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.

Test Biomass Harvests Yield Important Lessons

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 19, 2008
10:00 AM

 CONTACT: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Ben Lilliston, 612-870-3416,
ben@iatp.org
 
Test Biomass Harvests Yield Important Lessons
 
MINNEAPOLIS – June 19 – A series of test forest biomass harvests from the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota indicate that such harvests could reduce the cost of fire prevention management while providing work for loggers and fuel for renewable energy facilities.

The findings were released today in the study, “Harvesting Fuel: Cutting Costs and Reducing Forest Fire Hazards Through Biomass Harvest,” coauthored by Don Arnosti (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy), Dr. Dalia Abbas (University of Minnesota) and Dr. Michael Demchik (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point). Biomass is material in the forest not traditionally utilized in pulpwood or sawtimber markets, such as shrubs, small-diameter trees, tree branches, and coarse woody debris.

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Climate Change and Extreme Weather: 2 Stories

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Extreme weather to increase with climate change
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Published: 06.19.2008

WASHINGTON – Droughts will get dryer, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with changing climate, a government research report said Thursday.
Events that have seemed relatively rare will become commonplace, said the latest report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a joint effort of more than a dozen government agencies.

There has been an increase in the frequency of heavy downpours, especially over northern states, and these are likely to continue in the future, Thomas R. Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center, said in a briefing.

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Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn Beaten and Hospitalized at Border

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Subject: [Jericho Boston] Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn beaten and hospitalized
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Date:    Wed, June 18, 2008 5:57 pm
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Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn beaten and hospitalized at border

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<http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2008/06//users/brenda-norrell>Brenda
Norrell – June 16, 2008 at 9:36 pm

By Brenda Norrell

Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was beaten by
special forces at the US/Canadian border. Kahentinetha suffered a
heart attack and is currently hospitalized in Canada. Katenies, who
was accompanying her, was taken to prison at an undisclosed location.
Please read the following message, which has been confirmed as true,
and contact the leaders of Canada and demand both women be released
and justice served to the perpetrators.

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