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.

Brazil Backs Amazon Soy Ban

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Brazil throws weight behind Amazon soy ban
Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:20am EDT  By Ana Nicolaci da Costa

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s new environment minister reached an agreement with the grain processing industry to ban purchases of soy from deforested Amazon until July 2009, winning praise from environmentalists.

“This same initiative will be extended to two other sectors — the timber sector and the beef sector,” Environment Minister Carlos Minc said while praising the grain industry and non-governmental organizations for a “pioneering” initiative.

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Australia in Grip of Tenacious Drought: 2 Stories

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Australian rivers ‘face disaster’ 
By Nick Bryant  BBC News, Sydney 

Australia is facing is worst drought in a century

Parts of Australia’s vital Murray-Darling river basin will be beyond the point of recovery unless they receive water by October.

That is the verdict of an expert panel whose leaked report warns of dire consequences like the loss of wetlands, vegetation and some fish species.

The Green party has hit out at the government for deferring consideration of the report until November.

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New Salmon Plan Fails to Address Effects of Dams, Global Warming

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2008  2:48 PM

CONTACT: American Rivers
Michael Garrity, 206-852-5583 (cell)
 
New Salmon Plan Fails to Address Effects of Dams, Global Warming
American Rivers Urges Judge Redden to Give New Administration a Chance to Get it Right
 
WASHINGTON, DC – June 17 – Today a coalition of environmental and fishing organizations, including American Rivers, sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over the 2008 Biological Opinion, or Salmon Plan, on the Columbia and Snake river dams. The new Salmon Plan is the third attempt by NMFS in eight years to submit a plan that passes legal muster.

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