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Dam Projects Face Resistance in Georgia, by Natia Kuprashvili, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 5, 2012 (ENS) – The Georgian authorities are promising that 15 new hydroelectric power stations will create thousands of jobs and improve energy provision, but environmentalists and residents of the villages to be flooded have voiced strong objections. At least 20 villages are …

Woman defeats mine, saves wilderness, wins $175,000

Marilyn Baptiste, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for North America, led the Xeni Gwet'in community in defeating one of the largest proposed gold and copper mines in British Columbia that would have destroyed Fish Lake—a source of spiritual identity and livelihood for the Xeni Gwet’in. Photo courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.April 20, 2015, news.mongabay.com | “When a huge open-pit mine threatened a pristine lake and surrounding forest in British Columbia, Canada, Marilyn Baptiste jumped into action, spearheading efforts to collect environmental impact data and even physically turning away construction crews. Because of her efforts, the Canadian government rejected the mine, leaving wild a part of the Canadian Rockies upon which First Nations communities have depended for generations. Today, Baptiste was honored for her work when she was presented the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony in San Francisco.”

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“When a huge open-pit mine threatened a pristine lake and surrounding forest in British Columbia, Canada, Marilyn Baptiste jumped into action, spearheading efforts to collect environmental impact data and even physically turning away construction…
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A River Cleanup With A Twist

Windsor-Water-Restoraton-Event--LizDohrmanApril 13, 2015, www.americanrivers.org | “Stacks of muddy tires, bags bursting with plastic bottles, and an assortment of rusted out shopping carts and bike frames are what we typically have to show off at the end of a river cleanup…During the last week of March I joined 60 Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. (Keurig) volunteers for a river restoration event along Bennett’s Creek…Instead of sending out our volunteers with trash bags and pickers we handed out shovels and wheel barrows. Instead of digging tires out of the banks and snatching trash floating down stream our volunteers planted trees and shrubs and spread mulch cover.”

Robert Brothers‎GoodNews FortheEarthA River Cleanup With A Twist — Planting Trees
“National River Cleanup joined Keurig and the Nansemond River Preservation Alliance for volunteer river restoration activities in Suffolk, Virginia.
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Nebraskans outraged over oil-waste well plan

Nebraska resident holds photo of abandoned oil wellMarch 2, 2015, rapidcityjournal.com | “Residents of northwestern Nebraska are protesting a proposal by a Colorado energy company to store liquid oil-field waste products in an abandoned oil well that resides within the Ogallala Aquifer.  Numerous residents and officials from local governments across the region are opposing the proposed injection well in southern Sioux County, not far from Crawford, Neb.”

Robert Brothers‎GoodNews FortheEarth

Mainstream Grassroots Resistance to Big Energy
Nebraskans outraged over oil-waste well plan
Residents of northwestern Nebraska are protesting a proposal by a Colorado energy company to store liquid oil-field waste products in an abandoned oil well that resides within the Ogallala Aquifer.
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Colombia heads plan to create ‘ecological corridor’ and establish the world’s largest protected area

February 23, 2015, eyeonlatinamerica.wordpress.com | “Colombia has announced plans to lead a project that would see the creation of the world’s largest ‘ecological corridor’ across northern South America as part of the region’s contribution to the global fight against climate change. The reserve, which was proposed last week by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, would cover some 135 million hectares (1.35m km²), linking the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean via the northern Amazon Rainforest. It would become the largest protected area in the world, a title currently held by the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which covers 1.27m km².”

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Colombia heads plan to create ‘ecological corridor’ and establish the world’s largest protected area
Colombia proposes an ambitious plan that would establish the world’s largest ‘ecological corridor’, protecting vast swathes of Amazon rainforest stretching from…
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Feds Finally Assert Humboldt’s Right to Trinity River Water Under 1955 Agreement

January 2, 2015, lostcoastoutpost.com | “The U.S. Interior Department just made public a legal opinion on a 60-year-old water fight, affirming Humboldt County’s right under a 1955 agreement with state lawmakers for 50,000 acre-feet of Trinity River water each year. This is something that local officials and county tribal leaders have been advocating for a long, long time.”

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A Wonderful Win!
Feds Finally Assert Humboldt’s Right to Trinity River Water Under 1955 Agreement | Lost Coast…
The U.S. Interior Department just made public a legal opinion on a 60-year-old water fight, affirming Humboldt County’s right under a 1955 agreement with state…
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Filed under: Dam Removal, Protection, Restoration, Rivers & Wetlands, Water

Feds to Release Water for Klamath and Trinity Salmon; Farm Districts Protest

(Dan Brekke/KQED)August 22, 2014, blogs.kqed.org | “The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Friday that it will release water over the next several weeks to aid chinook salmon on the Klamath and Trinity rivers — a move that native tribes on the river have lobbied for to prevent a repeat of a catastrophic die-off that killed tens of thousands of fish headed upstream to spawn in 2002.”

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BUREAUCRAT STANDS UP FOR SALMON
A big shout out to David Murillo, Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director, for his openness to new information about the risk of a disastrous fish kill in the Klamath River, and his courage to reverse his earlier decision to withhold water, knowing that he would now be immediately challenged in court.
Given the choice between a massive fish kill vs. a bit more irrigation water for the Central Valley, he made the right call. Bureaucrats who stand up to big money need our support, so let’s give it to him! Call his office at 916-978-5000 during business hours, Monday-Friday.
Photo: BUREAUCRAT STANDS UP FOR SALMON A big shout out to David Murillo, Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director, for his openness to new information about the risk of a disastrous fish kill in the Klamath River, and his courage to reverse his earlier decision to withhold water, knowing that he would now be immediately challenged in court. Given the choice between a massive fish kill vs. a bit more irrigation water for the Central Valley, he made the right call. Bureaucrats who stand up to big money need our support, so let's give it to him! Call his office at 916-978-5000 during business hours, Monday-Friday.
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TransCanada Faces United Front in South Dakota: Tribes and Landowners Say NO KXL

Rosebud Sioux Tribe Spirit Camp to oppose Keystone XL pipeline near Ideal, South Dakota.August 21, 2014, nativenewsonline.net | “TransCanada faces yet another hurdle in its effort to build the Keystone XL pipeline. A coalition of long­existing pipeline fighters in South Dakota have come together to extend their share division of protecting the land, the water and the peoples of the area. An alliance of Protect the Sacred Movement of the Ihanktonwan/Yankton; the Bridger Spiritual Camp, Pte Ospaye; the Lower Brule Spiritual Camp, Wiconi Un Tipi; the Rosebud Spiritual Camp, Oyate Wahacanka Woecun; Dakota Rural Action; and the Indigenous Environmental Network are launching No KXL Dakota, a united effort to fight the Keystone XL pipeline.”

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TransCanada Faces United Front in South Dakota: Tribes and Landowners Say NO KXL
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Lummi Nation joins South Dakota pipeline fighters August 22 for launch of No KXL Dakota IHANKTONWAN, SOUTH…

 

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds EPA Efforts To Protect Appalachian Waters and Communities

Photo: BREAKING NEWS! We just scored a HUGE win today when a federal appeals court slammed the coal industry for objecting to common sense rules for protecting mountain streams and Appalachian communities from mountaintop removal mining. It's long overdue justice for the people of Appalachia, especially when the lower courts had previously sided with the coal industry! http://ow.ly/z3Hol The coal industry, along with the states of West Virginia and Kentucky, tried to strike a fatal blow to EPA's effort to regulate mountaintop removal mining. They wanted to forbid EPA from talking to other agencies during the permitting process. They even objected to EPA using scientific evidence when deciding if certain projects were just too polluting to go forward. But today, the court has put an end to their bullying tactics. There's still lots more to do to stop mountaintop removal mining, but today's resounding court victory will greatly help protect Appalachia! Click SHARE or LIKE to celebrate this victory and share your thoughts below! (photo courtesy of Vivian Stockman / OVEC)July 11, 2014, earthjustice.org | “Today, a federal appeals court sided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a large coalition of citizen groups in upholding an Obama administration policy to scrutinize pollution from severe mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.”

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BREAKING NEWS! We just scored a HUGE win today when a federal appeals court slammed the coal industry for objecting to common sense rules for protecting mountain streams and Appalachian communities from mountaintop removal mining. It’s long overdue justice for the people of Appalachia, especially when the lower courts had previously sided with the coal industry! http://ow.ly/z3Hol


The coal industry, along with the states of West Virginia and Kentucky, tried to strike a fatal blow to EPA’s effort to regulate mountaintop removal mining. They wanted to forbid EPA from talking to other agencies during the permitting process. They even objected to EPA using scientific evidence when deciding if certain projects were just too polluting to go forward. But today, the court has put an end to their bullying tactics.

There’s still lots more to do to stop mountaintop removal mining, but today’s resounding court victory will greatly help protect Appalachia! Click SHARE or LIKE to celebrate this victory and share your thoughts below!

(photo courtesy of Vivian Stockman / OVEC)

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One Man’s Mission to Curb Illegal Dumping of Texas Frack Waste

July 1, 2014, insideclimatenews.org | “Deputy Sheriff Hector Zertuche parked his pickup across the road from a gas and oil waste dump and watched through binoculars as a container truck unloaded a mountain of black sludge. Zertuche, the environmental crimes officer for Jim Wells County, is the law here when it comes to oil and gas waste.”

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“A Deputy Sheriff Doing His Job as the Environmental Crimes Officer for Jim Wells County, Texas.
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A Sheriff’s Mission – Stop Dumping of Texas Frack Waste
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ALICE, Texas—Deputy Sheriff Hector Zertuche parked his pickup across the road from a gas and oil waste dump and watched through binoculars as a container truck unloaded a…”
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Group recovers riverbank reserve

Green fingers: A reforestation team member carrying the native tree seedlings along the Kinabatangan river.

 

June 5, 2014, www.thestar.com.my | “A community-based group has ‘recovered and restored’ an 8ha stretch of riverbank reserve along the Kinabatangan river that was encroached on by an oil palm reserve by planting it with native trees.  The community eco-tourism cooperative known as Kopel took two weeks to uproot some 400 oil palm trees and replace them with 4,600 native trees after the Sabah government gave it the green light to take the land back.”

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KOTA KINABALU: A community-based group has “recovered and restored” an 8ha stretch of riverbank reserve along the Kinabatangan river that was encroached on by an oil palm…

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