Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is Game Over for the Climate

Posted on August 26, 2011 by iwilder

For a fourth straight day outside the White House, environmentalists were arrested for peacefully protesting a pipeline that would carry acidic crude oil from Western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, who spent the weekend with fellow demonstrators in a Washington jail, discusses the the success of the protest and […]

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Tokyo Electric to build US nuclear plants

Posted on March 16, 2011 by iwilder

I don’t know the law in Japan, so I can’t tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co TEPCO can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen. But what will Obama plead?  The Administration, just months ago, asked Congress to provide a $4 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors to be built and operated […]

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