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.
Rainwater Harvesting Rules Have Developers Worried
They question how standards will affect their bottom lines
CARLI BROSSEAU
Published: 07.23.2008
Tucson, AZ
When local developers heard they may be required to harvest enough rainwater to irrigate 75 percent of the landscaping on any new property they develop, they got nervous.
Then they started asking questions: How much will this cost? How will it work? Will I need to buy cisterns? Have they considered that those things are ugly?
Rights and Resources Initiative
Public release date: 14-Jul-2008
Contact: Jeff Haskins
jhaskins@burnesscommunications.com
254-729-871-422
LONDON (14 July 2008) — Escalating global demand
for fuel, food and wood fibre will destroy the
world’s forests, if efforts to address climate
change and poverty fail to empower the
billion-plus forest-dependent poor, according to
two reports released today by the U.S.-based
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), an
international coalition comprising the world’s
foremost organisations on forest governance and
conservation.
The studies were delivered today at an event in
the House of Commons hosted by Martin Horwood, MP
for Cheltenham. Sponsored by RRI and the UK-based
Forest Peoples Programme, speakers included
Gareth Thomas, the UK Minister for Trade and
Development; authors of the two reports; as well
as advocates for forest communities in Africa and
Asia.
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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.