Twelve minute video on the dangers of uranium mining and radiation exposure and the particular hazards posed by BHP Billiton’s planned expansion of uranium mining in South Australia. A decision on expansion is to be …
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Why BHP Billiton must never expand Olympic Dam uranium mine
Tar sands news
Why a First Nations student from British Columbia is taking on a controversial trans-Canadian pipeline project—through song
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/what-a-10-year-old-did-for-the-tar-sands?fb_ref=likebutton&fb_source=home_oneline
Civil Disobedience against the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring Alberta Tar Sands “dirty” oil from …
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Australia’s boomtown curse
An Al Jazeera report on the costs in Australia’s mining boom
See http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/08/20118284435996818.html.…
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Nuclear news
Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to British Columbia
“There have been massive radiation spikes in Canada because of Fukushima,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. “The authorities don’t …
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London 2012: Olympic gold medals glitter in public for the first time
The weighty discs that will adorn the exultant necks of thousands of athletes in a year’s time were allowed to glitter in public for the first time. The ore for the medals comes from London …
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Nuclear news
Fukushima is Worse than Chernobyl – on Global Contamination http://japanfocus.org/-Chris-Busby/3563
Radioactive tea from Japan detained in France http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/18/52031497.html
Radioactive contamination of beef in Japan worsens http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radiation-health-whats-new/2011/7/22/radioactive-contamination-of-beef-in-japan-worsens.html
Suicide Plague: Japan swept by Fukushima depression 4 …
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BP exorcised from Tate Modern
Monday saw extraordinary scenes as we joined Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthaluyah to exorcise the beast that is BP from the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. Filling the huge space inside the former power …
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Ceremonial walk protests Rio Tinto mine in Michigan
Barbed wire fences and the sweltering heat failed to hold them back Sunday afternoon. Mine opponents and the environmentally conscious covered the Yellow Dog Plains in a peaceful demonstration, a message for Rio Tinto subsidairy …
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How Green is your Internet?
Two minute video showing the climate impact of internet use.
See http://pointblankcreative.ca/blog/?p=1951 – then disconnect from the internet and turn off your computer!…
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Shining a light on Europe’s role in the Tar Sands
UK Tar Sands Network and friends have been in Brussels for the Canada-EU trade talks. The tar sands may be being extracted in Canada, but the debate over the industry’s future is raging in Europe …
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Did Rio Tinto start a war in Bougainville?
London Calling asks: did Rio Tinto fund war on Bougainville?
Whatever Michael Somare might have done in office (or out of it) over the past 22 years, as the first prime minister of Papua New …
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