USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Australian rivers ‘face disaster’
By Nick Bryant BBC News, Sydney
Australia is facing is worst drought in a century
Parts of Australia’s vital Murray-Darling river basin will be beyond the point of recovery unless they receive water by October.
That is the verdict of an expert panel whose leaked report warns of dire consequences like the loss of wetlands, vegetation and some fish species.
The Green party has hit out at the government for deferring consideration of the report until November.
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June 17, 2008 2:48 PM
CONTACT: American Rivers
Michael Garrity, 206-852-5583 (cell)
New Salmon Plan Fails to Address Effects of Dams, Global Warming
American Rivers Urges Judge Redden to Give New Administration a Chance to Get it Right
WASHINGTON, DC – June 17 – Today a coalition of environmental and fishing organizations, including American Rivers, sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over the 2008 Biological Opinion, or Salmon Plan, on the Columbia and Snake river dams. The new Salmon Plan is the third attempt by NMFS in eight years to submit a plan that passes legal muster.
Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/17/9699/
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Published on Monday, June 16, 2008 by The Los Angeles Times
Human Cost of Brazil’s Biofuels Boom by Patrick J. McDonnell
BOCAINA, BRAZIL – For as far as the eye can see, stalks of sugar cane march across the hillsides here like giant praying mantises. This is ground zero for ethanol production in Brazil — “the Saudi Arabia of biofuels,” as some have already labeled this vast South American country.
But even as Brazil’s booming economy is powered by fuel processed from the cane, labor officials are confronting what some call the country’s dirty little ethanol secret: the mostly primitive conditions endured by the multitudes of workers who cut the cane.