Nathan VanderKlippe and Dawn Walton / The Globe and Mail Gord Johnston grew up on the banks of the Red Deer River, at a place his family first settled in 1939. On Thursday evening, just before 7, he returned home to the nauseating smell of crude oil in...
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byNicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica June 7, 2012, 11:47 a.m. Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller’s formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund l...
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By Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone Magazine This is “End Mountaintop Removal Week Washington DC,” an attempt by activists to draw attention to the rape and pillage of Appalachia by Big Coal. Yesterday, 22 activists were arrested during a sit-i...
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[The video above includes a full recording of the Never Alone roadshow which traveled the US this Spring building support for June 11 organizing. Along with thorough up-to-date information on ecoprisoner support, state repression and security culture, ...
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by the Center for Biological Diversity SANTA ROSA, Calif.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a controversial proposal by a Spanish corporation to clearcut 154 acres of redwood forest to plant wine grapes in northwestern Sonoma Cou...
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Shell executives and shareholders probably heartily wish today that their send-off party of two new Arctic oil drilling rigs — the “Kulluk” and the “Noble Discovery” — hadn’t included a tiny model oil rig intended for serving drinks. As t...
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FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Two young Flagstaffians announced the beginning of a hunger strike to call attention to human rights violations sanctioned by the US Forest Service and perpetrated by Arizona Snowbowl and the City of Flagstaff on Tuesday, June 5, 2012...
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Cascadia is a vast area of wilderness that includes Oregon, Washington and stretches north through British Columbia, Canada. The Cascadia Forest Defenders and Cascadia Earth First! of Oregon are dedicated to protecting the dense forests of giant trees...
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Daughter: Hey mom, what can I do now to insure that I can get into venture capitalism when I grow up? Mom: Honey, why would you want to do something that will only alienate the human spirit and lead to the destruction of all things wild? Its evil, and ...
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from Appalachia Rising (Washington, D.C.) — This morning residents from four states severely impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining began sit-ins in protest of their Congressional Representatives’ refusal to protect their communities from the ...
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compiled by the Earth First! Journal Collective Syngenta pays $105 million to settle US litigation By JIM SUHR Last month Swiss chemicals maker Syngenta agreed to pay $105 million to settle a nearly 8-year-old lawsuit over its popular agricultural herb...
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From Deep Green Resistance News A huge spill has released 22,000 barrels of oil and water into muskeg in the far northwest of Alberta. The spill ranks among the largest in North America in recent years, a period that has seen a series of high-profile a...
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