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Climate change No Dash for Gas – the new, chimney-climbing face of climate direct action
Posted by Guardian: Susanna Rustin on February 5th, 2013
Guardian: Last November, members of the newly formed direct action group No Dash For Gas were feeling pretty good. They had just completed a week-long occupation of West Burton power station in Nottinghamshire, forced French owners EDF to switch the power off and prevented the emission of 19,117 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
In a cafe in London where she met me after work a couple of days after climbing down the 91m concrete chimney where activists had camped for a week, Ewa Jasiewicz said the group felt "really...
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Posted by U.S. News and World Report: Jason Koebler on February 5th, 2013
U.S. News and World Report: Want to reduce the effects of global warming? Stop working so hard. Working fewer hours might help slow global warming, according to a new study released Monday by the Center for Economic Policy and Research.
A worldwide switch to a "more European" work schedule, which includes working fewer hours and more vacation time, could prevent as much as half of the expected global temperature rise by 2100, according to the analysis, which used a 2012 study that found shorter work hours could be associated...
B.C.’s Coastal First Nations Walk Away from Northern Gateway Review Process
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 5th, 2013
Canadian Press: Coastal First Nations have left the federal review of the Northern Gateway pipeline plan, saying they've run out of money and patience.
Executive director Art Sterritt has told the panel the group representing nine aboriginal bands from the B.C. coast and Haida Gwaii has spent more than three times the amount of funding allotted by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency four years ago.
Sterritt said the approximately $280,000 they had cannot compare to the $250 million Enbridge (TSX:ENB)...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 5th, 2013
Reuters: Alberta could offer up new environmental initiatives for oil sands development to show the Obama administration that approving a $5.3 billion pipeline to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries will not increase pollution, the Canadian province's new envoy in Washington said on Monday.
Alberta, anxious to tap new markets in the United States for its growing volumes of oil, has already boosted monitoring of the impacts of tar sands projects on northern waterways. It also has established a land-use plan for...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Alberta may offer more to smooth way for Keystone: envoyPaper firm says to stop cutting Indonesia’s natural forests
Posted by Reuters: Michael Taylor on February 5th, 2013
Reuters: One of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies said it would stop using timber from Indonesia's natural forests and only use trees from plantations in a drive that an environmental group said may be a milestone if the company keeps its promise.
Tropical Indonesia is seen as an important country in the fight against climate change and is under international pressure to stop rampant deforestation and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands.
Jakarta-based Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), long...
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