Tag: Energy
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Report Details How Extreme Energy Extraction Threatens the Great Lakes
As governments approve tar sands oil and fracking projects around the Great Lakes, the Council of Canadians is warning that these extreme energy projects are putting the Great Lakes in peril. Council of Canadians Chairperson Maude Barlow outlines the web of pipelines, refineries and oil shipments that threaten the Lakes in her new report released…
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Hidden Camera Reveals Dumping of Toxic Coal Ash Into Ohio River
Time-lapse photography from a camera strapped to a tree has captured a year’s worth of images proving that dangerous coal ash wastewater from a plant owned by the utility company Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is pouring unabated into the Ohio River. This photographic evidence, along with Google Earth satellite images from 1993 to present,…
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4 Years After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, EPA Lifts BP’s Gulf Drilling Ban
Nearly four years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster in the Gulf of Mexico—an event that blew away the record books for the nation’s worst accidental oil spill—BP is fully back in business, and drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico. [caption id="attachment_326438" align="alignnone" width="585"] NASA satellite imgae on May 20, 2010.…
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Largest Anti-Fracking Rally in California History Draws Thousands
By Andy Rowell They came in their thousands from across the Golden State. On Saturday, the largest anti-fracking rally and protest in California’s history took place in the state capital of Sacramento. The message to California Gov. Jerry Brown was simple: act now to ban fracking. [blackoutgallery id=”326371″] The rally, which was organized by Californians…
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Fracking Industry Tries to Buy Democracy in Rural Illinois
Johnson County, IL has oil and gas interests panicked about a local effort to stop fracking. They’re spending tens of thousands of dollars in the rural county to defeat a referendum that opposes fracking and defends local rights. The referendum reads: “Shall the people’s right to local self-government be asserted by Johnson County to ban…