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What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate Movement
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 24th, 2014
EcoWatch: These are my prepared remarks for a speech I gave at the Boston stop of the People’s Climate March tour, “Building a Movement of Movements: Towards the People’s Climate March in NYC.”
Hi, everyone. My name is Sandra Steingraber, and I inhabit the anti-fracking wing of the climate movement.
Only a few years ago, that sentence would have sounded strange, even to me, because the fight against fracking has its roots in another place.
Those who oppose natural gas extraction via fracking first...
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Comments Off on What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate MovementCuadrilla in legal bid to remove anti-fracking protesters
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 24th, 2014
BBC: An energy firm and 10 farmers have made a legal bid to remove an anti-fracking camp from a Lancashire site. About 20 protesters are believed to be on the Little Plumpton site near Blackpool, with the Reclaim the Power group recently using it as a base. Cuadrilla, which has applied to hydraulically fracture for shale gas at Preston New Road, served a "claim for possession against trespassers". It said the camp has had a "detrimental impact" on the landowner's business. A spokeswoman for the protest...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Cuadrilla in legal bid to remove anti-fracking protestersPolar ice sheets melting – in pictures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 24th, 2014
Guardian: Ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting three times faster today than they were in the 1990s, according to a 'definitive' study of satellite data. These pictures show the different ways that melting occurs
Up to 33 Bakken oil trains cross Arkansas weekly
Posted by Associated Press: Kelly P. Kissel on August 24th, 2014
Associated Press: Arkansas emergency officials' records show that as many as 33 trains carrying Bakken crude oil pass through the state in a given week, each one hauling more than the amount spilled in last year's Pegasus pipeline spill in Mayflower, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The oil trains do not use a Union Pacific rail line through Hoxie, where two freight trains collided head-on Aug. 17, killing two crew members. In June, the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads...
No One Wants You to Know How Bad Fukushima Might Still Be
Posted by Vice: Johnny Magdaleno on August 24th, 2014
Vice: In July, when the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced it would move forward with its plan to construct an "ice wall" around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's failed reactors, it seemed like a step backwards. In June, the utility company in charge of decommissioning the plant--which was ravaged by a tsunami in March 2011--indicated that its initial attempt at installing a similar structure had flopped. Its pipes were apparently unable to freeze the ground, despite being filled...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on No One Wants You to Know How Bad Fukushima Might Still BeTallying the environmental cost of meat
Posted by Japan Times: Stephen Hesse on August 24th, 2014
Japan Times: What are the costs of the meat we eat — the hamburgers, pork chops and chicken breasts? Not the price we pay for ground beef and so on, but the full costs of meats: the environmental and societal impacts, from birth to burger, and beyond. Some impacts of raising, slaughtering and eating beef come to mind quickly, while others are far less obvious. This summer, while in the United States, I quickly gained a couple of kilograms. This happens every time I visit and spend a lot of time eating and drinking...
Climate Change and Dust Increase Respiratory Disease
Posted by Liberty Voice: None Given on August 24th, 2014
Liberty Voice: The connection between dust, allergies, and asthma is clear, but the link between the increasing problem of respiratory disease and climate change is not. The confusing lack of clarity around this issue is exacerbated by mixed messages from the very sources that should be helping to clarify it-- the U.S. government.
The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created a Climate and Health Program (CHP), which, according to the CDC Web site, was designed to help “prevent and adapt...
Lebanon sceptical of ‘save water’ effort
Posted by Al Jazeera: Sophie Cousins on August 24th, 2014
Al Jazeera: Plastered across billboards, flashing across television screens, and splashed on pamphlets and stickers, a new message is suddenly everywhere you look in Lebanon: "If you love me, save me some water."
This year, in an attempt to mitigate a growing water crisis, the Ministry of Energy and Water has encouraged people to turn off their taps and conserve precious drops. But according to Lebanon's National Water Sector Strategy (NWSS), which was adopted by the government in 2012, only approximately...
Desert residents fear fracking dangers might outweigh the benefits
Posted by Vox: None Given on August 24th, 2014
Vox: Arnold Escobar leaves his apartment under the hot sun of Odessa, Texas, a desert region abundant in oil nicknamed the Texas Petroplex, drives past oil derricks and pumpjacks, to a remote well site where heavy machinery whirs loudly.
He slowly walks along the plant to get to the two-ton blender he operates and starts his work day, a long shift that can last 48 hours--not worried about any dangers.
“I feel like my job is an important one,” said Escobar, 24.
Escobar is a Senior Equipment Operator...
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