Capital Blight News #120

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 7, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• For-Profit Pipeline Company Claims "Public Benefit" in Seizing Private Lands in Pennsylvania - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2016
• If the U.S. is talking about abandoning NAFTA, then maybe we should too - By Gordon Laxer, Rabble.Ca, August 31, 2016
• Study assesses climate change vulnerability in urban America - By Milken Institute School of Public Health, Eureka Alert!, August 31, 2016
• The Billion Dollar Ultimatum - By Chris Hamby, BuzzFeed, August 30, 2016
• Major Insurers to G20 Nations: Stop Wasting Time, Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020 - By Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, August 30, 2016; [related]: Major Insurers With $1.2 Trillion In Assets Urge G20 Leaders To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, August 30, 2016 | Insurance funds worth $1.2tn tell G20 to stop funding fossil fuels by 2020 - By Karl Mathiesen, Climate Change News, August 28, 2016
• Here’s Why Americans Are Mad as Hell at Wall Street and Washington - By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade, August 12, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Fossil fuel subsidies are “the world’s dumbest policy” – so why won’t G20 leaders end them? - By Alex Doukas, Oil Change International, September 5, 2016
• The Dense web of financial interests - By Mike Spille, The Cost of the Pipeline, September 3, 2016
• Public Relations Firm Claims to Have Ghost Written Thousands of Op-Eds in Major U.S. Newspapers - By David Swanson, CounterPunch, September 2, 2016
• Climate Change Authority cops out – just when we need it most - By Christine Milne, REnew Economy, September 1, 2016
• Network Map of the Koch-Funded Fueling U.S. Forward Campaign - By Brendan DeMelle, Koch vs Clean, September 1, 2016
• Railroad Commission needs transformation, not reform - By Priscilla Villa, Houston Chronicle, September 1, 2016
• When Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts Thanked 9/11 Truthers and New World Order Conspiracists For Their Science Guidance - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, September 1, 2016
• Americans Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever Before, Analysis Finds - By Graham Readfearn, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2016
• Canadian Taxpayers Fork Out $3.3 Billion Every Year to Super Profitable Oil Companies - By Kevin Grandia, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2016
• Dutch Wind Power Proponents Face Opposition -  By John J. Berger, Renewable Energy World, August 31, 2016
• Lamar Smith to hold hearing over Exxon climate fight - By James Osborne, FuelFix, August 31, 2016
• Using Trump Playbook, Chamber Of Commerce Invents Absurd Fossil Fuel Claims - By Mary Ellen Kustin, Think Progress, August 31, 2016
• Colorado Senator Says Candidates Who Oppose Fossil Fuels ‘Unfit’ For Office - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, August 29, 2016

Green is the New Red:

• "We shall not rest until we’ve freed all our political prisoners", affirms Via Campesina - By Iris Pacheco, La Via Campesina, August 30, 2016
• Texas Ranch Owner Battles TransCanada to Restore Her Pipeline-Scarred Land - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, August 28, 2016

Greenwashers:

• Landscapes of Dispossession: the National Park Service at 100 Years - By Nick Alexandrov, CounterPunch, September 3, 2016
• National Energy Board hearings into Energy East pipeline suspended - By Brent Patterson, Rabble.Ca, August 31, 2016
• [Video]: Trailer for COP21 Documentary ‘Not Without Us’ - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, August 31, 2016
• Conservation Efforts Are Still Violating Indigenous Rights - By Andrew E. Miller, Amazon Watch, August 30, 2016
• Governor Ayade’s contradictions on REDD in Cross River State, Nigeria - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, August 30, 2016
• India: The Parliament violates forest people’s rights and promotes further plantations - By staff, World Rainforest Movement, August 30, 2016
• Wildlife conservationists need to break out of their Stockholm syndrome - By Margi Prideaux, Open Democracy, August 29, 2016
• Delta tunnels fail financially - By Alex Breitler, Stockton Record, August 24, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• Gulf Oil Leases Spark Outcry But Little Revenue - Anne Rolfes interviewed by Helen Palmer, Living on Earth, September 2, 2016
• Hurricane Katrina, Brought to You by Big Oil - By Anne Rolfes, Bridge the Gulf, September 2, 2016
• Public Cost of Fukushima Cleanup Tops $40 Billion and Is Expected to Climb - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, August 29, 2016

Other News:

• Why BART’s future hinges on $3.5 billion bond - By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, September 2, 2016
• G20 will blow the Paris climate targets - By Karl Mathiesen, Climate Change News, September 1, 2016
• Book review: How did we get into this mess? - By Commissaress, Weekly Worker, September 1, 2016
• Air Pollution From Coal Single Largest Health Impact In China - By Joshua S Hill , Clean Technica, August 30, 2016
• Colorado Anti-Fracking Activists Fall Short in Ballot Efforts - By Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, August 29, 2016 [related]: After Colorado Oil & Gas Initiatives Fail, What’s Next? - By Leigh Paterson and Amber Rivera, Inside Enregy, September 1, 2016 | Another Side to the Story: A Look at Colorado’s Ballot Fight - By Matt Maiorana, Oil Change International, August 30, 2016 | Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to fracking critics: I hear you - By John Frank, Denver Post, August 30, 2016 | Anti-fracking activists hit a roadblock in Colorado - By Ben Adler, Grist, August 29, 2016 | Colorado Anti-Fracking Initiatives Fail to Make November Ballot - By Yes for Health and Safety Over Fracking, EcoWatch, August 29, 2016 | Colorado anti-fracking measures fail to make ballot; possible forgery alleged - By Mark K. Matthews, Denver Post, August 29, 2016 | Colorado drillers dodge $10 billion-a-year threat to output - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, August 29, 2016 | Colorado Oil & Gas Initiatives Fail Signature Count For November Ballot - By Leigh Paterson, Inside Energy, August 29, 2016 | Colorado Voters Won’t Get To Decide On New Fracking Rules - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, August 29, 2016 | In Blow to Colorado Residents, Anti-Fracking Measures Fail to Make Ballot - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, August 29, 2016

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