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?

Derrick Jensen Lashes Timber Barons

Posted by Rebel News Service on August 29th, 2008 | Link

Wild fire suppression isn’t good forest policy.

Denver Rage!

Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on August 28th, 2008 | Link

Democrats and Nuclear Power

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.

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Bush vs. Northern Flying Squirrels

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.

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Off the Couch and Into Action

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.

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Spraying Our Supper Spot

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.

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Curious Hire

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

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Energy at the Crossroads

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.”

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The Rural-Urban Wage Gap

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.

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