Energy

Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern

Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern

Thanks to News Channel 5’s investigator Sarah Buduson for interviewing me regarding the proposed 250-mile Nexus Gas transmission pipeline from Northeast Ohio to Canada. The pipeline would transport Utica shale gas from fields in eastern Ohio to customers in Ohio, Michigan and Ontario, Canada with possible plans of an expansion once operations begin in November […]

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    Nuclear Cover-Up Threatens Great Lakes Region

    Nuclear Cover-Up Threatens Great Lakes Region

    CounterPunch By Michael Leonardi FirstEnergy’s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station on the shore of Lake Erie near Port Clinton. According to recent reports from the nuclear watchdog Beyond Nuclear and several Great Lakes environmental organizations, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is up to its usual practices as an industry captured agency. Collusion and flagrant cover-ups at […]

    What Is BP Hiding at the Atlantis Oil and Gas Facility?

    What Is BP Hiding at the Atlantis Oil and Gas Facility?

    Food & Water Watch BP’s Atlantis Oil and Gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico. What could be so wrong with BP’s Atlantis oil and gas facility that the company is willing to sacrifice profits and many thousands of barrels of oil a day to shut it down? This question lies at the heart of […]

    How Crowdsourcing Can Provide Renewable Electricity to People in Need

    How Crowdsourcing Can Provide Renewable Electricity to People in Need

    Crisis Mappers By Aaron LeMieux CrisisMappers.net co-founder Jen Ziemke introducing the nPower® PEG to Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe in Uganda. When a crisis hits, people instinctively reach for their mobile phone. What if crowdsourced clean energy could keep that phone charged? Now it can by giving individuals in need the ability to produce electricity from their […]

    Thousands to Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future at 3-Day DC Event in September

    Thousands to Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future at 3-Day DC Event in September

    Coalition Against Nukes Thousands of anti-nuclear activists from across the U.S. will converge on Washington, D.C. this Sept. 20 – 22 for a Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future. The three-day event, brought together by the grassroots network Coalition Against Nukes (CAN), will feature a Congressional briefing on nuclear dangers attended by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH), […]

    Federal Court Rejects Challenge to 400 Million Ton Coal Lease on Public Lands

    Federal Court Rejects Challenge to 400 Million Ton Coal Lease on Public Lands

    WildEarth Guardians Powder River Basin coal mines. Photo by Doc Searls. A Federal District court judge in Washington, D.C. ruled against WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club and the Powder River Basin Resource Council’s challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) misguided decision to lease more than 400 million tons of coal to Cloud […]

    VIDEO: Historic Shutdown of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Site

    VIDEO: Historic Shutdown of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Site

    R.A.M.P.S. Reports have emerged of significant police brutality in relation to the 20 mountaintop removal protesters who were arrested for their participation in a demonstration at the Hobet 45 mining complex in West Virginia on July 28. The protesters remain in custody at the Western Regional Jail, with bail set at $25,000 each. More than […]

    When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine

    When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine

    Harvey Wasserman Renewable “green” energy will be the biggest industry in the history of humankind. Jay Warmke’s When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine is a great way to learn all about it. Jay is blessed with an off-beat sense of humor and a wonderful way of narrating truly earth-shattering history with aplomb and a […]

    Nation’s Largest Coal Ash Dump to Be Shut Down

    Nation’s Largest Coal Ash Dump to Be Shut Down

    Little Blue Regional Action Group Aerial Photo, Little Blue Run Impoundment (Bob Donnan, Oct. 23, 2011) Pennsylvania and national groups today are calling attention to a major court filing made late July 27 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) that will result in the closure of Little Blue Run, the nation’s largest […]