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First major case of carbon credit crime British police arrests nine on suspicion of carbon credit trading fraud.
38 million British pounds was the presumed gain in a carbon credit scam investigated by British police.
130 officers raided 27 business and residential premises in Greater London and Kent, and arrested nine people suspected of being involved in the conspiracy, Financial Times reports. Continue reading
Take Action Oct 12-16: Global Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples
On May 31, the 4th Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples Abya Yala (”America”) called for a Global Mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth and the Peoples from October 12-16, 2009, “against [pollution], the commercialization of life … and the criminalization of indigenous and social movements.” Continue reading
Climate Disobedience Is a New “Seattle” in the Making?
In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England. While other activists cut electricity on the plant’s grounds, they prepared to climb the interior of the structure to its top, rappel down its outside, and paint in block letters a demand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown put an end to plants like the Kingsnorth facility, which releases nearly 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day. Continue reading