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Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Where There’s Oil, You’re Bound To Find A Bush

December 3, 2014 By Kate Lanier 1 Comment

Selections from the world’s energy news including:

Peru: “A lush expanse of Amazon rainforest known as the [Madre de Dios or] “Mother of God” is steadily being destroyed in Peru, as mercury-filled tailing ponds from gold extraction grow. Sounds nightmarish with “tens of thousands of desperate fortune-hunters” operating “improvised mines” 24/7. 125,000 acres of rainforest destroyed by the illegal gold miners already, 30 – 40 tons of mercury dumped into rivers. 

Congo: “Loi Obama” or Obama’s Law requires US companies to ensure they don’t use “‘conflict minerals’—particularly gold, coltan, tin and tungsten … controlled by Congo’s murderous militias.” Disruption ensued as the government began a snail-paced effort to ensure the audits. Result: 11 of 900 mines in South Kivu certified so far. People unable to earn a living, increasingly miserable, thrown into the militias as a result of the well-intentioned Loi Obama.

USA: Did Walmart really pledge “to shift to 100 percent renewable energy … [and] to reduce its climate emissions as quickly as possible” almost 10 years ago? The Institute for Local Self-Reliance says so, but reports that, instead, “Walmart remains as deeply committed as ever to the dirtiest fuels, especially coal.” Only 3% of its US electricity consumption is from renewable energy sources.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Amazon rainforest, American Exploration and Mining Association, Ancient Rome, Anglo American mining, Arizona, Australia, Austria, British Columbia, Brunei, BSG Resources, California, Canada, Canadian Pacific, Chile, China, Climate change, coal, coltan, Congo, Copper, Copper mining, Denton, Denton Taxpayers for a Strong Economy, Don Blankenship, El Salvador, Enderlin, energy, Energy Resources of Australia, first Nations, fracking, freedom of speech, Friends of Public Broadcasting, gas, geoengineering, George P. Bush, gold, Grand Canyon, Guinea, history, hydraulic fracking, indigenous, Indonesia, iron, Israel, Ivanhoe Mines, Kakadu National Park, Kentucky, Lansana Conte, Loi Obama, Los Bronces, Lukoil, Malaysia, Massey Mines, mercury, mining, Minnesota, Mirarr, National Mining Association, National Public Radio, North Dakota, nuclear, nuclear energy, Ohio, oil, oil trains, OPEC, Pacific Rim mining, palladium, Peru, Philippines, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, platinum, pollution, PolyMet, Pritchard Mining Company, rhodium, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Africa, South China Sea, Taiwan, tarsands, Texas, Texas Land General Office, The Associated Press, The Charleston Gazette, The Wall Street Journal, tin, tungsten, University of Minnesota, uranium mining, US Dept of Transportation, Vancouver, Vietnam, Walmart, West Virginia, wind power

Bush Family And Its Inner Circle Play Central Role In Lawsuits Against Denton Fracking Ban

November 12, 2014 By Steve Horn 2 Comments

On November 4, Denton, Texas, became the first city in the state to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) when 59 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the initiative. It did so in the heart of the Barnett Shale basin, where George Mitchell — the “father of fracking” — drilled the first sample wells for his company Mitchell Energy.

As promised by the oil and gas industry and by Texas Railroad Commission commissioner David Porter, the vote was met with immediate legal backlash. Both the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) filed lawsuits in Texas courts within roughly 12 hours of the vote taking place, the latest actions in the aggressive months-long campaign by the industry and the Texas state government to fend off the ban.

The Land Office and TXOGA lawsuits, besides making similar legal arguments about state law preempting local law under the Texas Constitution, share something else in common: ties to former President George W. Bush and the Bush family at large.

Filed Under: Elections, Environment, National News Tagged With: Alberto R. Gonzales, American Lawyer, Antonin Scalia, Arbella Exploration, Baker Botts, Baker Botts Amicus Fund, Barnett Shale, Britton Hill Holdings, Clean Water Act, David Porter, Denton, Earthworks, election 2014, Energy Policy Act of 2005, Evan Young, Food and Water Watch, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, George H.W. Bush, George Mitchell, George P. Bush, George W. Bush, GreenWire, Houston, Hunt Oil, hydraulic fracturing, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, Iraq, Iraqi Constitution, Jeb Bush, Jerry Patterson, Kurdish Regional Government, Michael B. Mukasey, Midland, Mitch Jones, Mitchell Energy, National Environmental Policy Act, Ray Hunt, Rick Perry, Robert L. Looney, Ronald Reagan, Safe Drinking Water Act, SCOTUS, Sharon Wilson, St. Augustine Capital Partners, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of The United States, Texas, Texas Constitution, Texas General Land Office, Texas Oil and Gas Association, Texas Oil and Gas PAC, Texas Railroad Commission, Thomas Phillips, TXOGA, United Kalyvryta

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