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Andy Singer | Monsanto Pharmers/ media.cagle.com

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 16:22 — Dave Culver

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Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act

Mon, 04/29/2013 - 19:38 — Dave Culver

No longer can we sit idly by while corporate juggernauts like Monsanto triumph over the people through swindling and deceit. Share this image, the article and publicly denounce all politicians willing to sell their souls to Monsanto.

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society

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Fracking Debris Ten Times Too Radioactive for Hazardous Waste Landfill

Mon, 04/29/2013 - 19:16 — Dave Culver

The scariest thing here: Pennsylvania, which is currently studying radiation contamination associated with fracking wells, claims to be the only state that even requires landfills to monitor radiation levels.

Abby Zimet, Common Dreams

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04.25.13 - 7:47 PM | A truck carrying cuttings from a Pennsylvania fracking site was quarantined at a hazardous-waste landfill and sent back after its contents triggered a radiation alarm showing the load was emitting 96 microrem of radiation per hour; the landfill rejects waste with levels above 10 microrems. The radioactive material from a site in the Marcellus Shale formation was radium 226, a common contaminant from the decay of uranium-238 that tends to accumulate in bone and can get into water. Officials said “everything was by the book in this case" because the alarm went off as designed; the fracking operators can now either re-apply at that landfill or take their deadly waste to an out-of-state facility that accepts it - and yes, they exist. The scariest thing here: Pennsylvania, which is currently studying radiation contamination associated with fracking wells, claims to be the only state that even requires landfills to monitor radiation levels.

“It’s not too frequent that this occurs, but it’s not totally infrequent either.” - DEP spokesman John Poister, trying to be reassuring.

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Special Project | Keystone XL Pipeline: Week of April 28, 2013

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 15:08 — Dave Culver

8 New Items including:

  • 1 Million Public Comments
  • 'State Department' Keystone XL Report Actually Written By TransCanada Contractor
  • AFL-CIO’s Own Oil Disaster
  • Breaking news on Keystone XL
  • The Koch-Stone XL Pipeline
  • Many things are moving on Keystone XL
  • Lakota Indians Block ‘Keystone XL Pipeline’ Trucks in Six-Hour Standoff
  • Obama Has Caved Again: This Time on the Keystone XL Pipeline

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

1 Million Public Comments, Bill McKibben, 350.org

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Amelia Kroger

Friends,

Great news: we reached our goal, when the millionth public comment was submitted to the State Department opposing the Keystone XL pipeline very recently. That's a lot.

In fact, at about the same hour the President put out an Earth Day proclamation saying "nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change." Now we have a chance to see if he means it!

The 350 team put together this graphic to celebrate the occasion and send a message to the President -- can you share it around with your social networks?

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'State Department' Keystone XL Report Actually Written By TransCanada Contractor, Brad Johnson, Huffington Post

  • Because the impact statement was written by a TransCanada contractor, not by State Department officials, it should come as no surprise that it presents a worldview of a global economy inevitably dependent on dirty fossil fuels that is entirely at odds with the expressed views of Secretary of State John Kerry.
  • AFL-CIO’s Own Oil Disaster
  • Breaking news on Keystone XL

AFL-CIO’s Own Oil Disaster, Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, Ann Robertson's ZSpace Page

  • By offering support for the Keystone XL pipeline, the AFL-CIO wins a few construction jobs and a little money; but it sacrifices everything of value.
  • 5 Reasons Why the Keystone XL Pipeline is Bad for the Economy

Breaking news on Keystone XL, Bill McKibben, 350.org

  • President Obama will be making a decision in a few short months. I won’t lie: today’s report makes the odds look even tougher -- and the power of the fossil fuel lobby hasn’t waned one bit.
  • We're hosting strategy sessions across the country.
  • We're building a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

The Koch-Stone XL Pipeline, Bill McKibben, Reader Supported News

  • The irony of the Koch Brothers involvement should be lost on no one. The only argument for building the pipeline (which will export its oil off the continent and do nothing at all about gas prices) is that it will provide several thousand good-paying construction jobs."
  • Many things are moving on Keystone XL

Many things are moving on Keystone XL, Bill McKibben, 350.org

  • Many things are moving, and here’s how the situation seems to me right now
  • I don’t know how Keystone is going to come out—but whatever happens, the organizing we manage to do together will have a lot to do with the final result. 
  • Today, we get a powerful new tool to take on the fossil fuel industry

Lakota Indians Block ‘Keystone XL Pipeline’ Trucks in Six-Hour Standoff, Jorge Rivas, ColorLines

  • The XL Pipeline trucks are refusing to turn around claiming they have corperate rights that supercedes any other laws. --KILI, a Pine Ridge Rez radio station
  • Special Report | The Keystone Pipeline Revolt

Obama Has Caved Again: This Time on the Keystone XL Pipeline, Lydia Howell, Evergreene Digest

  • Tell President Obama: Don't expedite approval of the southern leg of Keystone XL or cut any corners to force this project through.
  • Another twist in the Keystone XL saga
  • Too bad President Obama has never said he would {quote)"take every possible step to expedite" bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, or raising the minimum wage, or passing the Employee Free Choice Act, or restoring our civil liberties, or bringing Bush-era torturers to account, or..., or...,  or... . In fact, he's done none of those things. Sign petition, call, write, etc.

 

 
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Milt Prigee | Earth Day / media.cagle.com

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 14:16 — Dave Culver

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Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On

Sun, 04/28/2013 - 14:08 — Dave Culver

  • Increasingly, vast, open-pit frac-sand mines blight the landscape like earth’s own acne. Fracking’s evil twin: the mining of prehistoric sand.
  • Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act

Terry J. Allen, In These Times

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A 2011 map by Wisconsin state senior geologist Bruce Brown shows the best sand for fracking in red. 

March 5, 2013 | Safely buried since the Pleistocene age, danger is stirring. Driven by unbridled lust for energy and wealth, small men with giant tools are unleashing a lethal demon on villages and farms across America’s upper Midwest.

OK, now that I have your attention, here’s the less sensational, but still chilling version of how the mining of prehistoric sands—used in the hydraulic fracking of oil and gas—threatens the health of humans and the environment.

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Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act, Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society

No longer can we sit idly by while corporate juggernauts like Monsanto triumph over the people through swindling and deceit. Share this article and publicly denounce all politicians willing to sell their souls to Monsanto.

 

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