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Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: A Long Walk For The Climate

January 20, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news. This week includes:

New Mexicio: Diné youth are so concerned about corporate exploitation of underground resources, including oil and uranium, that they have embarked on a prayer walk of 200 miles. This first walk honors “The Long Walk of the Diné People to Ft. Sumner, New Mexico.” Other walks will follow this year.

Colombia: The underground Ocensa pipeline, carrying 650,000 barrels of crude/day between the huge Cusiana-Cupiagua oilfield to the Caribbean coast, built only about 15 years ago, has eroded campesinos’ farmland and led to severe loss of income. Campesinos sued BP in the UK seven years ago. The court case is nearing conclusion.

India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will invest $100 billion in solar power and put solar plants “atop canals: efficient and cheap land use, and reduce water evaporation from the channels underneath.” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is quite impressed.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Allan Adam, Argentina, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Ban Ki-Moon, BP Oil, Canada, canals, capitalism, China, climate, Climate change, coal, Colombia, Colorado, Congress, Crow Creek Sioux, Davos, Democratic Party, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, diesel fuel, Diné, Earl Ray Tomblin, education, electric automobiles, electric cars, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, extinction, first Nations, fracking, global warming, Green Party, Greg Grey Cloud, Guatemala, hydraulic fracturing, India, indigenous, inequality, iron, John Hofmeister, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, land use, liquid nitrogen gas, LNG, Louisiana, Macondo, Mapuche, methane plume, Mexico, mining, Mitch McConnell, Montana, NAFTA, Narendra Modi, NASA, Native Americans, Nebraska, New Mexico, ocean, oceans, offshore wind, oil, oil prices, OPEC, Patagonia, petroleum, pipelines, Pope Francis, renewable energy, Republican Party, Russia, Schlumberger Ltd, science education, Senate, Sioux, solar, solar energy, Somalia, sustainable energy, Terrajoule, Texas, Turkey, UK, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States Department of Commerce, United States Department of the Interior, United States Senate, uranium, US State Department, Vatican, water, West Virginia, wind, World Economic Forum, Yellowstone River

Gardens Of Hope: Can Seed Libraries Be Saved From ALEC?

January 9, 2015 By Kate Lanier 6 Comments

Back in August, we learned of a crack-down in Pennslyvania due to certain activity at the Joseph T. Simpson Library in Mechanicsburg, activity so serious the state dispatched “a high-ranking official and lawyers to a meeting with the library.” Whatever had happened at this otherwise innocent-looking location to warrant such a response?

It seems the Simpson Library was in violation of the Pennsylvania Seed Act of 2004. A member of the Cumberland County Commission, where Mechanicsburg is located, quickly raised her voice and exclaimed, “Agri-terrorism.” Other Commissioners, however, more calmly wondered why the state had taken such interest in the local seed lending library, one among some 340 community libraries across the country at that time which had small seed-sharing programs.

Seeds brought to the library are carefully labeled, placed in small paper or plastic envelopes, then filed, typically using those wooden card catalogs of yesterday. Library patrons check out or “borrow” seeds and take them home to grow in the spring. If the seeds result in a good harvest, gardeners collect some seeds from the plants they’ve grown and replenish the library’s holdings the following fall.

Filed Under: Environment, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: agri-terrorism, agriculture, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, big agriculture, biodiversity, California, climate, Climate change, Colombia, corn, Cumberland County, Cumberland County Commission, David Svik, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Duluth, Duluth City Council, Duluth Library, Europe, food, gardening, gardens, genetic engineering, GMO Food, hay, Indonesia, industrial agriculture, International Year of the Soil, land grabs, libraries, library, library science, local food, locavore, Maryland, Mechanicsburg, Minnesota, Minnesota Agriculture Department, Navdanya, Nebraska, Nebraska Legislature, Oregonw, oseph T. Simpson Library, Pennslyvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Seed Act of 2004, Pre-Emption of Local Agricultural Laws Act, rainwater collection, Richmond, Roger Reinert, San Francisco, seed library, seed swap, seed-lending library, seeds, small farms, soybeans, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, United Nations, University of San Francisco, Vandana Shiva, water, wheat

Erik Prince: What Doesn’t He Know And When Didn’t He Know It?

January 8, 2015 By David Isenberg 2 Comments

Robert Young Pelton was one of the first authors to write about Blackwater, having spent a month running Route Irish with the same Blackwater rapid reaction security detail in Baghdad that would ultimately be involved in the Nisour Square shootout.

That was probably why Erik Prince turned to him when seeking help in editing and marketing his memoir. Pelton claims Prince didn’t pay what he is owed and is suing him. Predictably, Prince, who is no stranger to litigation, is countersuing, alleging that Pelton should not have applied money Prince contractually owed Pelton for a subscription to Somalia Report, a website Pelton created to cover all aspects of the Horn of Africa region.

But while all of this is entertaining it is, at least for those who follow the private military and security sector, not breaking news. The reason I mention it, however, was this bit in the Washington Post article:

Filed Under: Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: Abu Dhabi, Academi, Africa, Baghdad, Blackwater, British Virgin Islands, Colombia, contractors, El Colombiano, Erik Prince, Fallujah, Fortox, Greystone Limited, ID Systems, Iraq, Licensed to Kill, Men’s Journal, mercenaries, military, military contractors, Navy SEALs, New York Times, Nisour Square, Robert Young Pelton, Semana, Somalia, Somalia Report, Thor Global Enterprises, Tortola, United Arab Emirates, United States Navy, Victoria Toensing, War, Washington Post, Xe

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