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EcoUnionist News #90
Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/07/2016 - 15:04
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 9, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Naomi Klein: Climate Change "Not Just About Things Getting Hotter" - By Michael Winship, Truthout, February 4, 2016
- Trying to exploit rural anger - Jessica Campbell interviewed by Wael Elasady, Socialist Worker, February 3, 2016
- Five Stories To Watch in the Arch Coal Bankruptcy: Big executive bonuses; shafting workers and the environment; and more - By Clark Williams-Derry, Sightline Daily, February 2, 2016
- 300 Union Plumbers Spent The Weekend Installing Water Filters For Flint Residents For Free - By Judd Legum, Think Progress, February 1, 2016
- GM, union workers take 56,700 water bottles to Flint - By Megan Little, WANE TV, January 29, 2016
- To Charles Koch, Universities Are Propaganda Machines - By Connor Gibson, Huffington Post, January 27, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Break Free 2016 - May 2016 |
- Flush the TPP - Spring 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15
The Thin Green Line:
- The struggle for responsible investment continues: UBC committee votes against divestment - By Jen Halsall, Rabble.Ca, February 4, 2016
- Stand with the #Heathrow 13 - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 3, 2016
- In Washington, the 'necessity defense' on trial alongside activists - By Cally Carswell, High Country News, February 2, 2016
Just Transition:
- Democratic Energy and Climate Change - By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience, February 4, 2016
- New Bill Would Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines And Jump Start The Appalachian Economy - By Katie Valentine, Think Progress, February 4, 2016
- Solar Decision Will Burn Low-Income Californians - By Tom Dalzell, Beyond Chron, February 4, 2016
- Hal Rogers files bill to release $1 billion in AML funds for economic development in coal communities - By Ivy Brashear, Renew Appalachia, February 3, 2016
- Unions Part of London Campaign to Bring ‘Energy for People, Not for Profit’ - By Archie Davies, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, February 3, 2016
- UK Government Bails Out North Sea; Gives “Nothing to Solar” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 1, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- Bold Nebraska Delivers Petition Urging Legislature to Stand With Family Farmers, Vote NO on Corporate Pig Bill LB 176 - By Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, February 4, 2016
- Dairy Crisis: Enough evaluations, it’s high time for the Commission to act - By Staff, La Via Campesina, February 3, 2016
- La Via Campesina, Building an International Movement for Food and Seed Sovereignty - By Simone Adler, La Via Campesina, February 3, 2016
- National Farmers Union to be part of climate change solutions in Manitoba - By Staff, La Via Campesina, February 2, 2016
- Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds - By Shepherd Bliss, CounterPunch, February 1, 2016
- Worst Trade Union of the Year Award: a Small Farm Future Special - By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future, January 30, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Canada must act now to save its steel-making industry - By Paul Weinberg, Rabble.Ca, February 5, 2016
- How the Bundy Gang Won - By George Wuerthner, CounterPunch, February 5, 2016
- Three missing after South African gold mine collapses, trapping 87 - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 5, 2016
- CP Rail propane cars collide near Edmonton in 3rd 'remote control' accident - By Dave Seglins, CBC, February 4, 2016
- Hazelwood owner charged over 45-day coal mine fire - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, February 4, 2016
- Heather White and the Human Costs of Electronics - By Cecilia Jamasmie, CounterPunch, February 4, 2016
- Glazer: Rework BART union contracts before $3 billion bond vote - By Sam Richards, Contra Costa Times, February 3, 2016
- Saeed Baloch, Advocator for Fishermen’s Rights, Arrested in Pakistan - By Real World Radio, La Via Campesina, February 3, 2016
- What’s Happened With The Oregon Occupation Since You Stopped Paying Attention - By Laurel Raymond, Think Progress, February 3, 2016
- Report: Even After 2013 Texas Fertilizer Explosion, Hundreds of Communities Still at Risk - By Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times, February 2, 2016
- Global Sweatshops, Solidarity and the Bangladesh Breakthrough - By Eric Dirnbach, Public Seminar, January 28, 2016
- People Of Color & Poor More Likely To Live Near Chemical Hazard - By Amanda Starbuck, Center for Effective Government,
January 21, 2016
Greenwashers:
- How safeguards fail poor farmers in the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena REDD project in Madagascar - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, February 5, 2016
- REDD is dead. What’s next? - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, February 4, 2016
- Behind the fake ban, SNP is fracking bosses’ good friend - By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), February 2, 2016
- The Inside Story of How a University Professor Quietly Collaborated With Monsanto - By Carey Gillam, AlterNet, January 30, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- How Racism And Anti-Tax Fervor Laid The Groundwork For Flint’s Water Crisis - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, February 3, 2016
- Navajo Water Supply More Poisoned Than Flint’s For Decades - By M. David, Mint News Press, February 3, 2016
- Privatization on Steroids: Emergency Manager Who Switched Flint Water Resigns from Detroit Schools - Thomas Stephens and Tawanna Simpson interviewed by Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now, February 3, 2016
- Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed as SoCalGas Faces Criminal Charges Over Porter Ranch Gas Leak - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, February 3, 2016
- Analysis: California's New Gas-storage Rules Weaker Than Petroleum Industry's Own Suggested Practices - By Patrick Sullivan, Center for Biological Diversity, February 2, 2016
- Flint and beyond. Build a broad direct action movement against the 1% - By Richard Mellor, Facts For Working People, February 2, 2016
- We'll hold Snyder accountable - By anonymous, Socialist Worker, February 2, 2016
- The Challenger Disaster: What Happens When Politics Overrides Science - By Jeremy Bloom, Clean Technica, January 31, 2016
- With Gov. Snyder Failing to Fix the Problem, Working People Step Up in Flint Water Crisis - By Kenneth Quinnell, AFL-CIO Now, January 27, 2016
- Flint water crisis is market driven. Jail Governor Snyder - By Richard Mellor, Facts For Working People, January 26, 2016
- Piping as poison: the Flint water crisis and America’s toxic infrastructure - By Chris Sellers, The Conversation, January 25, 2016
Carbon Bubble:
- Drillers shut down dozens of rigs last week, biggest pull-back since April 2015 - By Joshua Cain, FuelFix, February 5, 2016
- ConocoPhillips CEO: Oil downturn could stretch into 2017 - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 4, 2016
- Occidental posts losses of more than $5 billion - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, February 4, 2016
- Shell prepares to remake itself into gas giant after BG Group deal - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 4, 2016
- Statoil reports larger 4th quarter loss after oil price drop - By Associated Press, FuelFix, February 4, 2016
- Suncor cuts spending by 10% after posting $2bn loss on writedowns - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 4, 2016
- China 'war on coal' to drive labour unrest - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 3, 2016
- Mayor wants to rid Copenhagen of ‘totally wrong’ investments in coal, oil and gas - By Melanie Mattauch, Fossil Free, February 3, 2016
- Is India starting to waver on coal? - By Bob Burton, EndCoal, February 3, 2016
- NOV records $1.5 billion net loss for the fourth quarter - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, February 3, 2016
- Weatherford to cut 6,000 jobs in first half of 2016 - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 3, 2016
- BP CEO: oil outlook ‘lower for longer, but not lower forever’ - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 2, 2016
- BP Posts Worst Financial Results For 20 Years - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 2, 2016
- Coal bosses don’t care about West Virginians - By Booth Goodwin, Charleston Gazette-Mail, February 2, 2016
- Mining Collapse Echoes Subprime Mortgage Crisis - By Robert Milbourne and Anthony R.G. Nolan, Breaking Energy, February 2, 2016
- Oil majors prepare for profit bloodbath - By Ed King, Climate Change News, February 2, 2016
- Songa Offshore cuts 200 onshore jobs - By Staff, Oil Voice, February 2, 2016
- “State of transition” Oil oversupply, shale bankruptcies, gas leaks, and a whiff of securities fraud - By Jeremy Leggett, REnew Economy, February 2, 2016
- 2-Miner NWR plans to lay off around 7,000 staff by 2018 - By Jason Hovet and Robert Muller, Reuters, February 2, 2016
- Banks “finally found religion” at $30 oil, lawyers see wave of bankruptcies - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, February 1, 2016
- Energy companies detail hundreds more layoffs - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, February 1, 2016
- Federal Coal Sales Moratorium Shakes Industry Stronghold - By Mead Gruver and Matthew Brown, Associated Press, February 1, 2016
- Hottest Year Ever Recorded + Collapsing Oil Prices = Broken Fossil Fuel Economy - By Gary Wockner and Terry Odendahl, EcoWatch, February 1, 2016
- North Dakota governor orders cuts due to low oil prices - By Associated Press, FuelFix, February 1, 2016
- Once Unstoppable, Tar Sands Now Battered from All Sides - By Ed Struzik, Yale Environment 360, February 1, 2016
- Polarcus announces further cost reductions and organizational changes, 26% workforce reduction - By Staff, Oil Voice, February 1, 2016
- US oil & gas sector: things to get worse before they get better - By Matt Smith, FuelFix, February 1, 2016
- What you need to know about the oil price war - By Eric Ruder, Socialist Worker, February 1, 2016
- Wyoming sees oil and gas jobs drop by 5,400 in 2015 - By Associated Press, FuelFix, February 1, 2016
- How oil and gas companies are dealing with low prices - By Valeriya Vitkova, The Conversation, January 27, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- Mark Ruffalo: Flint isn’t an anomaly. We’re heading toward a national water crisis - By Mark Ruffalo, Washington Post, February 5, 2016
- ‘Jaw-dropping’ CSIRO job cuts to ‘gut’ climate science unit - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, February 4, 2016
- Koch-Fueled Playbook Against West Virginia Working Families Exposed - By PR Watch Editors, Truthout, February 3, 2016
- Science Museum must get out of bed with anti-science Big Fossil funders - By Drew Pearce, The Ecologist, February 2, 2016
- Storm Over Rangelands: Boise Land Seizure Conference and the Spectacle of Lawlessness at Malheur - By Katie Fite, CounterPunch, February 3, 2016
- Could a Legal Case Save Humanity From Climate Disaster? Exxon Could Face a Big Comeuppance - By Reynard Loki, Alternet, February 2, 2016
Other News:
- Mining among unhappiest industries to work in - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 5, 2016
- Never mind today's signing charade: TPP is heading for the rocks - By Sam Cossar-Gilbert, The Ecologist, February 4, 2016
- Jean Ross of National Nurses United Hits Home Run for Bernie Sanders At ‘Climate Emergency Caucus’ - By Emerson Urry, Enviro News TV, February 1, 2016
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