National Security Demands Secrecy in the Heart of Arkansas Within a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, ExxonMobil was in charge of the clean-up, the U.S. government had established a no-fly zone over the area, some 40 residents were starting their second week of evacuation, ExxonMobil was threatening to […]
By William Boardman [email protected] What Is It Called When You Outsource Your Autonomy? So it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact [1]statement[1] issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That’s the report that assured people tar sands oil was going to be developed […]
“Don’t Frack My Mother” is a new song and music video from Artists Against Fracking that aims to put public pressure on Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking in New York. Artists Against Fracking was formed by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon in August 2012 and includes over 200 artists such as Alec Baldwin, Anne […]
By William Boardman [email protected] The same day that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was promising a “fair and transparent” review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast, the CEO of the company building that pipeline, TransCanada’s Russ Girling, was reported as saying that his company’s “Plan A” […]
Senators Bernie Sanders and Barbara Boxer, along with representatives of many mainstream environmental groups and think tanks, announced comprehensive climate change legislation that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, February 14, 2013, on Capitol Hill. “This is a gold-standard bill,” Boxer said. “Every once in a while we have them.” According […]