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International Day Of ‘Cheeky’ Climate Actions

June 7, 2015 Louise Hazan, www.gofossilfree.org Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By Louise Hazan in GoFossilFree.org. Monday saw a huge day of international, coordinated action against the fossil fuel industry and corporations fuelling the climate crisis — from the UK where grassroots activist network Reclaim the Power launched a record-breaking 18 creative actions in a day to big events in Luxembourg, France, Switzerland and Germany. Blockades, shutdowns, lock-ons, love-ins, fracking tripod rigs and one very cheeky protest…..Reclaim the Power’s day of action against the fossil fuel industry saw 18 different actions connecting the dots between big energy firms, government ministers, public relations companies, oil arts sponsorship and the fracking industry.

Bank Of America Dumps Coal Mining In Sweeping New Policy

May 6, 2015 Claire Sandberg, www.ran.org Resist! Bank of America, Coal

Bank of America unveiled a new global coal mining policy today committing to reduce exposure to coal mining companies across the board. Bank of America’s Andrew Plepler announced the new policy at the bank’s annual shareholder meeting this morning in Charlotte, stating: "With regard to coal, over the past several years we have been gradually and consistently reducing our credit exposure to companies focused on coal mining. Our new policy...reflects our decision to continue to reduce our credit exposure over time to the coal mining sector globally.” The policy change comes after four years of campaigning from Rainforest Action Network and other groups, and is the strongest policy of its kind to date. “Today’s announcement from Bank of America truly represents a sea change: it acknowledges the responsibility that the financial sector bears for supporting and profiting from the fossil fuel industry and the climate chaos it has caused,” said Rainforest Action Network Climate and Energy Program Director Amanda Starbuck.

Syracuse University Divests From Carbon Fuels

April 5, 2015 Faith Meckley, www.theithacan.org Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Divestment, Oil and Gas, Student Activism

On the last day of March, Syracuse University announced it will be divesting — or withdrawing its endowment fund investments — from coal and other fossil fuel companies. The Orange Nation is joining a growing list of colleges and universities who are taking this step, in addition to municipalities, religious institutions, foundations and more. The movement to divest has primarily been led by college students and broadcasted by environmental activist organization 350.org. With hundreds of active student organizations across the country, sit-ins, marches and banner drops are becoming more and more common. The City of Ithaca is on the list of municipalities who have divested, and the Park Foundation — an invaluable financial source for the Park School of Communications and Ithaca College as a whole — is among the list of divested foundations. The college, however, is nowhere to be found on 350’s “Divestment Commitments” list. The college’s student organization aimed at pressuring administration to take this step, Divest IC, has faltered and become inactive. Without it, President Tom Rochon and the Board of Trustees are off the hook.

Great Barrier Reef Campaign: Scientists Against Coal Projects

March 23, 2015 Oliver Milman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Biodiversity, Coal, Environment, Ocean, Science

Australia’s leading coral reef scientists have called for huge coalmining and port developments in Queensland to be scrapped in order to avoid “permanent damage” to the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) report, compiled by experts from five Australian universities and submitted to the United Nations, warns that “industrialising the Great Barrier Reef coastline will cause further stress to what is already a fragile ecosystem.” The report notes that nine proposed mines in theGalilee Basin, in central Queensland, will produce coal that will emit an estimated 705m tonnes of carbon dioxide at capacity – making the Galilee Basin region the seventh largest source of emissions in the world when compared to countries. Climate change, driven by excess emissions, has been cited as the leading long-term threat to the Great Barrier Reef. Corals bleach and die as water warms and struggle to grow as oceans acidify.

Dominion Headquarters Blocked In Richmond

February 23, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Blockades, Coal, Fracking, Gas, Pipelines

At 7:00 a.m. a group of over 50 activists blocked vehicle access to Dominion Resources’ Tredegar Campus in Richmond, Virginia to protest the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Traffic quickly formed on Tredegar Street as activists stretched large banners across the road and paraded large puppets around the scene. Two activists remain suspended from a pedestrian bridge with a banner reading “Stop Selling Our Futures” while a larger crowd occupy the access way to the campus below. “I’ve been born and raised in Virginia, where we have pride in our land”, said Phil Cunningham, from Prince Edward County. “Now Dominion wants to come steal people’s property and sell our futures to the highest bidder. We are here to send the message to Dominion that people matter more than profits. This is our Keystone XL, and we will stop it. ”

Campus Divestment Campaign’s Investment In Young Activists

February 15, 2015 Moira Donovan, www.rabble.ca Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Divestment, Oil & Gas, Student Activism, Youth

As with many student-led movements, divestment campaigns have been dismissed by critics in the fossil fuel industry as nothing more than naïve idealism. Some researchers have also suggested that divestment campaigns, focused as they are on investments that directly relate to fossil fuels, would have limited economic impact. The economic tethers of fossil fuels, they say, stretch throughout the economy, including to the sites of investment that some divestment movements have suggested as alternatives. Yet for the students involved, understanding divestment as a strictly economic tool misses the point. Compared to private companies or governments, says Malkolm Boothroyd of Divest UVic, universities are a realistic starting point for divestment. Just as importantly, he adds, "Universities are well respected. When a university comes out and says it is not moral to invest in fossil fuels, that creates momentum." Like the campaign for divestment from South Africa in the 1980s or tobacco in the 1990s, the current movement seeks to strip fossil fuels of their social license. For James Hutt of Divest Dal, the purpose of divestment is not just to economically undermine fossil fuels, but to promote the idea that that they're socially unacceptable.

Protests Around The South Target Fossil Fuels

February 15, 2015 Sue Sturgis, www.southernstudies.org Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Fracking, Oil & Gas

Residents of Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia gathered this week outside a country store, rural county courthouses, a Baptist church and a school library to protest the fossil-fuel industry's harm to local communities. With the theme "Safeguard America's Resources," the Feb. 12 events included a march in Virginia to draw attention to the effects of natural gas pipelines on mountain communities; a prayer vigil and rallies in North Carolina against fracking, power plant pollution and coal ash dumping; and a student protest at Valdosta State University opposing a local pipeline project and calling on the University System of Georgia school to divest from fossil fuels. "The three-state unified message is a call to give affected communities the right to say no," according to a statement from the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), a North Carolina-based group working in seven states to protect the environment and public health.

World Calls For Divestment From Fossil Fuels

February 14, 2015 350.org Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Climate Change, Coal, Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Oil & Gas

Today, right now, the world is standing in a window of opportunity. Right now, the fossil fuel industry is on the defensive -- from fracking bans, to the President's renewed pledge to veto the Keystone XL bill, to a fossil fuel divestment movement that is truly hitting its stride. Today we're demonstrating that there are thousands of people around the world who know that fossil fuel divestment is both the smart thing to do and the right thing -- and those people are willing to take action in their own communities. We know that if it's wrong to wreck the climate, then it's wrong to profit from that wreckage. Earlier this week, the fossil fuel industry launched a concerted counter-attack on the divestment movement, only to have their efforts fall rather flat. This (perhaps apocryphal) Gandhi quote feels more apt than ever: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Women Stand Their Ground Against Big Coal

February 9, 2015 Samantha Hargreaves and Hibist Kassa, www.sacsis.org.za Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment

Mama Life is right. Coal kills people and devastates local environments. Coal divides communities when corporations form local alliances that are detrimental to the majority. Coal exploits labour, both paid mining jobs and unpaid women’s work reproducing labour and community. Coal is notoriously fickle in price, with nearly a 40% price drop since 2011. And Coal contributes most significantly to climate change, and the destruction of our planet. More than 50 grassroots women activists gathered from around the region in late-January 2015 to stand their ground against Big Coal. Their six-day exchange and strategy meeting involved dozens of organisations in South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Grassroots Winning As Coal Export Terminals Stopped

January 13, 2015 Katherine Bagley, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment

The U.S. coal export industry continued its losing streak as 2014 ended and 2015 began. A coal terminal project in Louisiana lost its permit in state court, and one in Washington ran into a stiff legal challenge. Last month, the company behind several other planned terminals sold its remaining projects to a high-risk investment firm at a major loss. The developments continue a string of victories for environment groups fighting the export of coal to developing economies such as China. Of 15 proposals to build major new coal export facilities across the U.S., all but four have been defeated or canceled within the past two years. And only a few existing facilities have won approval to expand. "This is an ugly, ugly time for coal exports," said Clark Williams Derry, research director for the Seattle-based Sightline Institute, a nonprofit think tank that promotes sustainable policies for the Pacific Northwest.

How Solar Power Could Slay The Fossil Fuel Empire By 2030

December 26, 2014 Nafeez Ahmed, www.motherboard.vice.com Educate! Coal, Extreme Energy, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Solar

In just 15 years, the world as we know it will have transformed forever. The age of oil, gas, coal and nuclear will be over. A new age of clean power and smarter cars will fundamentally, totally, and permanently disrupt the existing fossil fuel-dependent industrial infrastructure in a way that even the most starry-eyed proponents of ‘green energy’ could never have imagined. We are in the midst of transformation: Solar panels 154 times cheaper than 1970, extraction of fossil fuels getting more expensive, solar has improved its cost basis by 5,355 times relative to oil since 1970, there are 300,000 solar installations in the US right now, by 2022 there will be 20 million, globally installed solar capacity will reach 56.7 terrawatts (TW) in the next 15 years projected world energy demand at that time would be 16.9 TW -- remember the phrase "clean disruption."

Corporate Lawyer & Farm-Hand Continue Week Of Protest

December 6, 2014 Front Line Action, www.frontlineaction.org Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment, Protest

Sustained protest against Whitehaven Coal’s controversial Maules Creek mine in the Leard State Forest continues this morning, as two men chained themselves to a concrete barrel at Whitehaven Coal’s Gunnedah coal handling and preparation plant. 31 year old Maules Creek farm-hand Adam Ryan and 37 year old, Sydney based father and corporate lawyer, Matthew Drake-Brockman have taken action to protest against what Drake-Brockman describes as the ‘lax approval processes’ that allowed the scandal-plagued mine to go ahead. Mr Ryan, born in nearby Wee Waa, cited concerns about mining impacts on water and the subsequent effect on the local agricultural industry, saying “this mine is destroying the community that I have known my whole life.

Lawsuit: Stop Big Coal’s Misuse Of Public Lands

November 26, 2014 Friends of the Earth, www.foe.org Organize! Coal, Energy, Environment, Land, Law

Friends of the Earth and the Western Organization of Resource Councils, with the support of philanthropist Paul G. Allen, today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to require the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for the federal coal leasing program. There has not been a comprehensive environmental review of the federal coal leasing program since 1979. Since that time, scientific evidence has established that greenhouse gases produced by coal mining and combustion endanger the public health and welfare.

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