Category: RT Newswire

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.

Climate Change and the Forests of the Adirondacks

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It’s about time people (started thinking about U.S. forests…then again, this article holds a landmine toward the end…it’s called “biomass fuels.” Not a bad concept-if it means a return to wood-stoves & local, sustainable harvesting by local workers & sawmills (& not in roadless or old-growth areas).

This is all part of the Great North Woods that run from Maine to Minnesota…therefore this article has implications for the entire bio-region.

ASW

For a decade and more now, headline stories about the relationship
between our emergent new climate and the loss or reduction of forest
cover has proceeded as if only the forests of Africa, the Amazon,
Asia, and the Boreal North mattered. Forests in the U.S. have
remained substantially managed for extraction of wood products and
creation of related jobs–including extraction for jobs in the new
and still unsettled industry of burning forest biomass for fuels.

Lance

Times Union
November 23, 2008

Climate change affects forest
By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer

TUPPER LAKE-What if we looked at the Adirondacks as more than just
a 6-million-acre forest? What if we also viewed it as a kind of
living factory in the fight against global warming, a mechanism
capable of sucking up tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
every day?

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Climate Chaos: Water Worth More Than Gold

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It’s all going to ultimately revolve around water…because Water IS Life.

ASW

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” … the United States will have much less influence around the world
as the growing climate conditions, water and energy stress the planet.”

“Climate change, we concluded, is not by itself going to bring down any
governments. It is not going to lead to wars,” he added. But in the case
of “already stressed and strained and failing and flailing governments
and states … this well could be the straw that breaks the camel´s back.”
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American Chronicle
November 21, 2008

Water worth more than gold
by Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter

The new U.S. intelligence report issued by the
National Intelligence Council, the “Global Trends
2025” report includes warnings tied to climate
change. Including water and food shortages
worldwide.

Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC and deputy
director of national intelligence says of the
report that may effect the U.S. most is that the
United States will have much less influence
around the world as the growing climate
conditions, water and energy stress the planet.

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U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections–Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve Up Mount Tenabo Spiritual Area

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For Immediate Release:
Contacts:
Larson Bill, South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone,
775-744-2565/775-397-6726
Dan Randolph, Great Basin Resource Watch, 775-722-4056
Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775-397-1371

Thanksgiving the “Cortez” Way-U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections–Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve up Mount Tenabo Spiritual Area

November 20, 2008 Reno and Crescent Valley, NV.

Last week, after years of determined opposition from Western Shoshone, the U.S. Department of Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approved one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States on the flank of Mount Tenabo–an area well-known for its spiritual and cultural importance to the Western Shoshone. The area is home to local Shoshone creation stories, spirit life, medicinal, food and ceremonial plants and items and continues to be used to this day by Shoshone for spiritual and cultural practices. Over the years, tens of thousands of individuals and organizations from across the United States and around the world have joined with the Shoshone and voiced their opposition to this mine. The mine has been referred to as one of the most opposed mines in the world and indeed the level of public opposition is unprecedented for the BLM. With the threat of mine construction beginning as early as this week, the South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, the Western Shoshone Defense Project, and Great Basin Resource Watch, today filed a complaint in the Reno Federal District Court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the mine.

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