by Michael Perelman Originally published as “Quick Thoughts on Carbon Sequestration” in Unsettling Economics and MRzine. Posted with the author’s permission. Carbon sequestration is an excessively expensive and probably technically impossible...
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Why Algonquin First Nations Are Blocking Uranium Exploration in Ontario
A Letter from the the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. August 14, 2007 The Honourable Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A...
Evo Morales: "Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity"
The following is Bolivian President Evo Morales’ speech to the United Nations meeting on Climate Change, on September 24, 2007. It should be read injunction with Morales’ letter to the UN, posted here previously. Translation by Climate and...
Brazil's Sugar Cane Cutters Pay the Cost of Ethanol
From 2002 to 2005, 312 workers in the sugar cane and ethanol industries died on the job, and 82,995 suffered accidents while working in cane fields and ethanol plants By Carlos Caminada and Michael Smith (Bloomberg News) International Herald...
Left Victory in Ecuador: Nation's Institutions to be Transformed
By Roger Burbach From Counterpunch, October 1, 2007 “We have won an historic victory,” proclaimed President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. On Sunday the political coalition he heads won an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Constituent...
The Red and The Green, Part One
(William Bowles has been host of the excellent Investigating New Imperialism (INI) site since 2003. He is now leaving that site as an archive, and has launched Creative-I, which, he hopes will be easier to manage because it uses “all the new...
Canadian Mining Company May Be Kicked Out of Ecuador
by Cyril Mychalejko From Upside Down World, September 27, 2007 The Ecuadorian government ordered Canada’s Ascendant Copper to suspend all activities at its controversial Junin project on Tuesday for violating the country’s mining laws. “We...
Ecuador President Rafael Correa to UN: We Offer to Forsake Oil Revenue, for the Sake of Humanity
Speech by Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, to the United Nations High Level meeting on Climate Change September 24th, 2007 Madam, Co-Chairs, Ladies and Gentlemen:Please, allow me to express, on behalf of the people of Ecuador and of my...
Cuban Foreign Minister to UN: “A Real Energy Revolution Must Take Place”
Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, spoke at the UN high-level event on climate change in New York on Monday, September 24 Mr. President: We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and...
Evo Morales to U.N.: “Let Us Respect Our Mother Earth"
Letter from Bolivian President Evo Morales to the members of the United Nations on the issue of the environment. Sister and brother Presidents and Heads of States of the United Nations: The world is suffering from a fever due to climate change, and...