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UK lawmakers green light shale gas drilling
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 23rd, 2011
Associated Press: British lawmakers said Monday that shale gas resources in Britain should be developed to reduce the country's reliance on imported supplies.
A report from the cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee released on Monday rejected calls for a moratorium on the controversial energy source amid concerns about its impact on public health and the environment.
The approval makes it likely that Britain will follow in the footsteps of Poland, which last week announced plans for major investment...
VIDEO: Shale search given go-ahead
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 23rd, 2011
BBC: A controversial technique to extract gas by creating underground explosions has been given the go-ahead by MPs on the Energy Select Committee.
Engineers searching for shale gas near Blackpool argue it could revolutionise world energy markets.
Environmentalists have said it pollutes water supplies and increases greenhouse gases.
On the edge of extinction, Philippine eagles being picked off one-by-one
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 23rd, 2011
Mongabay: On the edge of extinction, Philippine eagles being picked off one-by-one
Down to a few hundred individuals, every Philippine eagle is important if the species is to survive. However, the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) has recently announced that people continue to illegally trap and keep eagles captive. Since December the organization has taken-in four confiscated Philippine eagles (Pithecophaga jefferyi), according to The Philippine Star. One died of a fungal infection after confiscation,...
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Comments Off on On the edge of extinction, Philippine eagles being picked off one-by-oneCongress probes land deal in Alaska’s Tongass forest
Posted by McClatchy: Erika Bolstad on May 23rd, 2011
McClatchy: For decades, conservationists, the U.S. Forest Service, tribes, Native corporations and the people who live in the Tongass National Forest have warred over how to manage the vast temperate rain forest that covers most of southeast Alaska.
The fight resurfaces in Washington this week, as the Native corporation Sealaska makes a case to a Senate committee that it should be able to pick new acreage outside of the original land grants it never took ownership of.
The company's choices are controversial,...
FUND-RAISER: New Earth Rising & Ecology Visionaries Need to Eat Too!
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on May 23rd, 2011
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on FUND-RAISER: New Earth Rising & Ecology Visionaries Need to Eat Too!Why has the weather gone cuckoo?
Posted by Philly: Anthony R. Wood on May 23rd, 2011
Philly: After historic flooding along the Mississippi River, record tornado sightings, and even a twister in Northeast Philadelphia last week, it is reasonable to ask if the atmosphere has gone out of its mind.
Has worldwide warming pushed it to the brink of riot? Or is its behavior more like that of a beloved relative who has been eccentric all along but we've started noticing?
To the chagrin of some scientists, variants of these questions are being disputed heatedly, polemically - and sometimes even...
Using the West’s water to extract the West’s energy: How much is too much?
Posted by New West: Jeff Thomas on May 23rd, 2011
New West: Consider this: It takes 60 liters of water to keep a single, 60-watt light bulb lit for 12 hours.
Water and energy have been inexorably linked in human history at least back to ancient Babylonia, where windmills helped power irrigation as early as 1700 BC. Since then, that relationship has become one of the great axioms of the industrial age -- that is, it takes great volumes of water to extract and convert energy resources, and often great energy resources to move and treat water.
And in a...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Using the West’s water to extract the West’s energy: How much is too much?Q&A: “The Battle for Patagonia Has Just Begun” in Chile
Posted by Inter Press Service: Pamela Sepúlveda on May 23rd, 2011
Inter Press Service: The HidroAysén hydroelectric project in Chile’s Patagonia region is causing "a credibility crisis for institutionality and (President) Piñera," environmentalist Sara Larraín told Tierramérica.
Tens of thousands of Chileans have joined in protests against a bill will affect six national parks, 11 national reserves, 26 priority conservation sites, 16 wetlands and 32 private protected areas in Patagonia and seven other regions, according to its opponents.
On May 9, the Environmental Assessment...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Q&A: “The Battle for Patagonia Has Just Begun” in ChileSealaska land deal hearing in Congress this week
Posted by Anchorage Daily News: None Given on May 23rd, 2011
Anchorage Daily News: The fight resurfaces in Washington this week, as the Sealaska Native Corp. makes a case to a Senate committee that it should be able to pick as much as 85,000 acres outside of its original land grants in the forest.
The company's picks are controversial, in part because they include valuable old growth timber that many would like to see off-limits to logging. Some local groups, including the Craig Tribal Association, also have concerns about how Sealaska plans to address important cultural locations...
Philippine bird sanctuary under threat
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 23rd, 2011
AFP: A plan to reclaim land on Manila Bay is ruffling feathers, with conservationists warning the project would destroy one of the Philippine capital's last nature reserves and bird sanctuaries.
Salt marshes, tidal areas and three mangrove-clad islands that make up the 175-hectare (432-acre) zone are a home or a resting spot for dozens of bird species, including the globally-threatened Philippine duck and Chinese egret.
In a sprawling megacity of more than 12 million people that has seen decades...