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MAINE COMPASS: Is the east-west highway a plan to exploit Maine for energy triad?
Chris Buchanan, published 3-12-12 in the Morning Sentinel
Canada is developing natural gas fracking fields in Quebec and New Brunswick, and a liquid petroleum gas tank is proposed for Searsport.
We are concerned about whether the proposed east-west highway might be destined to become a supercorridor to transport LPG in trucks to Canada and natural gas by pipeline along the highway to the Maritime provinces for [...]
Continue reading Connections Found between East-West Highway, Canadian Fracking Fields, and Searsport LPG Tank
Update 3-1-12: This Canadian article notes concerns from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the East-West highway, and border security. It states that the border station at Coburn Gore would need to be rebuilt. Just more taxpayer dollars funding this private project. http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/68558-maine-reviews-highway-proposal
Rosebud Sioux Nation President Rodney Bordeaux
US and Canadian Indigenous Peoples United To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Monday, December 5, 2011
Washington DC-A delegation of US Tribal leaders gathered together in Washington DC, during the third annual White House Tribal Leaders Summit to call on President Obama to reject a presidential permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The leaders presented President Obama with the “Mother Earth Accord” that outlines unique US Tribal and First Nations concerns over [...]
Continue reading US First Nations Present Obama with Mother Earth Accord Opposing XL Pipeline
December 8th, 2011 | Tags: 2030 water resources group, corporate accountability international, international finance corporation, water commodification, water privatization, world bank, world economic forum | Category: Community Rights, Features, International, Nestlé, News, Report, Resources | Chris Buchanan, DW4L, December 8, 2011
In 2007, the World Economic Forum Water Initiative was created to “raise awareness among governments, businesses, and the expert community about the challenge of managing future water needs, and on piloting public-private-expert platforms for reform.” http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/MM/Water_Resources_Group_Phase2_4pager.pdf
Out of this initiative came the 2030 Water Resources Group. Formed in 2008, the WRG was sponsored by the International Finance Corporation, a part of the World Bank Group, which “provides investments and advisory services to [...]
Continue reading World Bank Sponsors ‘Water Resources Group’ aiming to Privatize Water Services in Less Developed Countries
President Morales cancels plans to build highway through a nature reserve after sustained protest from Amazon Indians.
from Al Jazeera, October 22, 2011.
Protesters camp out in front of the government palace to protest against the construction of the highway [Reuters]
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, has announced that he is scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia’s jungle lowlands, bowing to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.
Morales did [...]
Continue reading Bolivia Scraps Controversial Highway Plan: Rights of Nature upheld!
October 21st, 2011 | Category: Canada, International, News | Shale gas opponents face intimidation
by One Straw Revolution, 10/10/2011
Stephanie Merrill and the NB Media Co-op is reporting that the RCMP and private security firms are placing anti-fracking groups and members under close surveillance and laying criminal complaints against them, while private security firms are harassing ant-fracking protesters.
Shale gas protesters around the province are learning what happens when they speak out publicly against something they feel strongly about. They are being flagged, tagged and targeted – by industry, [...]
Continue reading New Brunswick: Police and Private Harassment of Anti-Frackers
We are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated forms. All forms of exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction to Mother Earth.
Today nature is treated as property under the law. Nature has no standing and therefore, cannot be represented directly in a court of law. Our goal is for nature to have rights just like humans and even corporations have. We want humans and corporations to value nature as a living being in [...]
Continue reading Action Alert: Join a Global Letter Campaign for Rights Of Mother Earth
July 12th, 2011 | Category: Canada, International, News | 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 hydro-fracking for shale gas is being carried out. In addition, studies show that the methane released through fracking makes this unconventional extraction of natural gas a [...]
Continue reading Green Party NB Supports Opposition to Shale Gas
June 27th, 2011 | Category: Canada, International, Legal, News | Ottawa – As the first anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s historic recognition of the human right to water and sanitation draws near, the Council of Canadians is releasing a new report today by chairperson Maude Barlow, titled Our Right to Water: A People’s Guide to Implementing the United Nations’ Recognition of the Right to Water and Sanitation. The report is available here.
The report finds that Canada is legally bound to respect the UN vote, and therefore to address [...]
Continue reading Canada legally required to take action on human right to water: Report
By Janet M Eaton, Sierra Club Canada, Trade and Environment Campaigner, May 10th, 2011 A Vancouver Sun May 9th article entitled “Is ‘harmonizing’ code for cutting standards?” cites the Canadian government, industry representatives and consumer group reaction to a new Canada-US Regulatory Cooperation Council. [1] [...]
Continue reading Lest we Forget – The new Can-US Regulatory Co-operation Council and Perimeter Security Accord is the next generation of NACC and the SPP.
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