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EcoUnionist News #80
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 8, 2015
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Secret trade talks could weaken climate targets set in Paris, warn campaigners - By Phillip Inman, The Guardian, December 3, 2015
- Global warming, Canada's unions and the new, climate change-denial government in Ottawa - By Roger Annis, Rabble.Ca, November 30, 2015
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
- Jobs, Justice, Climate: Rally to Defend New England's Future! - December 12, 2015
- People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
- Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15
Bread and Roses:
- Driscoll Berry Boycott - By Felix Chrome, The Cooper Point Journal, November 24, 2015
- Cuba's ecological farming revolution shows a different path - By Stuart Munckton, Green-Left Weekly, November 23, 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Azerbaijan: 7 bodies found after oil rig fire, 23 missing - Associated Press Wire, FuelFix, December 7, 2015
- Azerbaijan: 29 still missing from burning oil platform - Associated Press Wire, FuelFix, December 6, 2015
- Azerbaijan: 1 dead, 30 missing, 33 saved after platformfire - Associated Press Wire, FuelFix, December 5, 2015
- Workers escape serious injury after plant explosion - By Sarah Matott, Natural Gas Watch, December 5, 2015
- Breaking News: 2 Major Incidents Underway as Platform Collapses and another Catches Fire Offshore Azerbaijan - By Staff, Oil and Gas People, December 4, 2015
- IBU members win settlement but fight continues at Saltchuk - By Staff, The Dispatcher, December 3, 2015
- Ramsey Gas Plant in West Texas Shut In Following Fire - By Joe Fisher, Natural Gas Intel, December 3, 2015
- 2 slightly hurt in natural gas plant fire in West Texas - Associated Press Wire, FuelFix, December 3, 2015
- Miners stop work due to concerns regarding dust exposure - By Staff, Daily Mercury, December 2, 2015
- Video shows massive fireball engulfing hazmat workers at derailment site - By Staff, CBC, December 2, 2015
- Asarco miners rally for better pay, safer work conditions - By Sonu Wasu, Tucson News Now, December 1, 2015
- Asarco's unions protest company's tactics - By David Wichner, Arizona Daily Star, December 1, 2015
- Clean Air Queensland gravely concerned, but not surprised about Black Lung reports - By Staff, Lock the Gate Alliance, December 1, 2015
- Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up - By Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, December 1, 2015
- Asarco to implement contract with union Tuesday: United Steelworkers - By Bob Matyi, Platts, November 30, 2015
- OSHA cites Seaford Ice plant after workers lose limbs - By Scott Goss, Delaware News Journal, November 30, 2015
- Worker burned at Delaware City refinery - By Estebam Parra, Delaware News Journal, November 30, 2015
- Union Workers to Rally at Asarco Headquarters - By United Steelworkers, PR Newswire, November 30, 2015
- The Weipa strike: when 75 workers took on a mining giant - By Carl Jackson, Red Flag, November 27, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Glencore axes jobs, coal output at Australia’s mine as price collapses - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, December 7, 2015
- More than 400 jobs to go at South32 manganese mine in South Africa - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, December 7, 2015
- Crude-Oil Exports Emerge as Wild Card in End-of-Year Frenzy - By Ben Geman, National Journal, December 3, 2015
- In Pennsylvania, a Steel Mill and Its Workers at a Crossroads - By Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, December 3, 2015
- Karr Ingham: Oil crash “deepest and longest” in history of Texas Petro Index - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, December 3, 2015
- ‘Coal is about the only thing Central Appalachia has’ - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette, December 2, 2015
- Locked Out Steelworkers Resist Company Wish List - By Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes, December 1, 2015
- Two companies announce 245 layoffs in the Houston area - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, November 30, 2015
- Oil Jobs Lost: 250.000 And Counting, Texas Likely To See Massive Layoffs Soon - By Charles Kennedy, OilPrice.Com, November 23, 2015
Just Transition:
- Massachusetts Clean Energy Job Market Sees Double-Digit Growth - By Staff, Solar Industry, December 1, 2015
The Thin Green Line:
- Community, environmental, labor, and academic groups prompt local Air District to move on community proposal for refinery emission caps - By Staff, The Yodeler, December 1, 2015
- Community groups dismiss Oakland coal exports case while working with City to exclude coal from project - By Earth Justice, The Yodeler, December 1, 20155
- Company Behind Proposed Oakland Coal Terminal Is Growing Rapidly - By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express, December 1, 2015
Other News:
- The Modern Day Company Town - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, December 5, 2015
- Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror - Interview by C.J. Polychroniou, TruthOut, December 3, 2015
- Resistance to the Nicaraguan Canal: An Interview with López, Environmental Lawyer [English translation] - By Toni Martínez, Earth First! (originally posted in Spanish at La Marea), December 3, 2015
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