Posts Tagged ‘fracked’

Fracked waste spews from unused gas well in Ohio entering waterways and harming fish

Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 On Thursday, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources confirmed a fracked gas well in Noble County, Ohio had spilled toxic radioactive oil and gas for more than a week. The fluid, referred to as “produced brine” entered waterways contaminating ground water and harming fish in the Crooked […]

Fracked Gas Pipeline In Brooklyn Continues

Above photo: Climate activist Gabriel Jamison says Brownsville wants renewable energy, not more fracked gas. Claire Haughey. Despite Calls to Stop Construction Immediately. The pipeline would carry fracked gas through Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. New York City – Fracked gas could soon be running through a new pipeline near you, despite rising calls […]

Fracked Off. Fossil Fuel Fight Continues

Above Photo: From nativedailynetwork.com Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. Fracked Gas. You might think it was laughing gas considering the way the political and business interests rub their hands and celebrate its use. We see […]

In Right-wing Putsch, UK Labour MPs Deliver Overwhelming Anti-Corbyn Vote

Brexit, the E.U. and the "Special Relationship" of the U.S./U.K.

Any clique in the E.U. that thinks the U.S. will sit idly by while they “punish” the U.K. had better recalibrate their core interests and the potential for blowback. One constant in a fast-shifting global chess board is the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. The term special relationship defines a close collaboration diplomatically, […]

Sheriff’s Dept. Hopeful Wishes A ‘Holocaust And Gas Chambers’ On CopBlock.org’s Writers And Readers

This article was originally posted at TechDirt.com by Tim Cushing. Today’s cautionary tale of How Not to Use the Internet comes to us courtesy of a man who someday hopes to carry a badge and gun. His target? CopBlock.org. For those not familiar with Cop Block, it’s a site that tracks police misconduct. Much of what’s collected […]

Challenging A Wall Street Giant On Pay

Print Friendly Above: BlackRock protest, Aimee Tebay, pictured at the Nurses protest at Bord Altranais at Blackrock. A prominent shareholder activist is fed up with money manager BlackRock over the firm’s practice of rubberstamping obscenely large executive compensation packages at thousands of U.S. corporations. Investor and philanthropist Stephen Silberstein has set up a CEO pay […]

San Diego Says No New Gas!

Print Friendly Above photo: From Facebook. San Diego Residents Call for Moratorium on New Natural Gas Exploration in Response to Porter Ranch Crisis. San Diego, CA – Tuesday, February 9th at 2:30pm, activists with Rising Tide San Diego occupied the Sempra Energy building to call for a moratorium on new natural gas exploration in California. […]

Officer “Robocop” Sentenced To Up To 10 Years In Floyd Dent Beating

A Michigan cop infamously come to be known as “officer Robocop,” has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for the beating, choking and tasing of 57-year-old Floyd Dent, which occurred during a traffic stop in January of last year. Inkster Police said Dent was found in possession of cocaine, had refused to show his hands, and made a […]

Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s Watching You

Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s Watching You November 12th, 2015 Via: ProPublica: TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands has a feature that it’s not advertising: Vizio’s Smart TVs track […]

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