Tar Sands Giant Suncor Announces Fewer Safety Checks To Avoid “Foregone Revenue” (via Desmogblog)This is a guest post by Don Lieber, originally published on PlanetSave. Suncor Energy, the largest producer in Canada’s tar sands oil operations, has announced it will require fewer major safety maintenance “shut-down” checks at its Alberta production sites, decreasing the required checks to…
US Coal Exports: “The Worst Of The Worst” (via Planetsave)First, a historical parallel: The US tobacco industry, during the late 1990s, targeted children in underdeveloped parts of the world — South America, Asia, and the middle-East — with a particularly abhorrent marketing program: they gave away free cigarettes to children in order to introduce them…
Fracking Waste: Too Toxic, Even For A Hazardous Waste Site (via Planetsave)On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous. The truck was carrying highly radioactive radium-226 in concentrations 86 times higher than allowed per EPA limits. After…
The Great Green Wall Of Africa — A 4,000 Mile Defense Against Climate Change (via Planetsave)One of the most unique large-scale international climate change projects is underway in Africa. A 4,000 mile “wall of trees” is being constructed across the east-west axis of the continent as a defense against rapid, expanding desertification of the Sahara. 11 nations — Mauritania, Senegal,…
Opposition To Keystone Pipeline, Stigmatization Of Tar Sands Increasing (Pictures) (via Planetsave)Public opposition to the Keystone “Tar Sands” Pipeline continues to increase, with protests against ‘the dirtiest fuel on the planet‘ taking new and increasingly organized public forms of civil disobedience in the United States and around the world. Last week, the “National Week of Action…
Largest German Research Center Cuts Ties to Alberta Tar Sands (via Planetsave)
The fossil-fuel university divestment campaign, started by the international climate change organization 350.org, is gaining momentum, as over two hundred student groupshave now formed official campaigns on campuses across the United States. This week, author, activist, and 350.org founder Bill McKibben…
