TAR-RA FOR NOW
Tar sands activists in Canada are celebrating a victory this week as the controversial ( and snappily titled) Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline Approval Process was delayed until at least the end of 2013.
The pipeline plans that are currently under review would transport 525,000 barrels of crude oil a day – going from Alberta's tar sands oil fields, through waterways that play host to the threatened salmon population, temperate rainforests and coastal ecosystems to a port ready for waiting tankers to cross the Pacific ocean to Asia. First Nation activist groups have pledged to stop any pipeline construction on their land through mass civil disobedience. Through the use of the Ecological Internet (an Enterprise Wiki of internet based environmental portals and international Earth Advocacy networks) over the last few months has raised nearly a quarter of a million protest emails to the Northern Gateway joint review panel.
One man at least wasn't waiting for the public protest against genetically modified wheat in Rothamsted. According to mainstream news sources Hector Christie scaled the fence on Sunday morning and caused 'significant random damage'.
The seventh annual Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering is taking place in Erris, Co.Mayo, Ireland from the 1st to the 4th of June.
Mutant wasteland
Greenpeace action against fuel rip-off merchants Centrica
SchNEWS examines the the Con-Dems' foreboding plans for an all out attack on Britain's few remaining green and pleasant lands. Will the protest scene dust off its tin whistles and timewarp us back to the nineties?
Climate Justice target UK Energy Summit
A new strategy inspired by South American peasant movements has emerged in San Francisco. 'Occupy The Farm' intends to break the corporations' control over the food industry and replace it by community-managed food production.
Indigenous and environmental groups are fighting Brazil's Belo Monte dam. Built in the heart of the Amazon, the project threatens to destroy rich ecosystems and displace indigenous cultures
