Capital Blight News #106

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 31, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• It Is Time to Phase Out 9 Unnecessary Oil and Gas Tax Breaks - By staff, Center for American Progress, May 26, 2016
• Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together - By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism, May 25, 2016
• Interview: Shell Must be ‘Held Accountable to the Future Now’ Says Indigenous Delegate from the Gulf of Mexico - By Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, May 24, 2016; [related]: Gulf Coast Activist Crashes Shell Meeting to Decry Destruction of Her Home - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, May 24, 2016
• Oil profits, pipelines and the human cost of regulatory capture - By Bruce Campbell, Rabble.Ca, May 24, 2016
• Burned By Slow Government Response To A Polluter, Residents Mistrust Cleanup Efforts - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, May 22, 2016 

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Coalition’s great big climate hoax turns to outright denial - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, May 27, 2016; [related]: Australia scrubbed from UN climate change report after government intervention - By Michael Slezak, The Guardian, May 26, 2016; [and]: Australian Government censors UNESCO report on Great Barrier Reef #ReefGate - By Jeff Englart, Storify, May 27, 2016
• Koch Controversy at George Mason University: Student Abandons Economics Major - By Connor Gibson, DeSmog Blog, May 27, 2016
• Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy - By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, May 26, 2016
• CO Oil and Gas Industry Raises $6 Million To Fight Ballot Measures - By Dan Boyce, Inside Energy, May 25, 2016
• Exxon "Chose to Mislead": Granddaughter of Former Exxon Climate Scientist - By Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog, May 25, 2016; [related]: Granddaughter of Exxon Scientist Confronts CEO over Oil Giant’s Decision to Fund Climate Lies - Anna Kalinsky interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, May 26, 2016
• All Vision and No Strategy? Shell Says No Thanks to a Better Life with a Healthy Planet - By Juliet Phillips, DeSmog UK, May 24, 2016
• Brazil minister ousted after secret tape reveals plot to topple President Rousseff - By Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, May 23, 2016; [related]: Wall Street’s New Man in Brazil: The Forces Behind Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment - By José L. Flores, Counterpunch, May 26, 2016; [and]: The MST, Brazil's Biggest Social Movement, Promises to 'Intensify' Land Occupations in Fight Against Coup - By staff, Telesur, May 25, 2016; [and]: Brazil’s impeachment crisis is bad news for climate change - By André Guimarães and Stephan Schwartzman, Grist, May 27, 2016; [also]: This Confirms It was a Coup: Brazil Crisis Deepens as Evidence Mounts of Plot to Oust Dilma Rousseff - Maria Luisa Mendonça interviewed by Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, May 27, 2016
• Climate denial arguments fail a blind test  - By Dana Nuccitelli, The Guardian, May 23, 2016
• Houston Chronicle Business Columnist Calls for Exxon Climate Denial Investigation, Slams Paxton, Cites DeSmog Research - By Brendan DeMelle, DeSmog Blog, May 23, 2016
• Let's give up the climate change charade: Exxon won't change its stripes - By Bill McKibben, The Guardian, May 20, 2016; [related]: Bill McKibben on Exxon, the Power of Divestment, and Being Targeted by Shadowy Right-Wing Group - Bill McKibben interviewed by Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now, May 26, 2016
• Momentum Builds in California to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Climate Science Misinformation - By Jason Barbose, Union of Concerned Scientists, May 18, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• Cove Point Defender Convicted of Making False Statement to Police - By Anne Meador, DCMedia Group, May 27, 2016
• In Honduras, USAID Was in Bed with Berta Cáceres’ Accused Killers - By Gloria Jimenez, Counterpunch, May 27, 2016; [related]: Obama Urged to Stop Funding Honduran Military as Questions Grow over US Role in Berta Cáceres’ Death - Annie Bird interviewed by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, May 24, 2016

Greenwashers:

• Response from Lee Hales, Prestige Investment Group Limited: “Please remove the information you have posted about on your website” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, May 26, 2016
• Fracked Gas Isn’t Green or Clean - By Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch, May 25, 2016
• Response from Nick Meade, ex-director of D&P Sites part of the Capital Alternatives network: “Libellous and defamatory comments” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, May 25, 2016
• WWF partners with logging company destroying "Pygmy” land - By staff, Survival International, May 25, 2016
• BP Pursues Egyptian Oil Deals While Sponsoring Blockbuster Egypt Exhibition at British Museum - By Georgie Johnson, Greenpeace Energydesk, May 24, 2016; [realted]: BP’s “Sunken Cities” Exhibition is “Beyond Parody” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, May 23, 2016
• Indigenous Environmental Network: REDD “must be immediately canceled” - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, May 24, 2016
• Maryland, Maryland, Quite Contrary-land - By staff, Energy Justice Network, May 23, 2016
• WATCH: ‘Threatened Forests’ The Hidden Truth Behind EU ‘Green Energy’ - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, May 23, 2016
• Can REDD save the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo? - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, May 20, 2016
• Illegal logging, palm oil and politics in Central Kalimantan - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, May 20, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• Shell spills again: Pipeline leaks 20,000 gallons of oil in northern California - By Ryan Schleeter, Greenpeace, May 26, 2016
• A hint of hell: fires in Canada and PUC pipeline dishonesty - By Winona LaDuke, Greenpeace, May 22, 2016
• Fukushima Flunks Decontamination - By Robert Hunziker, Counterpunch, May 20, 2016

Other News:

• Are We Witnessing the Beginning of the End of Globalization? - By Murray Dobbin, Counterpunch, May 27, 2016
• The Trouble with Fracking Fiction - By Mark Hand, Counterpunch, May 27, 2016
• Exim Bank of India - stop support for the Rampal Coal Power plant! - By Johan Frijns, The Ecologist, May 26, 2016
• Noam Chomsky Discusses the Hypocrisies of Capitalism in the Financial Capital of the World - By Alexandra Rosenmann, Alternet, May 20, 2016 

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