Year: 2008

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Subject: MNN 6 Nations Surrounded-Cops Defend “Kingspan of Ireland” Illegal Development
From: “orakwa”
Date: Mon, July 14, 2008 9:50 am
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
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UREGNT! COPS SURROUND 6 NATIONS PEOPLE FOR TRYING TO SHUT DOWN ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF “KINGSPAN OF IRELAND” ON HAUDENOSAUNEE TERRITORY

MNN. July 14, 2008. 10:40 a.m. This morning the Brantford City police arrested a Six Nations Indigenous person at the construction site at Fenn Ridge in Brantford. At the same time Ontario Provincial Police are gathering on Highway 403, making way for cement trucks to enter the illegal construction site.More cruisers are arriving on the scene. They have laid spike belts on the road to keep Indigenous people on the outside. Ambulances and paddy wagons are arriving. There are men, women and children inside the site gates. All the workers have left.

This land is part of the Haudenosaunee Territory which was never
surrendered by the Indigenous owners. This Indigenous land is being
illegally used as collateral to raise money from the public on the Irish
and other stock exchanges and constitutes fraud. Kingspan manufactures insulation and is building a $4 billion plant on Haudenosaunee territory without consultation with or permission from the land owners.

Gene Murtagh, CEO, Kingspan Group PLC,
Dublin Road, Kingscourt Co.,
Cavan, Ireland;
+353 (0) 42 969 8000;
admn@kingspan.ie

The Six Nations people had agreed to let the company remove all their
equipment on this day. Instead the trucks are being used to run or people down. The Indigenous people refuse to move from their land. More are gathering. Help is needed. Bring cameras and camcorders. Witnesses are needed. Come prepared to stay and make sure you are self-sufficient.

Haudenosaunee Contacts:
1-518-358-3660;
1-519-865-9872;
1-519-732-6679;

Posted by MNN Mohawk Nation News
www.mohawknationnews.com

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About 20 Percent of EU Timber Illegal or Suspect: Report

Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:46pm EDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Nearly a fifth of wood imported into the European Union has been harvested illegally or comes from suspect sources, mostly in Russia, Indonesia and China, according to a report by environmental group WWF.

In all, 40 percent of wood-based products from southeast Asia, 30 percent from Latin America and over 36 percent of those from Africa originated from illegal or suspect sources, said the report on 2006 imports.

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Published on Monday, July 21, 2008 by Reuters

Destroying Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb”
by Deborah Zabarenko

WASHINGTON – The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.

Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conference linking wetlands and global warming.

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