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.

Statement of the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and Natural Resources Defense Council on Bush Administration’s Request for Further Delay in Protecting Polar Bears From Global Warming

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 17, 2008
6:33 PM

 CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity / Greenpeace / NRDC
Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, (760) 366-2232 x 302 or cell, (951) 961-7972, ksiegel@biologicaldiversity.org
Andrew Wetzler, NRDC, (614) 840-0891 or cell, (312) 823-4241, awetzler@nrdc.org
Jane Kochersperger, Greenpeace, (202) 319-2493 or cell, (202) 680-3798
 
 
Statement of the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and Natural Resources Defense Council on Bush Administration’s Request for Further Delay in Protecting Polar Bears From Global Warming
 
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – April 17 – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, responding to a court motion filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, admitted in court papers it filed today that it is violating the law by delaying protection to polar bears and asked the court to allow it to delay still further, until June 30, 2008.

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Freshening of Deep Antarctic Waters Worries Experts

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Freshening of deep Antarctic waters worries experts
Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:13pm EDT 

 
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  By David Fogarty

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Scientists studying the icy depths of the sea around Antarctica have detected changes in salinity that could have profound effects on the world’s climate and ocean currents.

The scientists returned to the southern Australian city of Hobart on Thursday after a one-month voyage studying the Southern Ocean to see how it is changing and what those changes might mean for global climate patterns.

Voyage leader Steve Rintoul said his team found that salty, dense water that sinks near the edge of Antarctica to the bottom of the ocean about 5 km (3 miles) down was becoming fresher and more buoyant.

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RAN Activists Block Weyerhauser Shareholders Meeting

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 17, 2008
2:14 PM

CONTACT: Rainforest Action Network
Sam Haswell, Communications Director
(415) 659-0519
 
 
Activists With Rainforest Action Network Block Entry to Weyerhaeuser Shareholder Meeting
 
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – April 17 – Several activists with Rainforest Action Network (RAN) were arrested today after chaining themselves to the main entrance to Weyerhaeuser Corp.’s annual shareholder meeting to protest the company’s contract to buy wood logged without consent from the territory of a Canadian First Nation.
The activists were demanding that Weyerhaeuser stop buying wood clear-cut from the northwestern Ontario traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, which has declared a moratorium on all industrial activities on its land. Last week, RAN issued a letter to Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel demanding that the company follow the lead of its competitor Boise Inc., which in February announced that it would suspend its contract for wood obtained from the conflict region unless community consent can be established. Several proxies and shareholders inside the meeting are also raising the issue.

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