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Meanwhile In India, It Is So Hot The Roads Are Melting, “One Billion People Impacted”
Meanwhile In India, It Is So Hot The Roads Are Melting, “One Billion People Impacted” While we patiently await Wall Street’s weathermen, formerly known as economists, to blame the next swoon in US GDP on California’s relentless drought, now in its fourth year, we wonder how many double seasonally-adjusted, pro-forma, non-GAAP GDP points India’s blistering […]
Mexico’s Pemex Plagued By Deadly Offshore Explosions and Major Pipeline Spills
Mexico’s Pemex Plagued By Deadly Offshore Explosions and Major Pipeline Spills It’s been a disastrous year for Pemex, the state-owned Mexican oil company at the center of the nation’s landmark energy reforms. In just over a month, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) starred in three tragic incidents, two fatal. First was a deadly explosion aboard a Pemex offshore oil […]
Fukushima May Be At Risk Of Imminent “Hydrogen Explosion”
Fukushima May Be At Risk Of Imminent “Hydrogen Explosion” Containers holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are at risk of hydrogen explosions, The Telegraph reports, with 10% of them found to be leaking. The discovery was reported to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which raised concerns surrounding the potential hazards of accumulated […]
The Chilling Thing an Industry Insider Said about Glyphosate, GMOs, and Why He Sold His Conventional Seeds Company
The Chilling Thing an Industry Insider Said about Glyphosate, GMOs, and Why He Sold His Conventional Seeds Company Dan Romig, who along with his father co-founded Trigen Seed LLC in 1993 and bloodstresold to Limagrain Cereal Seeds in 2010, is an insider in the seeds industry. His father was head of R&D at Northrup King, a subsidiary of […]
Meet The Man Responsible For Oklahoma’s Earthquake Epidemic
Meet The Man Responsible For Oklahoma’s Earthquake Epidemic As part of the US shale miracle, a far less pleasant, and talked about side-effect are the millions of gallons of wastewater: that key component of the new drilling technology that allows previously inaccessible deposits to be extracted. And, as increasingly more states are finding out, the […]
Oil Industry Can No Longer Ignore Climate Action
Oil Industry Can No Longer Ignore Climate Action Global momentum towards action on climate change is building in the lead up to international negotiations, set to take place later this year in Paris. With the writing on the wall, some of the largest oil companies are banding together in order not to be left out […]
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of TheirEnslavement in Industrial Monocultures As you may have noticed, last week the media was once again filled with yet another round of collapsing honeybee stories, this time the coverage being about the loss of 42.1 percent of hives in the US over the past year, the second largest die-off […]
New York State Reverses Decision, Requires Full Environmental Review of Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
New York State Reverses Decision, Requires Full Environmental Review of Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility In what came as a welcome surprise to activists in Albany, New York, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) reversed an earlier decision and now will require a full environmental review for a proposed tar sands oil heating facility at the […]
The Case for Nationalizing Monsanto
The Case for Nationalizing Monsanto Ridding the world of Monsanto via a state buy-out would be a boon to humanity. Capitalism fails in two situations: monopoly and state-capital cronyism. Monopoly extinguishes competition and that effectively extinguishes capitalism. When the elites of the state and private capital collude, i.e. crony capitalism, the few gain power and wealth […]
Monsanto Bites Back
Monsanto Bites Back Monsanto, the U.S. agribusiness giant that controls a quarter of the entire global seed market, could soon be even bigger and more powerful than it already is, following renewed speculation over its interest in Swiss agrichemicals firm Syngenta. The logic behind the deal is clear: Monsanto ranks as the world’s largest purveyor […]
We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY
We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY On Wednesday, Josh Fox, director of “Gasland,” the documentary which exposed the harms of the fracking industry, was arrested along with 20 other people after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate New […]
Shell Approval May Trigger Resource Race In The Arctic
Shell Approval May Trigger Resource Race In The Arctic In a few short months Shell will (re)enter the Chukchi Sea. The oil and gas major still awaits approval from a number of state and federal agencies, but in early May the company received the consent of the Obama administration to explore the remote Arctic sea 70 miles […]
Alberta forest fire forces evacuation of oilsands facilities
Alberta forest fire forces evacuation of oilsands facilities Cenovus and CNRL shut down operations as precautionary move Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources Limited have evacuated their facilities within the Cold Lake Air Weapons range, close to Alberta’s eastern border, due to an out-of-control forest fire in the area. “Yesterday, CNRL evacuated their plant facilities in the Primrose area […]
Human manure: Closing the nutrient loop
Human manure: Closing the nutrient loop Using human urine and faeces as fertiliser may seem an unappetising concept but it’s been common practice for centuries. In the sewage systems of today, which deal with millions of tonnes of domestic waste and industrial effluent, this human fertiliser comes in the form of treatedsewage sludge. Promoting a […]
