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Fighting Back Against Animal Rights Activists
2013-03-20 14:46:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Parness & Associates Increasingly, animal rights activists are targeting farming operations with undercover video stings designed to generate maximum media attention, warns LeClairRyan shareholder David L. Cook, writing in recent editions of Dairy Business magazine. He says, however, farmers can take steps to exclude infiltrators in the first place and if there is a breach, take legal and other steps to fight back. read more
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Honduras: Activists Protest Lack of Transparency in Extractive Industry
2013-03-19 18:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Honduran government's announcement of its plans to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has raised expectations as well as doubts, particularly due to the speed with which it aims to complete a process that has taken several years in other countries of the region. The EITI is a coalition of governments, companies, civil society groups, investors and international organisations that promotes better governance in countries rich in natural resources, through the publication...
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EDF drops lawsuit against environmental activists after backlash
2013-03-13 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The energy company EDF has dropped a 5m civil lawsuit against a group of 21 activists who occupied one of its gas-fired power plants for a week in October 2012, in a move described by supporters of the demonstrators as a "humiliating climbdown". EDF faced a strong public backlash against its civil suit, which was described by opponents as an attempt to undermine peaceful protest in the UK, after details of the action were published in the Guardian. The parents of one of the activists launched...
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CAMBODIA: European activists detained at garment protest
2013-03-11 13:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
European activists have been detained by Cambodian police after taking part in a protest outside the E Garment clothing factory near Phnom Penh.
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Keystone XL pipeline report slammed by activists and scientists
2013-03-02 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Green activists and climate change scientists have slammed a new report from the Obama administration that raises no serious objections to building a massive and controversial oil pipeline. The Sierra Club, one of the US's oldest and most respected environmental advocacy groups, attacked the State Department study into the proposed Keystone XL piepline which will bring oil from Canadian tar sands deposits down to the Gulf of Mexico as a "deeply flawed" analysis of the environmental consequences...
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