The US Interior Department July 16 opened 2.6 million acres of potentially oil-rich territory in northern Alaska to exploration, but deferred for ten years a decision on opening 600,000 acres north of Teshekpuk Lake that is the summer home of… Read moreInterior Department opens Alaska North Slope to oil biz; enviros applaud
The insidious thing about Al Gore is that he superficially sounds pretty good to environmentalists—so much so, that his ideas are even blasted as extremism by right-wing idiots. But if you scratch them, there is always less there than meets… Read moreAl Gore’s pseudo-ecology strikes again
Is this satire? Please tell us this is satire. From AsiaOne News, July 12:
Japan’s fishing industry, one of the world’s largest, will stage a mass strike July 15 to protest soaring fuel costs. Some 200,000 fishing boats will cancel their trips for one day to demand government action. “Many fishermen cannot make ends… Read moreJapanese fishermen strike over fuel costs
In the new “Failed States Index” compiled by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, Somalia has displaced Sudan at the top of the list. Sudan is number two, followed by Zimbabwe and Chad. Iraq, which ranked second last… Read moreSomalia tops “Failed States Index”
A new Energy Department report says much about how elites view the oil shock—and why the US is in Iraq. It actually mentions the impacts of biofuels, but that’s a sideshow to the inexorable threat of China‘s economic rise. This synopsis does not… Read moreEnergy Department sees surging world consumption
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has completed a new classified assessment that explores how climate change could threaten US security in the next 20 years, causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, and conflicts over water and other resources…. Read moreNational Intelligence Council sees climate threat
The Supreme Court on June 25 dealt a blow to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, cutting the $2.5 billion in punitive damages award for the worst oil spill in US history to $507 million. The court ruled 5-3… Read moreSupreme Court reduces damages in Exxon Valdez case
From the Global Forest Coalition, June 5: A Black Day for the Environment: False Solutions to Food Crisis will Escalate Starvation, Accelerate Climate Change and Devastate Biodiversity Rome — The Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide coalition of environmental NGOs and… Read moreEcologists blast Rome food summit
In the last six months, food riots in virtually every continent have made headlines, with angry protests reported in India, Mexico, Egypt, Indonesia, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mauritania, Cote d’Ivoire, Morocco, and the Philippines. Now impacts are being felt in… Read moreFood panic hits the First World
Gee, good thinking, science geeks. There’s too much junk in the atmosphere…so let’s throw even more junk into the atmosphere. Anything to avoid fat Americans having to give up their precious automobiles. From AP, April 24: Using chemicals to cut… Read moreGreenhouse techno-fix would kill ozone layer
Terrance Nelson, chief of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation in Manitoba, has sent a letter to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez asking for a $1 million donation or loan to hire lawyers to force two energy companies to share revenues… Read moreManitoba First Nation appeals to Chávez in pipeline fight
