Nader Stumps against Coal in WY
Posted by Rebel News Service on August 29th, 2008 | Link
Gov. Schweitzer are you listening up there in Montana?
A Red States rebellion is breaking out. It’s been going on for some time. The stakes are high and the odds are long. And the battles are waged over the essentials of life: water, food, wilderness, and human liberty.
“Those of us who are tired of being laid claim to by right-wing politicians and tut-tutted over by coastal liberals can now brandish a copy of Red State Rebels and declare, ‘This is the real story out here!’”
–Stan Cox, author of Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine
Posted by Rebel News Service on August 29th, 2008 | Link
Gov. Schweitzer are you listening up there in Montana?
Posted by Rebel News Service on August 29th, 2008 | Link
Wild fire suppression isn’t good forest policy.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link
No to nuclear power
By Dr. Morton Skorodin
This letter is in response to Will Marshall ’s comments on National Public Radio’s (91.7 FM) Evening Edition ( August 26, 2008 ) on nuclear power that were wrong from top to bottom. He claims that it is green. However, fossil fuels and therefore, carbon dioxide production, are required for the mining, milling, and transport of uranium and for the construction, operation, and eventual decommissioning of nuclear power plants. When the richer uranium mines are used up, the poor ones remaining will have prohibitive fossil fuel energy requirements. In addition, CFCs are required by nuclear plants. These are potent green house gases, more potent than carbon dioxide. Together, they will worsen global warming.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link
CHARLESTON, W.V.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared Tuesday that it has removed the West Virginia northern flying squirrel from protection under the Endangered Species Act – despite the squirrel’s small population and the looming threat that climate change poses to its habitat.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link
Olympic Inspiration for Peace
by David Krieger
The world has again witnessed two weeks of extraordinary beauty and talent by young athletes gathered from throughout the world. The athletes met in Beijing for the XXIXth Olympic Games of modern times and competed on a global stage. They inspired me and I believe they must have inspired billions of human beings in every part of the world by the amazing feats of speed, strength, agility and teamwork of which we humans are capable.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link
CHEMICALS A CONCERN
By Kerry Bokenfohr
At 5:30 a.m. Aug. 7, I met up with an employee of a company who was
about to spray pesticides along the front curbside of my house. I
asked him to stop because it is a favourite spot where my children
like to sit when they eat their supper. The employee told me he was
required to spray the property unless he had a letter from the city
stating the area was exempt.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link
Former timber lobbyist joins state agency
By: George Ochenski
08/28/2008
http://www.missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=05EF3F97-14D1-13A2-9F56C572706C513A
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 27th, 2008 | Link
ENERGY AT THE CROSSROADS
By Peter Montague
Vaclav Smil is a historian of technical advances — particularly in
the field of energy — and a Distinguished Professor at the University
of Manitoba in Canada. Over the years, Smil has written more than 25
books and many dozens of articles. In recent years he has been
examining human uses of energy over past millenia. As Smil says, “My
firm belief is that looking far ahead is done most profitably by
looking far back.”
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 27th, 2008 | Link
Oregon’s rural-urban wage gap increases
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — The wage gap between northeastern Oregon and the state’s I-5 corridor has widened since the 1970s.