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Wilderness Society’s ‘Grand Compromise’ is a fossil-fuelled sell out
Posted by Ecologist: Alexander Reid Ross on April 7th, 2015
Ecologist: A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought. Lying 8,000 feet elevation, where the Green River and White River feed into the Colorado, the land forms a crucial watershed locale for the 30 million people who rely...
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Comments Off on Wilderness Society’s ‘Grand Compromise’ is a fossil-fuelled sell outAlgeria: fracking and the Ain Salah uprising
Posted by Ecologist: Alexander Reid Ross on March 14th, 2015
Ecologist: Deep in the Algerian Sahara, the oasis town of Ain Salah is a focus of opposition to a new wave of fracking, with violent confrontations between police and up to 40,000 protestors, writes Alexander Reid Ross. They have two main concerns: preventing pollution to the aquifer that sustains them, and keeping out foreign oil giants like Total and Halliburton.
The new policy is playing fast and loose with the aquifer that sustains Ain Salah and its precious oasis - and it's the threat of pollution from...