Climate Change

37 arrested at Australian climate protest

pirate — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:44:05 -0400

Sun Jul 13, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) - Thirty-seven people were arrested at a climate change protest in Australia on Sunday when they blocked a railway line delivering coal, police said.

Organisers said as many as 1,000 people attended the protest march from Newcastle to the nearby Carrington coal terminal, where some demonstrators broke through a fence and chained themselves to a stationary coal train. read more »

Global Warming to Heat Up

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:04:48 -0400

GLOBAL WARMING TO HEAT UP
Thomas Riggins

Well we have learned lately that we have a global warming crisis and we must do something about carbon emissions (CO2 and other greenhouse gases) or else the earth is doomed.

But we also know that capitalism exists to make profits and that given the choice of making money now and killing off the planet in a hundred years or so, profit now wins.

Environmentalists who had hoped the high coast of oil and gas would limit consumption and help reduce pollution will be disappointed. All over the world governments and companies are turning to coal for new power plants. Coal is the worse of all the carbon based pollution sources-- much worse than oil and gas. read more »

An April Fools protest

pirate — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:49:35 -0400

April 1, 2008 Boston Globe

By Andrew Ryan and Matt Collette

What links a U-shaped bicycle lock, the neck of a red-headed young woman, and the glass front door of a branch of Bank of America in Copley Square?

Coal, apparently. read more »

Carteret Islands 4min Video

pirate — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:35:32 -0500

Environmentalists climb on Heathrow jet in airport protest

pirate — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:09:19 -0500

Mon Feb 25,2008

LONDON (AFP) - Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport's planned expansion, the group said Monday. read more »

Biodiversity 'doomsday vault' comes to life in Arctic

pirate — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:29:25 -0500

by Pierre-Henry Deshayes Sun Feb 24, 2008

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AFP) - Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic "doomsday vault" filled with samples of the world's most important seeds will be inaugurated here Tuesday. read more »

Rain forests fall at 'alarming' rate

pirate — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:18:06 -0500

By EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Feb 2, 2008

ABO EBAM, Nigeria - In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe. read more »

Victory in Kentucky: No Giant Plant for Peabody in Muhlenberg County

rafael — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:45:37 -0400

Court Says No to Peabody Coal

Thoroughbred Plant Not the Best Option for Kentucky

In an important victory today, a Kentucky court ruled against Peabody’s proposed new Thoroughbred coal-fired power plant, citing the plant as a threat to both public health and Kentucky’s industrial growth. The plant, planned for Muhlenberg County, would have been one of America’s largest and most polluting power plants- emitting thousands of tons of air pollutants that cause smog and are known to cause severe public health problems including asthma and cancer.

“This is a huge victory, especially for our children and the elderly who suffer most from dirty air,” said Pat Gallagher, the Director of the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program. read more »

Victory in Pennysylvania: King Coal Must Pay for Damages

rafael — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:34:55 -0400

Thought we would pass the good news on...... From: Citizens Coal Council

* Conservationists Score Major Court Victory on Destruction from Mining;*

Federal Court Rules Pennsylvania Must Require Coal Industry to Post Bonds to Cover Entire Cost of Cleanup

Harrisburg, PA (August 3, 2007) –The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit yesterday gave a victory to Pennsylvania’s environment and economy by ruling in favor of a coalition represented by Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania must require the state’s coal operators to post bonds to cover the entire cost of environmental cleanup. The case began in December 2003, when PennFuture filed a lawsuit on behalf of Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited (formerly PA Trout), the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Tri-State Citizens Mining Network (now known as the Center for Coalfield Justice) and the Mountain Watershed Association against both the federal and state governments for their failure to protect Pennsylvania’s environment from damage caused by mining operations, including acid stream pollution. read more »

Cyclists bare all to protest car culture

pirate — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:05:57 -0400

June 11, 2007 Shanghai Daily

HUNDREDS of naked cyclists, some sporting strategically placed body paint, toured the streets of London and other cities around the world on Saturday to protest oil dependency and car culture.

Traffic came to a standstill and onlookers gaped or took photographs as the bare cyclists streamed past London's landmarks, blowing whistles and waving flags saying "Rights for Bikes."

Cyclists in Paris, Madrid and Vancouver, among other cities, joined in what was the fourth annual world naked bike ride. read more »