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Eco Unionist News #5
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 5, 2014
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Trade unionists must join the climate fight! - Climate and Capitalism, December 1, 2014
- Unions urge rapid and just transition to save climate - By the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Climate and Capitalism, December 2, 2014
Carbon Bubble News:
- At current prices Bakken and Permian Basin are in the red - Sober Look, November 29, 2014
- Banks Face “Dire Scenario” Over Fracking Finance - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, December 2, 2014
- Founding Father of Fracking Boom Is Crying the Blues - By Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch, December 2, 2014
- Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking - By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, December 2, 2014
- The Price Of Oil Exposes The True State Of The Economy - By Raúl Ilargi Meijer, The Automatic Earth, November 27, 2014
Other News of Interest:
- Big News Outlets Are Fighting A Gag Order To Access An Indicted Coal Baron’s Court Records - Be Emily Atkin, Think Progress, December 1, 2014
- Canada’s Green Energy Sector Now Employs More People Than Its Tar Sands - By Jeff Spross, Think Progress, December 2, 2014
- World Rainforest Movement call to action: No to REDD, extractivism, and capitalism - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, December 1, 2014
For more ecological news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC
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