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Photo Essay: “Bright Green Lies” — Wind Energy Kills Birds, Bats, and the Future

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Have you ever been to a so-called “green” energy generation facility? Recently several members of Deep Green Resistance visited the Spring Valley Wind Project, a set of 66 turbines, each nearly 400 feet tall and rated to produce 2.3 MW of power. This set of wind turbines in Spring Valley, NV has destroyed the land … Continue reading Photo Essay: “Bright Green Lies” — Wind Energy Kills Birds, Bats, and the Future →
Climate Change

Climate Change is Shrinking the Colorado River

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Featured image: Lake Powell, photographed April 12, 2017. The white ‘bathtub ring’ at the cliff base indicates how much higher the lake reached at its peak, nearly 100 feet above the current level. Patti Weeks by Brad Udall, Colorado State University and Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona / The Conversation The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead … Continue reading Climate Change is Shrinking the Colorado River →
Mining & Drilling

Grand Canyon Indigenous Allies in Fight Against Uranium Mining

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Featured image: A humble warning at the Canyon mine. Photo: Garet Bleir       by John Ahni Schertow / Intercontinental Cry A Canadian company, Energy Fuels Inc., is about to begin mining high-grade uranium ore just 5 miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. If the project goes ahead, the Colorado River could … Continue reading Grand Canyon Indigenous Allies in Fight Against Uranium Mining →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction

Pinyon-Juniper Forests, Pine Nuts, and True Sustainability

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   by Will Falk / Deep Green Resistance A windmill blade knocks the head off a Cooper’s hawk interrupting the late afternoon peace in Spring Valley, just outside Ely, Nevada. The blade tosses the hawk’s body onto yellow gravel the power company spread, over living soil, in circles around their windmills. The ever-present Great Basin … Continue reading Pinyon-Juniper Forests, Pine Nuts, and True Sustainability →
Mining & Drilling, Protests & Symbolic Acts

Flash Mob for Barriere Lake: No means never, Copper One

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     by Barriere Lake Solidarity When: Thursday, June 1st, 4:15pm Where: 65 Queen Street West, 8th floor, Toronto Join us for a flash rally outside of the Annual General Meeting of Copper One – a mining company that has been relentlessly pursuing a claim on Barriere Lake’s land despite firm and repeated refusals by the … Continue reading Flash Mob for Barriere Lake: No means never, Copper One →
The Solution: Resistance, Human Supremacy

Sustainability is Destroying the Earth: The Green Economy vs. The Planet

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by Kim Hill, Deep Green Resistance Australia Don’t talk to me about sustainability. You want to question my lifestyle, my impact, my ecological footprint? There is a monster standing over us, with a footprint so large it can trample a whole planet underfoot, without noticing or caring. This monster is Industrial Civilization. I refuse to … Continue reading Sustainability is Destroying the Earth: The Green Economy vs. The Planet →
Mining & Drilling

Bristol Bay Outrage as Trump EPA Scores Backroom Deal With Pebble Mine

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Featured image: Bristol Bay Leadership at a press conference in Dillingham, AK on Pebble & EPA settlement.      by United Tribes of Bristol Bay / Intercontinental Cry DILLINGHAM, AK –Bristol Bay leaders are outraged by the Pebble Limited Partnership and Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) settlement concerning the proposed Clean Water Act protections for the Bristol … Continue reading Bristol Bay Outrage as Trump EPA Scores Backroom Deal With Pebble Mine →
Mining & Drilling, Strategy & Analysis

Derrick Jensen: Forget Shorter Showers

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Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? ... Continue reading →
Colonialism & Conquest, Mining & Drilling

Indian Authorities Harass Tribal Leaders

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Featured image:  The Dongria have resisted attempts to mine in their hills for years, but are facing serious pressure to give in.  © Survival International      by Survival International The Indian government is harassing and attempting to silence the leaders of the Dongria Kondh tribe, famous for winning a “David and Goliath” court battle … Continue reading Indian Authorities Harass Tribal Leaders →
Climate Change, Lobbying

Coos County: take decisive action, vote yes on 6-162

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A massive proposed LNG (liquefied natural gas) pipeline and export terminal has been proposed in Coos County, on the southern Oregon coast. These projects, which are expected to cost $7.6 billion (twice as much as the Dakota Access Pipeline), are known as the “Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline” and the “Jordan Cove LNG Export Terminal.” The … Continue reading Coos County: take decisive action, vote yes on 6-162 →