgressions

2013-06-24 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Some experimental GMO crops were torn out of a field in Oregon this month. That means it`s time for the federal government to freak the fuck out and do its best to clamp down again on eco-activism. The sugar beet plants, which were genetically engineered by Syngenta to survive applications of the herbicide Roundup, were uprooted in the middle of the night from a couple of fields, presumably by anti-GMO activists. The destruction of the experimental crops occurred in the same state where a strain...

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Construction of Keystone XL Pump Station in Oklahoma Shut Down by Activists

2013-06-24 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Early this morning, eight individuals blocked construction of a pump station for TransCanadas controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Seminole land-by-treaty in Oklahoma by locking on to equipment in the largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance. Nine people have been arrested. They managed to shut down the site until a volunteer firefighter reportedly injured one of the lockdowners, who is now in an ambulance. Others participating in the action unlocked out of concerns...

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Was the Biotech Wheat Found in Oregon Surreptitiously Sowed by Anti-GMO Activists?

2013-06-15 09:54:14| Biotech - Topix.net

Glibert Ross, who works with the American Council on Science and Health has published an op-ed today over at Canada's Financial Post suggesting possible activist involvement: There is no other explanation for the Oregon discovery.

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Tar sands activists in Commons protest against Canadian PM

2013-06-13 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Press Association: Three environmental activists demonstrating during a visit to parliament by the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, have been arrested, say police. Environmental campaigners against tar sands, a form of fuel that produces more emissions than conventional oil, have posted a video showing them on the roof of parliament, with a statement saying they wanted to disrupt the premier's address to MPs and peers. The Love Canada Hate Tar Sands site said: "We have entered parliament to interrupt...

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