PUBLIC COMMENTS NEEDED BY APRIL 29, 2013
Tell the USDA NO WAY on Genetically Engineered Trees!
The USDA is accepting public comments on a request by GE tree company ArborGen to commercially sell hundreds of millions of freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees annually for vast plantations across Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Continue reading
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Four arrested at lively protest against fossil fuel infrastructure
Asheville, NC - 60 people took to the streets today to protest the Keystone XL pipeline in downtown Asheville. After a rally in Pritchard Park, the march made its way to TD Bank, a major investor in the Keystone XL pipeline and occupied the lobby, forcing the bank to close for the rest of the day.
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Reposted from Grist.org
By John Upton
An unidentified “liquid natural-gas product” is flowing freely into the shallow ground near a creekside gas processing plant in rural western Colorado. After 11 days of cleanup operations and investigations, the source and precise contents of the toxic spill remain a mystery.
Officials at Williams Energy, the presumed culprit in the spill, have not been able to locate the source of the leak, so they have been unable to staunch the flow of underground pollution that is threatening to contaminate Parachute Creek.
More than 60,000 gallons of hydrocarbon gunk have so far been sucked up using vacuum-equipped trucks. The underground pollution plume is believed to have grown to at least 200 feet by 170 feet and is at least 14 feet deep. Continue reading
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Tagged contamination, creek, fracking chemical spill, parachute colorado, water pollution
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by Anne Petermann / Global Justice Ecology Project
The bio-forest of the future?
In response to industry plans to develop eucalyptus plantations across the US South[1], environmental groups[2] are raising serious concerns about the impacts of eucalyptus plantations on forests, rural communities, wildlife and the climate – especially if those trees are genetically engineered. Continue reading
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Tagged arborgen, eucalyptus plantations, genetically modified trees, research, southern forests, usda
By Joe Romm / Think Progress
Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reconfirmed earlier findings of high rates of methane leakage from natural gas fields. If these findings are replicated elsewhere, they would utterly vitiate the climate benefit of natural gas, even when used to switch off coal.
Indeed, if the previous findings — of 4% methane leakage over a Colorado gas field — were a bombshell, then the new measurements reported by the journal…
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March 29th @6:00pm
@ Internationalist Books and Community Center 405 W. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC
The Dirty Energy Road Show is an educational presentation examining the parallels of coal and nuclear issues and connecting them to other form of dirty energy and climate change. It also looks at work being done to transition us away from these dirty industries and towards a more sustainable and healthier future. Continue reading
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Tagged appalachia, coal, dirty energy, mountain top removal, nuclear energy, pollution
Thank you to everyone who helped with this successful benefit!
Presenting the award-winning, old-time, Southern Appalachian string band The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers!
Welcome in the Spring with a square dance benefit & silent auction with proceeds going to preserve the Piedmont and stop fracking from coming to North Carolina.
lesson at 7:30 p.m. dance at 8:00 on Saturday April 27th with a silent auction.
Location: The Paperhand Puppet Intervention Studio
6079 Swepsonville Saxapahaw Rd. in Saxapahaw, NC
Entrance: $10-20 donation $5 for kids under 16
Click Here for Detailed Directions from various cities: Continue reading
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Frack wastewater is known to have many unknown, secret chemicals as well as many radioactive chemicals that are not able to be treated or filtered. Now, officials with industry affiliations are planning to inject it into the ground in North Carolina and even possibly spread over our crop fields. In other parts of the country, such as PA, it’s legal for companies to spread it over the roads. More about Frack Wastewater.
Reposted from News & Observer
Faced with millions of gallons of potential fracking waste, North Carolina’s fracking commission could encourage drilling operators to reuse the industrial wastewater for crop irrigation.
The proposal Thursday from a member of the N.C. Mining & Energy Commission immediately raised skepticism from several environmental advocates. They said purifying brackish backwash into sprinkler water is technologically possible but in practice has caused environmental damage in other states. Continue reading
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Tagged brine, contamination, crops, fields, fracking, halliburton, North Carolina, radioactive materials, vikram rao
By John Upton
A grotesque collision of fossil-fuel-laden vessels happened in a bayou south of New Orleans on Tuesday evening, where tug-boat operators crashed a barge carrying crude oil into a submerged natural-gas pipeline.The result was predictable: A spectacular conflagration erupted that injured two of the four members of the tug-boat crew, including the captain, who reportedly suffered burns covering more than three quarters of his body.
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Green Is The New Red Submedia TV Earth First! Newswire It’s Getting Hot In Here EcoWatch Climate Connections
