The State Department’s draft environmental impact statement regarding TransCanada’s Keystone XL is challenged by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EcoWatch reports that the EPA based its challenge to State’s environmental impact statement, … objecting to its conclusion that the Keystone XL presents no significant climate change impact or environment risk. This criticism raises an important [...]
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Debating, Activist Style: Tar Sands Blockade and Walmart Strikers (VIDEO)
What’s happening in Winnsboro, Texas, and Elwood, Illinois, is clearly not nearly as newsworthy as tonight’s CPD production, even though that is controlled by Democratic and Republican parties, so you know what to expect – but that’s the stuff of non-stop coverage. But in Winnsboro and Elwood, We the People actions are taking place. Those [...]
Keystone Options: ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ or ‘Half-Way’ Support
It wasn’t in Tampa. Or about Isaac. So, of course, it wasn’t much noticed. But yesterday, in Livingston, Texas, “multi-generational” advocates and activists continued the efforts to stop the construction of the Tar Sands / Keystone pipeline. A small group of people, with the usual minimal media interest in their actions successfully stopped, at least for [...]
It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature, or Ignore Global Warming
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. If you’re of the right age, you’ll remember this commercial, by Chiffon Margarine. “It not nice to fool Mother Nature” ads ran from 1971 to 1979. I’m certainly not the first person who has thought about these popular-at-the-time ads as related (at least in some [...]
There is No Planet B: Keystone, Petroleum Industry and 2012 Elections
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Shhhhh. Don’t talk about climate change; omit references to greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the Democratic response. From the Republican side of things, it’s totally cool to talk about it, in a derogatory, dismissive sort of way. Following months of protests regarding the Keystone / Tar [...]
Occupy and “isms,” banks and unions
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. This is stating the obvious, but I, at least, need “obvious” reminders periodically. The Occupy movement is made up of people. And any time you have even a few people, much less hundreds or thousands gathered, especially in public spaces, there will frequently be some [...]
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