by Nelson Bailey | Dec 2, 2016 | Climate Change, Endangered Species, Politics of energy
Ryan Grenoble | The Huffington Post If you stumbled across an alarming chart about sea ice on Twitter last month and doomsday scenarios immediately leaped into your head, you’re not alone. What the graph illustrates is true: There’s substantially less sea ice...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 26, 2016 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters will not follow a government directive to leave the federal land where hundreds have camped for months, organizers said on Saturday, despite state officials encouraging them to do so. US news | The Guardian Protesters block Route...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Endangered Species, Politics of energy
The Huffington Post When it comes to climate change iconography, there’s perhaps no image more recognizable than that of a lone polar bear marooned on a melting sheet of ice. But as the impacts of a continually warming Earth are felt by more species, new emblematic...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 20, 2016 | Natural Gas, Politics of energy
The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline has landed its first potential natural gas customer outside of Tidewater — the largest private employer in Buckingham County — on the eve of a pivotal vote by county planners on a proposed compressor station that has sparked...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
BY DEVIN HENRY – 11/15/16 12:05 PM EST Regulators have finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaks at natural gas drilling sites on federal land. The rule, released Tuesday by the Interior Department, updates 30-year-old regulations on methane venting,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 11, 2016 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Pastor Paul Wilson Chad Oba The pastor of two Baptist churches near a proposed natural gas fired 53,515 horsepower compressor station — part of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project — is decrying the alleged threat of arrest of seven women...