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from StopNestleWaters.org, article by TC Jim Olson is the environmental attorney who represented the Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation in their six-year battle against a damaging Nestle Waters of North America water extraction operation. This story has more twists and turns than a mountain road, but there’s a reason Nestle would like to pretend this […] Posted on Friday, 1 of July , 2011 at 2:31 pm TRENTON, NJ—In an unprecedented and pioneering move, New Jersey’s state legislature became the first in the nation to pass a bill to enforce a statewide ban on a controversial gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”. The bill passed the Senate 32-1 […] From the New Brunswick Harbinger, July 11, 2011 The Green Party of New Brunswick supports the ongoing efforts of citizens throughout New Brunswick to protect their communities, their drinking water and their air quality from the hazards of shale gas development. Evidence is continually mounting of deteriorating quality of life and health in regions where […] By SCOTT E. KINNEY skinney@fosters.com Sunday, July 10, 2011 NOTTINGHAM — For years commuters along Route 4 between Barrington and Nottingham have driven by a rather innocuous and incomplete building along the roadside. The building is the physical property of USA Springs, a water bottling company nearly 10 years, and counting, in the making. The […] Watch the video of Amy Goodman interviwing Vandana Shive about the Rights of Mother Earth, and other related topics. This is a broadcast from Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/22/earth_day_special_vandana_shiva_and by EZRA WINTON on JUNE 24, 2011 …the documentary focuses on…Maude Barlow, an activist who has dedicated most of her life to fighting for the access, preservation and protection of water. The doc has recently been released on DVD and should be immediately picked up by anyone interested in resource issues, the corporatization of the […] By IAN URBINA Published: June 25, 2011 Natural gas companies have been placing enormous bets on the wells they are drilling, saying they will deliver big profits and provide a vast new source of energy for the United States. But the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep […] |