Fossil Fuels, Sonoma County
Cotati Community Meeting Tonight on the Proposed ARCO Gas Station at Hwy 116 & Stony Point
by Christopher Fisher •
Fossil Fuels
Climate Change, Environmental Health & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Petaluma
Take the Gas or Else – If Corporations are People, What Manner of Citizen is Petaluma Safeway?
by Christopher Fisher •
Corporation repeatedly threatens litigation to compel the City of Petaluma to permit construction of a glaring environmental injustice next to a preschool for the purpose of corporate profit City Council on the verge of approving an exclusive gift to Safeway and its corporate parent, Cerberus Capital Management Bauer and Wolpert stand up for the Petaluma…
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Climate Change, Corporate Crime & Misbehavior, Fossil Fuels
What ExxonMobil Didn’t Say About Climate Change
by Christopher Fisher •
Exxon Misled the Public on Climate Change, Study Says As ExxonMobil responded to news reports in 2015 that said that the company had spread doubt about the risks of climate change despite its own extensive research in the field, it urged the public to “read the documents” for themselves. Now two Harvard researchers have done just that, reviewing nearly 200…
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Environmental Health & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, West Virginia
March 23 Alpha Natural Resources Coal Slurry Spill at Dawdry Creek, WV – Aerial Footage by Kanawha Forest Coalition
by Christopher Fisher •
The daily reality of living in an extraction economy.
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Activism, Fossil Fuels
Fight to Stop Keystone XL Moves to Nebraska
by Christopher Fisher •
Published on Mar 27, 2017 by the Real News Network. Retired school teacher and farmer Art Tanderup says he and nearly a hundred other landowners are pushing the Public Service Commission in Nebraska to deny permits for the pipeline KIM BROWN: Welcome to The Real News Network in Baltimore. I’m Kim Brown.Donald Trump, on Friday,…
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Film, Fossil Fuels
Coal & Appalachia – 150 Years of False Promise. Maria Gunnoe Urges You to Go See Blood on the Mountain
by Christopher Fisher •
Appalachia has been treated like the Third World of the U.S. for far too long. Since the end of the Civil War, the region has seen its natural resources extracted and sold, with all the profits shipped elsewhere. Its landscape has been radically scarred, leaving its streams polluted, its people sickened and killed, disposable to…
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Activism, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Sociopolitical Movements
Fossil Fuel Divestment Reaches $5 Trillion
by Christopher Fisher •
Activism, Fossil Fuels, Native American, Sociopolitical Movements
The light from Standing Rock: beautiful struggle shows the power of protest – Rebecca Solnit
by Christopher Fisher •
Tuesday December 6 No one saw it coming. But on a Sunday, word came that the US Army Corps of Engineers was withdrawing permission to build the Dakota Access pipeline under the Missouri river, just above the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. What do you do with a victory? Many on social media cautioned that this…
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Fossil Fuels, Native American
Army Corps of Engineers Denies Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
by Christopher Fisher •
Statement from the Army Corps of Engineers: By U.S. Army December 4, 2016 Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Works announced today.…
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Activism, Fossil Fuels, Native American
Mni Wiconi: The Stand at Standing Rock
by Christopher Fisher •
From filmmaker Lucian Read, creator of America Divided, comes this primer on the stand at Standing Rock.
Published on Nov 14, 2016.
Mni Wiconi features water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies trying to stop the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline – DAPL. Interviews in the film include Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman Dave Archambault II; Jodi Gillette, former White House advisor for Native American Affairs; Ladonna Allard, founder of Sacred Stone Camp; Winona LaDuke, founder of Honor the Earth; and Cody Hall, Red Warrior Camp spokesperson. Created by Divided Films with support from the WK Kellogg Foundation.
Read about this short film at Mother Jones.
