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North Carolina Activists Rise Up To Challenge Duke

February 25, 2016 Steve Norris, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Steve Norris of Beyond Extreme Energy. Asheville, NC - This weekend activists in North Carolina made a frontal assault on Duke Energy's plans for 11,000 MW of new gas fired electrical generation, and on the North Carolina Utilities Commission, which Duke has captured and whose commissioners have become Duke's willing stooges. As it is elsewhere, the NC permitting process for fracked and natural gas infrastructure​is shamefully rigged and predictable. Democracy has been undermined, and the regulators have taken it upon themselves to regulate us, the public, and to do the bidding of industry. Our goal for the weekend was to try to turn that around and restore energy democracy.

As Part Of Fossil Fuel Auction Protest, Author Buys Parcels

February 17, 2016 Canyon Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Canyon Rising Tide. Salt Lake City, UT - Today, over one hundred people erupted into song and disrupted the Utah Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City, Utah. The auction was then closed to the public as the entire audience was escorted outside. Activist and author, Terry Tempest Williams, attended and purchased several parcels totaling 1,751 acres in Grand County, Utah through a company she formed called Tempest Exploration. One was an 800 acre parcel 14 miles from and within view of Arches National Park that was leased for $1.50 / acre / year. The group of grassroots organizations, representing a broad-reaching alliance of community members, packed and overflowed the auction room.

Five Climate Angels Arrested For ‘Watching Over’ Santos CSG

February 10, 2016 Thom Mitchell, www.newmatilda.com , , ,
By Thom Mitchell for New Matilda - Five women aged between 50- and 75-years-old have been forcibly dragged from the road and arrested by police this morning at a Santos coal seam gas development near Narrabri, in north west New South Wales. The protestors are part of the ‘Climate Guardians’, a group of theatrical activists who assume the guise of angles to create awareness of the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Fossil Fuel Industry Pushing Exports Of Carbon Energy

February 9, 2016 Steve Horn, www.counterpunch.org , , ,
By Steve Horn for Counter Punch - As the U.S. presidential race dominates the media, it is easy to forget that both chambers of the U.S. Congress are currently in session. The U.S. Senate has put a major energy bill on the table, the first of its sort since 2007. The 237-page bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) —S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 — includes provisions that would expedite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting process, heap subsidies on coal technology, and fund research geared toward discovering a way to tap into methane hydrate reserves.

Inspiring Fossil Fuel Resistance Action In Northeast Pennsylvania

February 8, 2016 Staff, www.tedglick.com , ,
By Staff of Ted Glick - Very possibly as early as tomorrow, chain-saw-armed tree cutters hired by Williams Partners, a powerful pipeline-building corporation for the gas and oil industry, will try to cut down sugar maple trees on the property of Maryann Zeffer, Cathy and Megan Holleran and their family. For 65 years they have lived on this land, and for the last ten or so they have been producing delicious, pure, Pennsylvania maple syrup from those trees. This destruction won’t happen without a big fight.

Prelude To A Revolution, Ode To A Sleeping FERC

February 4, 2016 JLSTEWCT, www.beyondextremeenergy.org , ,
By JLSTEWCT for Beyond Extreme Energy - Every third Thursday, the morning bustle of Washington, DC’s Union Station plays host to a monthly prelude. Small tables are haphazardly pulled together and the 8am ritual commences. Gathered in a circle and passing around food and coffee, we plan our next round of unwelcome Truth Injections. The objective–to crack a little known but terribly powerful entity near the heart of the Fracked Gas Empire. This entity is frightening, but it houses no monsters. Instead, it houses something far more grotesque–a form of unacknowledged violence persisting under a bureaucratic veneer.

LNG: Just Another Dirty Fossil Fuel

February 3, 2016 Staff, http://www.nolngexports.org/ ,
By Staff of No LNG Exports - Two LNG export proposals in Oregon pose major threats to our climate and thereby pose major threats to the future of these Portland Middle Schoolers. This cohort from Sunnyside Environmental School is very active in advocating for their right to a healthy and stable climate. After learning about the LNG issue, these climate activists wrote the video's script and did most of the artwork. They have spoken at several Portland City Council hearings on fossil fuel issues and will continue their important work in the years to come.

Join Global Wave Of Resistance To Keep Coal, Oil + Gas In Ground

January 29, 2016 Staff, www.breakfree2016.org , , ,
By Staff of Break Free 2016 - From 7–15 May, 2016 we are mobilising to keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy and a sustainable future for all. After the Climate Summit in Paris we need to redouble efforts to end the use of destructive fossil fuels and choose a clean and just energy future. This May we hope to see more people than ever commit to joining actions that disrupt the industry’s power by targeting the world’s most dangerous and unnecessary fossil fuel projects, and supporting the most ambitious climate solutions.

How To Drive Stake Through Heart Of Zombie Fossil Fuel

January 21, 2016 Bill McKibben, www.latimes.com ,
By Bill McKibben for Los Angeles Times - When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea that your hair and your fingernails keep growing after you die. The lesson seemed to be that momentum was hard to kill. The same thing is at work right now with the fossil fuel industry. Even as global warming makes it clear that coal, natural gas and oil are yesterday's energy, two centuries of fossil fuel development means new projects keep emerging in zombie-like fashion. In fact, the climactic fight at the end of the fossil fuel era is underway.

Eating The Fossil Fuel Elephant, One Bite At A Time

January 18, 2016 Barbara G. Ellis, www.truth-out.org , , , ,
By Barbara G. Ellis for Truthout - During the December 2015 global protests over the feeble results of the Paris climate conference, more than 500 of us Portland environmentalists donned woollies, overcoats and hats, raised our umbrellas and marched across the Tilikum - the newest bridge in Portland. The disheartened were later cheered up by 350.org's successful environmental achievements in 2015, as shared by the organization's executive director May Boeve. We are eating the fossil fuel "elephant" one bite at a time.

1.5° C Is Better For All Of Us, And Here’s One Key Thing It Means

December 14, 2015 Staff, www.350.org , ,
By Staff of 350.org - One target has stormed back into contention at the Paris climate talks: 1.5 degrees Celsius. That number has been around for years, but in the past it was only pushed by a coalition of small island states and most vulnerable countries. Now that coalition has fresh backing from the likes of Canada, Australia, France, the USA and China. It has a good chance of being contained in the final text that emerges from the talks. Here’s three important things you should know about the number: The best thing about 1.5° C: It is better for all of us – not just small island states...

Newsletter: Opportunity For Climate Justice, If We Mobilize

December 13, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularesistance.org , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The COP21 resulted in an agreement that was 25 years in the making, beginning with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Until now the world had been unable to reach an agreement on combating climate change. Because the document required unanimous consensus it is the lowest common denominator. Countries that depend on oil as the basis of their economy, like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, as well as those with strong climate denialism, like Australia and the United States, which combines denialism with corporate domination of government, all had to agree. The lowest common denominator is not good enough.

Join Global Resistance: Keep Coal, Oil + Gas In The Ground

December 11, 2015 Staff, www.breakfree2016.org , ,
By Staff of Break Free 2016 - From 7–15 May, 2016 we are mobilising to keep fossil fuels in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. We now have a unique opportunity to end the use of destructive fossil fuels and choose a clean energy future. This May we hope to see more people than ever commit to joining actions that disrupt the industry’s power by targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, and supporting the most ambitious climate solutions.

Artists And Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” In Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests At Louvre

December 11, 2015 Lucky Tran, www.hyperallergic.com , ,
By Lucky Tran for Hyperallergic - PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry. Beginning around 12:30pm outside the museum, performers dressed in black held up umbrellas with letters spelling out the phrase “Fossil Free Culture.” Another, smaller group managed to gain access to the museum’s atrium beneath its famous glass pyramid.

Art, Oil And Arrests In Paris

December 10, 2015 Jess Worth, www.newint.org , , ,
By Jess Worth for New Internationalist Magazine - Art met protest in the Louvre today, as six performers ritualistically spilled ‘oil’ on the gleaming marble floor. As security guards, police and gun-toting soldiers looked on menacingly, the black-clad figures removed their shoes and socks, and walked ‘oily’ footprints in circles, to symbolise the polluting influence that two oil companies wield through their sponsorship of Paris’s most iconic museum. Singing ‘Total and Eni, out of the Louvre, allez allez allez!’ they held black umbrellas aloft, mirroring a much larger action that was happening outside, simultaneously.
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