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« Reply #450 on: December 17, 2016, 04:42:13 pm »
How We Are Making Latin America Frack-Free

 
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By Nicole Figueiredo de Oliveira

Earlier this month in Argentina, the people gave another big step in the fight against fracking in the country: legislators, church and civil society representatives, environmental experts, climate scientists, trade unions and human rights activists, along with indigenous and community leaders from various countries met in Buenos Aires to discuss the threats posed by the use of fossil fuels in Argentina and Latin America.

In a full room at the National Congress, the speakers were unanimous: There are no benefits that the fossil fuels industry can bring now or in the future. In the South of Argentina fracking has been polluting the water and the air, damaging the economy, harming people's health and destroying the environment. It's wrecking a whole region and the only way to stop it starts by taking local action together.

Victories against fracking are already coming from many places. In Brazil, for example, more than 200 cities have already prohibited fracking in their territories and the state of Paraná has just placed a ban on this technique for the next 10 years.

The conference in Argentina was the second event organized by the No Fracking Coalition Latin America, emphasizing the need and the will for alliance and collective actions throughout the continent. Participants expressed a shared regional concern for the preservation of the Guarani aquifer, exchanged experiences and vowed to unite forces across Latin America to prevent the expansion of hydraulic fracturing and foster a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy for all.

There is still a lot more to do to make Argentina and Latin America fracking free, but the event showed that communities are organized, strong and keeping the pressure on this deadly industry.

Fighting fracking is just one side of a major battle against the fossil fuel industry. During the last UN Climate Summit in Marrakech, more than 375 nongovernmental organizations delivered a letter to global leaders with an urgent yet simple new demand for climate action: no new fossil fuel development.

With climate impacts hitting hard communities all over the world, and the recent announcement that 2016 is probably going to be the warmest year ever recorded and the potential carbon emissions from reserves in currently operating oil and gas fields alone, even with no coal, are enough to take the world beyond 1.5 C.

Stopping mining, digging and investing in fossil fuels are fundamental steps to keep the planet from warming. Countries need to meet the promises they made to the whole world with the Paris climate agreement—and that includes Argentina and Latin American countries.

Following the conference, the coalition headed to Neuquén and Vaca Muerta, in the North of Patagonia, where the fracking industry is leaving it's mark of great destruction. Fracking wells can be found right in the middle of natural reserves and fruit plantations.

In the words of the president of the fruit growers association in Allen, the apple and pear orchards of that region have become "expendable," as the produce are no longer apt for export due to the contamination from the fracking wells that have been installed by their fields.

If we want to keep the planet from warming 1.5 C there is no more room for fossil fuels in the energy mix. And we need to freeze any sort of fossil fuel investments if we want to prevent the devastating impacts of climate change.


http://www.ecowatch.com/latin-america-frack-free-2151222673.html

https://350.org/es/el-papa-francisco-inspira-a-obispos-padres-y-fieles-en-la-lucha-contra-el-fracking-en-brasil/
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« Reply #451 on: December 22, 2016, 11:51:25 pm »
The deepwater horizon aftermath

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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2016

http://www.oilgasdaily.com/reports/The_deepwater_horizon_aftermath_999.html
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« Reply #452 on: December 24, 2016, 10:49:05 pm »
LOOK UP New, Full Documentary Chemtrails, Geo Engineering, Weather MOD Must Watch!


Agelbert NOTE: This effort to reduce insolation DOES lower the efficiency of solar panels. So, not only is this effort we-the-people are paying for (without our permission) on behalf of the fossil fuel industry ANOTHER 'subsidy' for the polluters which undermines the price competitiveness of Solar Panel Renewable Energy, but people, animals and the crops are being contaminated, weakened and sickened too!

And on top of all that, it ISN'T WORKING to stop the increase in global warming causing catastrophic climate change. Yeah, the SURFACE is slightly cooled. BUT, the ATMOSPHERE AS A WHOLE is STILL absorbing too much heat because of our CO2 and methane emissions. What IDIOTS these crooks and liars defending the polluting status quo are is absolutely breathtaking!    

Let us hope that soon this insane stupidity is exposed and stopped in its tracks.
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« Reply #453 on: January 04, 2017, 06:22:10 pm »
Cost for Cleanup at Hanford Rises Yet Again

The U.S. Department of Energy has reported that the projected cost to clean up highly radioactive sludge at the Hanford Site in Washington State has risen another $4.5 billion to a current projected total of $16.8 billion. The Waste Treatment Plant is now over four times its original budget and more than a decade behind schedule.

Over 56 million gallons of radioactive sludge, currently stored in leaking underground tanks, await the opening of the proposed facility, which will turn the waste into glass. The facility has been under a stop-work order for three years because of serious technical doubts.

Ralph Vartabedian, "The Price Tag for Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste at Hanford Site Just Went Up Another $4.5 Billion," Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2016.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hanford-cost-20161216-story.html



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« Reply #454 on: January 05, 2017, 06:10:35 pm »

Germany subsidises climate damage 
/ Lignite plant “in a coma” 

#Climate & CO2 #Finances

Federal Environment Agency


“Reduction of subsidies detrimental to the environment still stalling

Germany in 2012 provided 57 billion euros in subsidies that were detrimental to the environment, of which more than 90 percent were harmful to the climate, according to a report by Federal Environment Agency (UBA).

“It’s paradoxical: Germany commits itself to more climate protection on an international level. At the same time, in our own country, we reward behaviour that is detrimental to the climate with tax money,” said UBA president Maria Krautzberger in a press release.

Transport received the largest share of harmful subsidies with 28.6 billion euros, followed by the energy sector with 20.3 billion euros.

UBA criticises that lignite profited from tax benefits despite not facing international competition. UBA for the first time classifies VAT reductions for animal products as subsidies detrimental to the environment. It says that the VAT on those products should be raised from 7 percent to the usual 19 percent, freeing money to make fruits and vegetables or public transport cheaper.


#Fossil fuels

Frankfurter Rundschau

“Power plant in a coma”  ;D

Five people are employed around the clock in the control room of the first German lignite plant switched off to protect the climate, according to a feature by Steffen Höhne in Frankfurter Rundschau. They are there to keep the station fit for service but the head of the Buschhaus plant admits it is a challenge to motivate the team to manage a standstill.

In the coming years, seven more plants are to follow Buschhaus into the lignite emergency reserve with a total capacity of 2.7 gigawatts, equivalent to 13 percent of Germany’s lignite capacity.

The stations are to remain operational for a period of four years so they can produce power within eleven days’ notice in case of emergency. But many experts doubt that will ever be the case. 

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-subsidises-climate-damage-lignite-plant-coma
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« Reply #455 on: January 06, 2017, 07:50:22 pm »
Industrial Scars: The Hidden Costs of Consumption - Book Trailer 

Sep 29, 2016

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Industrial Scars, the new book by environmentalist and photographer J Henry Fair, who brings our attention to the tragic effects created by the human impact on our planet. The book will be published by Papadakis Publisher in October 2016: http://papadakis.net/books/industrial...

At first, his photographs are mesmerisingly beautiful: taken at bird’s eye perspective from a small plane, their shapes, colours and details give them an aesthetic quality that entrance and capture the imagination, yet concern and horror creep in on the realization of the true reality of the subject. Our ever-increasing demand for energy, regularly-changing eating habits and rampant consumerism are rapidly leading to the degradation of our planet.

Industrial Scars reveals unseen views of the effects of such production on our environment, exposing the secrets from oil drilling, hydro-fracking and coal-ash waste, to large scale agricultural production and abandoned mining operations. Each of Fair’s striking images are accompanied by detailed explanations from award-winning science writer, Lewis Smith, who writes about the effects of rampant consumerism on our environment and describes the development of industries through time and across the world. The overall message is clear – Fair is committed to reveal the evidence of the devastating costs of our choices on our planet. It is up to us to accept a consumer responsibility and environmental awareness, and to change our habits if we want to ensure a better world for future generations to enjoy.

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Our thanks to Michael Roberts for the music and Dirk Vandenberk for his help creating this video.

Earlier Video of TED presentation by J Henry Fair:


Published on Mar 11, 2013

Photojournalist J Henry Fair talks about the impact industry has on our environment. TEDxWakeForestU was held for the second time on February 23, 2013 on the campus of Wake Forest University.

Agelbert NOTE: Corpus Christi, Texas was named "Body of Christ". Thanks to the Koch Brothers and other Oil Polluters in Texas, that town will have to be renamed Mortis Corpus. And while we are at it, let's just rename a certain portion of the Mississippi for it's refinery earned nickname:  Cancer Alley



And plutocratic Democrats too!
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« Reply #456 on: January 07, 2017, 02:21:39 pm »

Here’s What You Need to Know on Six of Trump’s Cabinet Nominations
By Jo Miles

We all expected that Trump's cabinet would mean trouble for many of the things we care about, from clean energy and healthy communities to our very democracy itself.

But his chosen nominees are worse than we could have imagined.

These individuals, responsible for the policies and decisions that affect the lives and well-being of all Americans, have a combined net worth of more than $13 billion so far—that's five times the net worth of President Obama's cabinet and more wealth than a third of American households. As you might expect, their ties to corporations run deep and those ties are reflected in their positions and past actions.

Here's what you should know about what Trump's nominees mean for our food, water, environment and democracy—and how you can oppose their confirmations:


http://www.ecowatch.com/pruitt-tillerson-zinke-perry-2182272584.html?page=1
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« Reply #457 on: January 14, 2017, 03:06:14 pm »
END PHOSPHATE MINING IN FLORIDA

Phosphate mining is one of the most destructive practices on Earth — a brutal process that completely destroys landscapes and leaves behind 200-foot-tall, radioactive waste piles and threatens people and wildlife, from gopher tortoises to sandhill cranes.

In August 2016, a sinkhole opened under one of these waste piles, causing more than 200 million gallons of contaminated wastewater to enter the Floridan Aquifer. Yet now Florida's largest phosphate mining company wants to dig up an additional 50,000 acres of the state's beautiful, biodiverse lands, creating more radioactive waste.  >:(  :P

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/
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« Reply #458 on: January 14, 2017, 03:24:26 pm »


For Immediate Release, January 12, 2017

Contact: Lori Ann Burd, (971) 717-6405, laburd@biologicaldiversity.org


 Same Day: EPA Acknowledges Proven Dangers of Bee-killing Pesticides But Refuses to Restrict Them


WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today acknowledged for the first time that three of the nation’s most-used neonicotinoid pesticides pose significant risks to commercial honeybees. But in a second decision that represents a deep bow to the pesticide industry, the agency refused to restrict the use of any leading bee-killing pesticides despite broad evidence of their well-established role in alarming declines of pollinators.

The new analyses released today indicate that honeybees can be harmed by the widely-used pesticides clothianidin, thiamethoxam and dinetofuran. The agency also released today an updated assessment for a fourth leading neonicotinoid — imidacloprid — showing that in addition to harms to pollinators identified last year, the pesticide can also harm aquatic insects.

Yet on the same day the EPA revealed the dangers these pesticides pose to pollinators, it  reversed course and backed away from a proposed rule to place limited restrictions on use of the bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides when commercial honeybees are present in a field. Instead, the agency announced voluntary guidelines that impose no mandatory use restrictions.

“It’s outrageous that on the same day the EPA acknowledged these dangerous pesticides are killing bees it also reversed course on mandating restrictions on their use,” said Lori Ann Burd, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Environmental Health program. “This is like a doctor diagnosing your illness but then deciding to withhold the medicine you need to cure it.”

Neonicotinoids are a class of pesticides known to have both acute and chronic effects on honeybees, birds, butterflies and other pollinator species, and they are a major factor in overall pollinator declines. These systemic insecticides cause entire plants, including their pollen and nectar, to become toxic to pollinators. These chemicals are also slow to break down, and they build up in soil, where they pose an especially grave threat to thousands of species of ground-nesting native bees. In November the largest and most comprehensive ever global assessment of pollinators found that 40 percent of pollinating insects are threatened with extinction, naming neonicotinoids as a significant driver of wild pollinator declines.

“The new policy does virtually nothing to protect America’s thousands of declining native bee species or to curb the escalating use of these harmful neonicotinoid pesticides across hundreds of millions of acres in the United States,” said Burd. “It’s shocked that the EPA’s response to the crisis of declining pollinators and the abundant science linking that decline to neonicotinoid insecticides is to meekly offer a policy encouraging industry to consider restricting pesticide use in limited situations where plants are blooming while commercial honeybees have been brought in to work the fields. This is a rejection of science that should be deeply troubling to all Americans as we move into a Trump administration.”


Neonicotinoids have already been banned by the European Union, and in 2016 they were banned on all U.S. national wildlife refuges due to their harmful impacts on wildlife, including threatened and endangered species. Canada has also proposed a ban on a neonicotinoid because of its unacceptable threats.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/pesticides-01-12-2017.php
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« Reply #459 on: January 17, 2017, 05:04:42 pm »
82 False Killer Whales Dead in Massive Stranding Off Everglades National Park

January 16, 2017

Lorraine Chow

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Ninety-five false killer whales were stranded off the coast of Hog Key in Florida's Everglades National Park over the weekend.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote in a Facebook post this morning that 82 animals are now confirmed dead and 13 are unaccounted for. Earlier reports put the death toll at 81. 


http://www.ecowatch.com/false-killer-whales-dead-florida-2197384172.html

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Grace Alexander · Denver, Colorado

Geoengineering & the ramifications of Industrial Corporations who refuse to STOP their environmental terrorism. Mainstream media will NOT tell you how precarious our earth is now.

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Designer/Artist at RavensArt-RavenFashions

Only those who choose to be ignorant would be surprised at such developments while we, as a species, continue to poison our only environment that we share with all other creatures on this planet. To remain ignorant or not? That is the question. To action is the resolution.
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« Reply #460 on: January 18, 2017, 02:36:09 pm »
Agelbert NOTE: Enjoy the good news while you can. Trump will ENSURE that this common sense DOJ policy is reversed. 

Justice Department: Vessel Pollution Cases Set New Record in 2016

January 17, 2017 by Mike Schuler

The U.S. Department of Justice says 2016 was record year for prosecuting shipping companies and crew for illegal discharges from ocean-going vessels in U.S. waters.

At the end of fiscal year 2016, the Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division imposed criminal penalties of more than $363 million in fines and more than 32 years of imprisonment from cases related to intentional discharges of pollutants from vessels.

Often times these cases involve a crew’s use of a so-called “magic pipe” to dump oil-contaminated water overboard, which is almost always followed by an attempt to cover the illegal dumping up by failing to record these discharges in the ship’s oil record book. Charges, which can range from violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships to obstruction of justice or even conspiracy, can carry steep fines for shipping companies and lengthy prison sentences for any crewmembers involved.

In December 2016, the ENRD handed down its largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution after prosecuting Princess Cruise Lines, part of Carnival Corp, on felony charges related to illegal oil dumping at sea and intentional acts to cover it. The company ended up pleading guilty to seven felony charges and has been sentenced to pay a $40 million penalty.

The ENRD said that overall 2016 was one its most successful years in its history. Among its most notable enforcement successes were completing the historic settlement with BP arising from the tragic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010; and bringing a Clean Air Act case against Volkswagen.

“I am extremely proud and grateful to have led the men and women of this division through a landmark year in its long history of protecting, defending and preserving the environment and natural resources of this great nation,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden. “Together, we brought justice and an immense restoration effort to the Gulf shores spoiled by Deepwater Horizon, and resolution to automobile consumers and all Americans deprived of clean air by Volkswagen’s deceit. And we ended, fairly and honorably, the vast majority of protracted litigation that has stood in the way of a stronger nation-to-nation relationship between the United States and American Indian tribes.”

http://gcaptain.com/justice-department-vessel-pollution-cases-in-2016-set-new-record/
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« Reply #461 on: January 24, 2017, 05:38:20 pm »
Let the Pipelines Commence!

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/politics/trump-keystone-xl-dakota-access-pipelines-executive-actions/

Trump advances controversial oil pipelines with executive action


By Athena Jones, Jeremy Diamond and Gregory Krieg, CNN

Updated 4:27 PM ET, Tue January 24, 2017
Trump signs oil pipeline executive actions

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Tribe chief on Dakota pipeline: 'We made it'
CANNON BALL, ND - NOVEMBER 30: Snow covers Oceti Sakowin Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on November 30, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172 mile long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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US Navy veteran John Gutekanst from Athens, Ohio, waves an American flag as an activist approaches the police barricade with his hands up on a bridge near Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 4, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country gather at the camp trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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CANNON BALL, ND - DECEMBER 05: Military veterans are briefed on cold-weather safety issues and their overall role at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 5, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Over the weekend a large group of military veterans joined native Americans and activists from around the country who have been at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yesterday the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not grant an easement for the pipeline to cross under a lake on the Sioux Tribes Standing Rock reservation. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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    The decision to advance the pipelines would cast aside decisions by President Barack Obama's administration
    Trump during his campaign said he would streamline the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive actions to advance approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
The decision to advance the pipelines cast aside efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to block construction of the two pipelines, while making good on one of Trump's campaign promises.

As he signed the documents Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump also vowed to "renegotiate some of the terms" of the Keystone bill and said he would then seek to "get that pipeline built."

Trump also issued executive actions declaring oil pipelines constructed in the US should be built with US materials, streamlining the regulatory process for pipeline construction and shortening the environmental review process.
Trump during his campaign said he would streamline the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was stalled for years in the Obama administration until Obama denied approval for the pipeline's construction altogether in November 2015.
And Trump said for the first time in December that he supported construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which stalled last year amid protests opposing its construction on Native American lands. The Obama administration denied the company a permit it needed to complete the pipeline late last year.
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Protesters of the pipeline projects quickly condemned the decisions Tuesday.
"President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process," said Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II in a statement. "Americans know this pipeline was unfairly rerouted towards our nation and without our consent. The existing pipeline route risks infringing on our treaty rights, contaminating our water and the water of 17 million Americans downstream."
Environmental groups and activists were also quick to slam the decision, with Tom Steyer, the president of NextGen Climate, accusing the Trump administration of putting "corporate interests ahead of American interests."
"The pipelines are all risk and no reward, allowing corporate polluters to transport oil through our country to be sold on the global market, while putting our air and water at serious risk," he said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat from North Dakota where the Dakota Access Pipeline is being built, welcomed the move, as did Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia.
"What this country needs is more jobs, and that is why I have always been a proponent of the Keystone XL Pipeline and was an original cosponsor of legislation approving the Keystone XL Pipeline project," Manchin, who has already supported several of Trump's nominees and initiatives, said in a statement. "With a majority of Americans in support of the Keystone XL pipeline's construction, I'm glad we are finally moving forward with this important project."
Just as Trump on Tuesday flicked to the need to "renegotiate" the Keystone XL pipeline terms, Trump during his campaign argued not just for quick approval of the pipeline, which would shuttle oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, but also said he would push for a deal that would grant US taxpayers a share of the profits. Trump said that the US would approve the pipeline while also seeking a "better deal."
Trump's approval of both pipelines are early signs of how his administration will take a drastically different approach to energy and environmental issues. Beyond approving the pipelines, Trump has also vowed to slash environmental protection regulations and has nominated several skeptics of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change to key Cabinet posts dealing with environmental issues.
New wave of protests expected
Environmental groups and their progressive allies have already begun to mobilize against Trump's directive.
The Indigenous Environmental Network, a leading tribal organization dedicated to blocking further construction of the Dakota Access project, promised a new round of "massive mobilization and civil disobedience."
The documents signed by Trump have not yet been made public or provided to the tribes or their legal advocates. But Phillip Ellis, a spokesman for Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization that represents the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, told CNN they were prepared to act.
"Whatever the decision from the President and whatever the mechanism, we will pursue on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe all legal outlets to oppose the permitting (of pipeline construction)," he said. "We just don't know what that is yet."
A lawyer with Earthjustice, Jan Hasselman, said it was his understanding that the memorandum signed by Trump "directs the Army to review and approve the easement quickly, 'to the extent permitted by law.'"
Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline, needs an easement -- or legal permission -- from the Army Corps of Engineers to drill under Lake Oahe -- about a half-mile upstream from the Standing Rock tribe reservation border -- to complete the project.
"The Army Corps of Engineers still needs to make a decision on the easement and if they issue it without the (Environmental Impact Statement) process we will amend our complaint to challenge it legally on behalf of the tribe," he said.
The headsman council at the Oceti Sakowin camp, home to a large protest site during demonstrations last year, issued a call on Tuesday for "allies and people to stand up where they are" and engage in "mass civil disobedience as a showing of solidarity for Standing Rock."
Desiree Kane, who spent seven months at the Oceti Sakowin Camp as a media volunteer, told CNN she ready to answer the call.
"I leave tomorrow morning," she said in an email.
Organizers from 350.org, the Sierra Club, CREDO, and other groups have already planned a rally outside the White House at 5 p.m. Tuesday to protest the decision.
"The Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines would be a disaster for the land and water, the rights of Indigenous peoples, and the climate," they said in a statement. "Both pipelines ignited widespread grassroots resistance worldwide, and Trump's executive orders are renewing mass opposition to the projects."

I am surprised that ANYBODY would be surprised at the above actions of the Racist, Fascist fossil fuel industry PUPPET Trump.

Trump is perfectly in agreement with the following "Free Market Policy" (and he ALWAYS HAS BEEN!):


There are three legs to the fascism stool:


1) A melding of corporate and civil governance.

2) A foreign policy predicated on an aggressive nationalistic worldview.

3) An authoritarian government.

A political system that recognizes corporations as individual persons certainly provides one of those legs. Trump just completed the last two legs.

Have a nice day.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

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Re: Pollution
« Reply #462 on: January 24, 2017, 08:56:04 pm »
Environment | Tue Jan 24, 2017 | 2:17pm EST
Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land



The site of an oil pipeline spill is seen in an aerial photograph provided by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, near Stoughton, Saskatchewan, Canada taken on January 23, 2017. INAC/Handout via Reuters (at article link)


SNIPPET:

By Ethan Lou and Alastair Sharp | CALGARY, Alberta/TORONTO

A pipeline in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan has leaked 200,000 liters (52,834 gallons) of oil in an aboriginal community, the provincial government said on Monday.

The government was notified late in the afternoon on Friday, and 170,000 liters have since been recovered, said Doug McKnight, assistant deputy minister in the Ministry of the Economy, which regulates pipelines in Saskatchewan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-pipeline-leak-idUSKBN1572UJ

Agelbert NOTE: In other news, the Trump Adminstration just put a gag order on all US Government scientists (read: Prohibited to disseminate Climate Change DATA info to the public OR Congress) until further advised.

Have a nice fascist day. 
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Re: Pollution
« Reply #463 on: January 25, 2017, 05:51:56 pm »
  January 25, 2017

Thousands Take to the Streets Across the Country to Oppose the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines

Real News speaks to indigenous leaders and environmentalists who gathered in Washington, DC to oppose Trump's decision to revive two massive pipelines.


http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18205

Agelbert COMMENT: This was so predictable. Trump is a puppet of the fascist fossil fuel industry.  The Trumpers will rue the day they were made fools of by this profit over planet racist cretin.

Below is the TRUMP "jobs" plan:


Below is the TRUMP plan to drown Social Security and Medicare in a Mulvaney bathtub:

 
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« Reply #464 on: January 27, 2017, 05:34:14 pm »
Trump Climate Deniers in the Service of the Fossil Fuel Industry Polluters to carry out a POGROM at the EPA

Ebell:   Purge Necessary at EPA to Rid 'Scientists Who Believe the Global Warming Alarmist Agenda'

 Climate Nexus

In various interviews on Thursday, former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition chief Myron Ebell confirmed the Trump team would probably seek significant cuts to the agency's workforce and budget, but would not provide details of specific policy recommendations he made to the president.

Ebell, who told the AP that the federal government has "been staffed with scientists who believe the global-warming alarmist agenda," floated the idea of downsizing EPA from 15,000 to 5,000 employees as an "aspirational goal" but acknowledged that getting cuts that significant past Congress would be a challenge for the administration.

On the Hill, Sen Tom Harper, D-DE, blasted EPA Administrator nominee Scott Pruitt for giving answers "shockingly devoid of substance" to senators' written follow-up questions, as Oklahoman environmental lawyers lobbied lawmakers Wednesday to highlight Pruitt's cozy relationship with industry during his time as Oklahoma attorney general.

http://www.ecowatch.com/ebell-epa-purge-2218823381.html

Agelbert NOTE: The future looks BRIGHT, for Tardigrades.  Welcome to Fossil Fuel World. If humanity survives the current Fascist Fuel Industry PUPPET (Trumplethinskin ) at the White House, it will be a miraculous event. Have a nice day.





DOOM WEEK ON PLANET EARTH
It REALLY WAS a good ride, not for you and me, but for TPTB. So expect them to do WHATEVER to prolong their RIDE, against all scientific evidence that EXPLOITATION WITHOUT REFLECTION OF FELLOW EARTHLINGS OF ALL SPECIES (not just humans) AND THE BIOSPHERE FOR PROFIT OVER PLANET is deleterious (i.e. SUICIDAL/abysmally STUPID) to the Homo SAP species.
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