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- Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'More proof that the U.S. military is the world’s worst and deadliest polluter---READ-->>
- Video: How tar sands threaten our communitiesVideo of meeting to protest Enbridge’s tar sand pipeline, organized by Toronto East End Against Line 9, August 25, 2013---READ-->>
- Lessons of the Lac Mégantic oil train disasterOil-by-rail should be banned for safety reasons, but the explosion also adds to the argument for an urgent, emergency shift away from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.---READ-->>
- Fracking’s false promise of plentyAn angry book challenges claims by industry and media that fracking will meet America’s energy needs---READ-->>
- How to answer TransCanada’s pipeline spinThese talking points, prepared by the Council of Canadians, provide clear and pointed answers to TransCanada’s lies, damned lies, and pipeline promotion spin.---READ-->>
- Is the climate sick of us?Video: Ian Angus, interviewed in Lisbon in 2010---READ-->>
- Stop Energy East! A new resource for pipeline activistsNew website documents the dangers of TransCanada’s pipeline---READ-->>
- An antidote to climate change denialA CounterPunch author says global warming has stopped. He’s just plain wrong---READ-->>
- Corporate interests undermine African food sovereigntyAfrican small farmers denounce genetically modified seeds, agro-chemicals, resource grabs and laws that prevent them from freely using, sharing or selling their seed.---READ-->>
- Fracking SongEmily Blyth tells them where to frack---READ-->>
- Canada's energy regulator refuses to read thisPeople whose water, air and homes are endangered by Enbridge Line 9 have been refused the right to testify. We’re fighting back anyway.---READ-->>
- Privatizing the air, 100 years agoCarbon trading is a recent invention, but the idea that capitalists would privatize the air if they could isn’t new at all.---READ-->>
- After the explosion: Deadly pollution in Lac-MéganticEnvironmental group finds carcinogen levels in Chaudiere River are now are nearly 400,000 times higher than the legal limit.---READ-->>
- Interview with Eastern Ontario anti-pipeline activists“What benefit could there possibly be to make up for the risks involved?”---READ-->>
- Another blow to climate 'skeptics'American Geophysical Union says ‘ rapid societal responses’ are needed to prevent harmful climate change impacts around the world---READ-->>
- Oil industry wrote State Department report on Keystone XLThe US government report that minimized pipeline environmental impact was drafted by consultants who also work for TransCanada and the American Petroleum Institute.---READ-->>
- New pipeline plan dwarfs Keystone XLFirst Nations and environmentalists vow to fight proposal to pump over a million barrels of tar sands oil and bitumen a day — 33% more than Keystone — from Alberta to the Atlantic Ocean---READ-->>
- Photos: A tar sands pipeline-in-waitingTransCanada wants to pump tar sands crude through this pipeline---READ-->>
- Tar Free 613Stop the Energy East pipeline---READ-->>
- Oil, energy and capitalism: An unpublished talk by Barry Commoner“Oil companies do not operate for the purpose of producing oil. They operate for the purpose of producing maximum profit. To solve the energy crisis, we have to reorganize our economic system.”---READ-->>