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Colombia Halts Hydrocarbon Exploration in World Heritage Area
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 5, 2012 (ENS) – Colombia’s Council of State has ordered a halt to exploration for oil and gas in the country’s Quindío region, which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Coffee Cultural Landscape. The region produces some of the world’s highest quality coffee. Issued last week, the government decree requires …

Town passes gas drilling moratorium

March 14, 2012, www.thedailystar.com | WEST ONEONTA  – The Oneonta Town Board passed a 12-month moratorium on natural gas drilling by a one-vote margin Tuesday night.

The vote took place after a markedly less-charged petitioner’s period than the official public hearing Feb. 13.

Board members William Mirabito and Scott Gravelin voted against the moratorium. Supervisor Robert Wood and board member Janet Hurley-Quackenbush were joined by new board member David Jones — who rode a strong anti-drilling platform to a victory at the polls last November — in voting for it.

“YAY! The Oneonta Town Board passed a 12-month moratorium on natural gas drilling by a one-vote margin Tuesday night.”
Town passes gas drilling moratorium
thedailystar.com
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Senate rejects expediting Keystone pipeline

March 5, 2012, Social Reader | “In the wake of lobbying by President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, the Senate Thursday defeated legislation to speed up construction of a U-S.-Canadian oil pipeline.”

 

“~ OBAMA MADE PHONE CALLS TO SENATORS TO STOP TAR SANDS PIPELINE … and they did!
~ 802,000 PEOPLE IN 24 HOURS LOBBIED AGAINST IT.
but “… minutes after the vote in the Senate, an industry front group, the American Petroluem Institute, sent out a press release celebrating that Sen. John Hoeven’s amendment to approve the pipeline had passed.” For more choice tidbits like this, stay tuned to one of the main forces for climate solutions: www.350.org “
Senate rejects Keystone pipeline
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Under lobbying by President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, the Senate defeated a measure to expedite construction of a U.-S.-Canadian oil pipeline.
  • Comments:
    • Coquille Permaculture: “I’m glad. The company has no plan, but wants the pipeline to go to Texas, which if it was for America it wouldn’t need to. Secondly, we all need to stop our addiction to Oil, and that is exactly what it is, a world wide addiction worse then crack.”
    • Veronica Smith: “WE need scientists to stand up to new ideas!”

     

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$18 Billion judgement by Ecuador against Chevron affirmed by US Court of Appeals

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a major blow to Chevron’s efforts to evade responsibility for the devastation it caused in the Amazon rainforest of Northeastern Ecuador.

The appeals court reversed an order by District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan that purported to block enforcement of an $18 billion judgment delivered by an Ecuadorian court in February 2011

Here’s a related story, http://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2012/0104-chevron-guilty-verdict-upheld-by-ecuador-appellate-court.html

Chevron contamination in Ecuador

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Anima Mundi documentary – Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Gaia theory

2011, www.cultureunplugged.com | “When I first began researching for the Anima Mundi documentary (2011) I had assumed permaculture was about growing fruit and vegetables and that was pretty much it, but I was to learn that permaculture encompassed so much more including sustainable housing, self-employment, complimentary healthcare, education, economics and energy, especially embodied energy.”

For a short time my first documentary, Anima Mundi – Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Gaia theory is available to watch for free at Culture Unplugged, an online film festival. Anima Mundi is signed with a US distributor who has ripped me off, thus I have allowed the film to be shown free in their licensed territories by the festival. www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/11753/Anima-Mundi
Please vote for Anima Mundi.
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When I first began researching for the Anima Mundi documentary (2011) I had assumed permaculture was about growing fruit and vegetables and that wa
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