Hundreds Protest Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline In Kitimat, B.C.

Tyler McCreary - (September 2, 2010 on www.rabbble.ca) - On August 31, 2010, hundreds of northern residents gathered outside the Riverlodge Recreation Centre in Kitimat, British Columbia, voicing their opposition to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Inside, the federal Joint Review Panel held its first public meeting on the project and listened to a litany of complaints and concerns about the proposal.

Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth
By Lester R. Brown
www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/book_bytes/2010/pb4ch05_ss4

Earth Policy Release    Book Byte   
August 31, 2010   

The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide.

1. Partly because of the dominance of the oil, gas, and coal industries, which have been providing cheap fuel by omitting the costs of climate change and air pollution from fuel prices, relatively little has been invested in developing the earth's geothermal heat resources. Over the last decade, geothermal energy has been growing at scarcely 3 percent a year.

WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (IPS) - Analysts have been warning for several years that the impacts of climate change directly relate to the national security of the U.S. and other countries, but the link has never been so clear as it is today in northwest Pakistan. The security implications of climate change first got official U.S. government attention this February, in the Quadrennial Defence Review, a four-yearly report from the Pentagon on the direction of national security strategy.

KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) - "If this is not God's wrath, what is?" 40-year-old taxi driver Bakht Zada said of the massive floods in Pakistan that have swept away his life earnings.

Background:

During the early decades of the nuclear age, people were 

told (and are still being told) that all nuclear waste will 

undergo "disposal" -- a word with no scientific definition, 

for humans have never successfully "disposed" of anything.

The Gulf at the Gas Station Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil? 
By Mark Engler  http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175284/

This might be an opportune time to make a disclosure: I am a BP shareholder. Admittedly, I’ve never attended the company’s annual meeting, and if I did, I would have very little weight to throw around.

I own two shares of BP stock. I received my stake

QUITO, Aug 4 (IPS) - "The trust fund that we have just established is historic, not only for Ecuador but for the entire world," said Rebeca Grynspan, associate administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), after signing an agreement with the government of Rafael Correa to leave 846 million barrels of oil under the ground in a pristine Amazon jungle wildlife reserve.

Please Encourage Rainforest Action Network’s New Leader to Work to End Primary Forest Logging

By Rainforest Portal http://www.rainforestportal.org/, a project of Ecological Internet
   August 4, 2010

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rebecca-Tarbotton/147667455249428?ref=mf&v=wall

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has a much needed new Executive Director – Rebecca Tarbotton. For almost two years Ecological Internet has worked to get the once luminary old-growth protection organization to stop supporting Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) certification of  industrial 1st time logging of 500 year trees in millions of year old primary forest as “well-managed” – while implying sustainability – for throw away consumer products like toilet paper, paper and lawn furniture. RAN co-founded FSC and is a long-time staunch member. Getting major forest protection organizations like RAN and Greenpeace to resign from FSC is a necessary first step before – together – we can campaign to end primary forest logging as a keystone response to global ecological sustainability.