Monthly archive December, 2009

Canadian mining firms face abuse allegations

Canadian mining companies are facing allegations of abuse and assault on local citizens in dozens of developing nations…In Ottawa…a House of Commons committee…will continue debating a Liberal private member’s bill designed to put controls on …
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Climate Rage

By Naomi Klein – November 11th, 2009

One last chance to save the world—for months, that’s how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being hyped. Officials …
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Indigenous Peoples suffer from both climate change and proposed solutions

‘Moves to stop global warming are devastating tribal people’, says new report
Measures to stop global warming risk being as harmful to tribal peoples as climate change itself, according to a new report from Survival …
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Uranium no solution to climate change

Nuclear energy’s impact on emissions ‘too little, too late’
See http://www.greenbang.com/nuclear-energys-impact-on-emissions-too-little-too-late_12671.html.

New UK nuclear stations unlikely to be on time
A Newsnight investigation suggests that UK government plans to build a new generation of …
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