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Fracked Earth News: Keep The Oil In The Ground

March 17, 2015 By Kate Lanier 1 Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier collects the top global energy and climate news, including:

* The UK Guardian, in the vanguard of the climate change campaign, has taken on some of the top myths about divestment: it’ll end civilization as we know it; it’s hypocritical; it’s just “gesture politics”; oversight of investors will be lost; you can’t end poverty without coal, gas and oil; and so forth.

* 150 households evacuated in West Virginia’s Kanawha County. Mine water was spewing from an abandoned mine “for days.” While there’s concern the old mine was being used “as a sludge storage area,” they’re diverting the water into a creek.

* Marshall Islanders are suffering from climate change as the sea rises, drought erases livelihoods, fresh water and food become “tenuous,” malnourishment and even deaths from bad water are increasing. Where will they go?

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Climate change, divestment, fracking, oil

New Dawn: 3 Ways Solar Energy Is Winning Over Fossil Fuels

March 6, 2015 By Kate Lanier 9 Comments

We’ve slogged through many years of daily news about the oil industry globally, nationally and locally. We’ve read of myriad deals among corporations and nations eager to acquire wealth by supplying us with the oozy remains of long-dead dinosaurs. We’ve cringed at every “spill” (you gotta hand it to whomever co-opted that relatively benign word so it’s used irrespective of the volume of oil released), and we’ve been horrified at the huge blowouts such as BP’s famed 3-month gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

Lately, we’ve experienced fracking, that lightly regulated practice of dumping exotic mixes of toxic chemicals (usually vaguely identified) and millions of gallons of precious water deep underground in an effort to force out oil and gas. We’ve also learned to fear the long-time object of America’s affection, the trains, as they began hauling volatile crude in tanker cars prone to rupturing when derailed, threatening horrendous conflagrations such as the one at Lac-Mégantic in Quebec.

But, cheer up, folks! In the midst of all this negativity comes what just might be the first rays of a brighter (in more ways than one) and better future for a world burning itself up by flagrant production of carbon and on the verge of extinguishing its most imperfect species, us. Three impressive publications on this subject were just released by three impressive institutions in the first three days of this month.

Brief summaries, appetite-whetters, follow:

Filed Under: Environment, Health & Lifestyle Tagged With: Climate change, divestment, fracking, renewable energy, solar

Of Noodges And Nukes: Roseanne Barr Wants To Drop A Bomb On UC Davis

February 13, 2015 By Cindy Sheehan for the Soapbox People’s Network Leave a Comment

I’d like to thank the universal goodness that former comedian turned death monger Roseanne Barr does not (I hope) have access to nuclear weapons.

I say “former” comedian because in the last few years Barr has taken a decidedly unfunny turn and outlook on life.

After Barr accused Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein of being a “Zionist” in the 2012 Green Party primaries (which Stein won and Barr lost), and after running for president on the ticket of the stridently antiwar Peace and Freedom Party, Barr has used her Twitter account to become a mega-Zionist. I stopped following her after she urged Israel to nuke Iran. As a human being, nothing to me is more monstrous.

Recently, the person who used her acting skills to convince me and the Peace and Freedom Party that she was also about peace tweeted this to her almost 300k followers on Twitter:

Filed Under: Elections, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: American imperialism, BDS, BDS Movement, boycott, capitalism, Davis, divest, divestiture, divestment, Dr. Jill Stein, election 2012, Green Party, imperialism, Iran, Israel, Jill Stein, Peace and Freedom Party, POTUS, Roseanne Barr, sanctions, social media, Twitter, UC Davis, University of California, War, Zionism

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