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Green group’s unconventional fight against fracking
Posted by Reuters: Inequity Whereby 200 People Have Half Earth's Wealth and 1 Bn Live Less $1.50/da on June 29th, 2015
Reuters: The residents of Grant Township, Pennsylvania, were worried about Little Mahoning Creek, a picturesque trout stream best fished in the spring when the water runs fast. The Pennsylvania General Energy Company had acquired a federal permit to drill an injection well down 7,000 feet about seven miles from the creek to dispose of wastewater from its natural gas hydraulic fracturing operations. Fearing the operation would harm the Little Mahoning watershed, the town’s supervisors last year passed a...
Oil companies played hardball in bid to defeat climate outsiders
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 29th, 2015
Reuters: Petty legal filings. Diversionary ballot measures. Counting abstentions as no votes. These are just some of the tactics U.S. oil companies used this spring to quash efforts by investors to win the right to nominate climate experts for board seats. Led by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and proposed at 75 U.S. companies in various industries this year, the so-called proxy access measure would give investor groups who own 3 percent of a company for more than three years the right to nominate...
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Comments Off on Oil companies played hardball in bid to defeat climate outsidersAloha Aina Music Festival rocks Waikiki in support of protecting Mauna Kea
Posted by KHON: None Given on June 29th, 2015
KHON: Some of the biggest names in Hawaiian music showed their support for protecting Mauna Kea at a concert at the Waikiki Shell Saturday evening.
The "Aloha Aina Music Festival" featured performances by Shawn Pimental, Mana`o Company, Henry Kapono, Amy Hanaiali`i, Hapa, Fiji, Paula Fuga, among others.
It was organized by supporters of the effort to protect Mauna Kea. They say proceeds will help save Mauna Kea and other sacred lands.
Among those in the audience, some who were there on Mauna Kea...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Aloha Aina Music Festival rocks Waikiki in support of protecting Mauna KeaHawaii Governor Says Protests Atop Volcano Are Acts Of Vandalism
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 29th, 2015
Associated Press: Hawaii Gov. David Ige says recent attempts to block the road to the summit of Mauna Kea were unlawful and unacceptable.
Hundreds of protesters had flocked to Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island to prevent construction of a giant telescope from resuming. A dozen people were arrested and charged with obstructing.
Ige said in a statement Friday that the state will do whatever is necessary to ensure that the road remains accessible. He says when the roadway was blocked with rocks and boulders that...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Hawaii Governor Says Protests Atop Volcano Are Acts Of VandalismBrazil, China, India, South Africa in push for climate financing
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 28th, 2015
Agence France-Presse: Brazil, China, India and South Africa voiced disappointment Sunday over the failure of rich countries to come up with billions of dollars needed to help them sign on to a landmark climate change deal.
Ministers and top negotiators from the four key countries met in New York to close ranks as talks on the climate deal head into crucial months before a Paris conference in December.
In a joint statement, they expressed "disappointment over the continued lack of any clear roadmap for developed...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Brazil, China, India, South Africa in push for climate financingPope Francis’s environmental message brings thousands on to streets in Rome
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 28th, 2015
Guardian: Thousands of campaigners and religious leaders have marched through Rome, backing Pope Francis’s uncompromising environmental message ahead of a Vatican conference on climate change, and urging world leaders to take action.
Holy See officials will this week discuss the environment with activists and scientists at a meeting at which Naomi Klein, a prominent social activist, will take centre stage alongside Cardinal Peter Turkson, one of the pontiff’s most senior aides.
Soon after the release...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Pope Francis’s environmental message brings thousands on to streets in RomeScientists Baffled Over Unprecedented Warming Ocean Off Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 28th, 2015
EcoWatch: Oceanographers are puzzled by an accelerated burst of warming sea that threatens the fisheries of the American Atlantic coast. Meanwhile, off the U.S. West coast, scientists report that they have been baffled by a mysterious “blob” of water up to 4°C warmer than the surrounding Pacific, linked to weird weather across the entire country. Jacob Forsyth and research colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts report in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Scientists Baffled Over Unprecedented Warming Ocean Off Atlantic and Pacific CoastsIge vows keep road Mauna Kea accessible to all
Posted by Advertiser: None Given on June 27th, 2015
Advertiser: Gov. David Ige pledged to keep the road to the summit of Mauna Kea opened and said Friday that he is “working to find ways to enable” the Thirty Meter Telescope project to proceed atop Mauna Kea “without putting workers, protestors and the general public at risk.” Ige’s statement came hours after a protester Friday morning said he was struck by the side-view mirror of a TMT security truck -- an incident that Hawaii County police are investigating. Ige said that efforts to block the road to the...
Gov. Ige: Mauna Kea road must remain open
Posted by Hawaiian Independent: None Given on June 27th, 2015
Hawaiian Independent: Governor David Ige released the following statement about recent incidents on Mauna Kea:
We are a patient people in Hawai‘i. We listen to and understand differing points of view, and we respect the many cultures of this land, especially that of the host culture. I have done my very best to follow this process in the case of Mauna Kea and set forth a way forward that I believe is reasonable.
We expected there to be a protest when construction resumed, and there was. We hoped we would not have...
Ige: Will Do Whatever Necessary Ensure Lawful Access
Posted by Nathan Eagle: Nathan Eagle on June 27th, 2015
Nathan Eagle: The gravel road leading up to the summit of Mauna Kea has been cleared of the boulders and rock structures that protesters of the Thirty Meter Telescope project had placed in the path of construction crews Wednesday. But the road remains temporarily closed until further notice. The governor`s office said in a statement Thursday that the Mauna Kea Comprehensive Management Plan authorizes the University of Hawaii to close the road in the event of hazardous conditions and emergencies. The road to the...