Tag: News
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Super Typhoon Haiyan: Realities of a Warmed World and Need for Immediate Climate Action
It is with a heavy heart and a respectful hand that I write this. Super Typhoon Haiyan has only just passed, and the devastation cannot yet even be fully understood. With that in mind, please consider a donation to the Philippine Red Cross. But that will only aid those impacted by this storm. Not the…
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Help Free the Arctic 30 and Stand Up Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Everywhere
By Daryl Hannah and Phil Radford All around the globe, record numbers of people from all walks of life are being thrown into jails because they are standing up to protect the most basic of human needs—uncontaminated water, unpolluted lands and a liveable climate free from the ramifications of extreme fossil fuel extraction. If the greed-driven fossil fuel…
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Fracking Boom Creates Mortgage Headaches for Banks
The natural gas extraction method of fracking has many critics—mostly among environmentalists. But banks in the Eastern U.S. have recently sprung up as opponents too. Banks that lent mortgages to homeowners that then sell their property rights to energy companies find themselves in a tricky situation. In the video below, the editors of American Banker discuss how some banks are…
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Does Homeland Security Think Fracktivists are Terrorists?
According to comments made by Mark Grawe, chief operating officer at EagleRidge Energy, Denton, TX residents who object to his company’s reckless operations way too close to their homes, schools and parks are terrorists worthy of inclusion on the Department of Homeland Security’s watch list. Wednesday night Grawe attended a home owners association meeting in Mansfield, TX where EagleRidge has…
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Analysis Finds Offshore Fracking Industry Pumping Toxic Wastewater Into Coastal Waters
Citing the use of hazardous hydraulic fracturing chemicals and the release of oil industry wastewater off California’s coast, the Center for Biological Diversity yesterday called on the Coastal Commission to halt fracking for oil and gas in state waters and press for tighter regulation of fracking in federal waters. [caption id="attachment_312278" align="alignnone" width="500"] Approximately half…