Category: A sustainable economy

Activists prepare to protect Wangan Jagalingou lands

The Wangan Jagalingou people are mounting another legal challenge to the Qld government

Activist groups around the country are preparing to defend the Wangan Jagalingou lands in the Galilee Basin from coal mines.

The recently approved Adani mine will provide less than 1,500 jobs and will consume 12 billion litres of water each year and create a hole in the ground 64 square kilometres in size.

Direct action on the site will not commence until initiated by local First Nations people.

A group known as Galilee Blockade is coordinating actions around the country, Get Up, World Wildlife Foundation, The Greens and Greenpeace have all announced their support for the Wangan and Jagalingou people, setting up petitions and running advertising campaigns.

The Cage encourages people to directly support the Wangan Jagalingou people as much as possible.

The Wangan Jagalingou website

The Wangan Jagalingou petition

The Galilee blockade

13 December, 2016
Canada quits coal-fired electricity

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Hannah is one of the coal towns affected by the decision

anada announced yesterday that it will phase out all coal fired electricity generation by 2030.

Coal is the dirtiest of the fossil fuels producing over three tonnes of carbon dioxide for every tonne of coal burned.

Canada has also announced a carbon price commencing in two years with an eighty percent reduction target by 2050. Two Canadian states will be worst affected as they currently produce 40 percent of their electricity from coal fired power stations. Nationally, Canada produces the majority of its electricity from hydro-electricity.

http://canada.trendolizer.com/2016/09/hanna-fearful-of-ghost-town-future-as-alberta-quits-coal.html

http://www.mining.com/this-country-just-ended-its-coal-power-production/

Canada quits coal, government sets 2030 deadline

22 November, 2016
Residents blockade West Village development

West End residents protesting at the Mollison St site

West End community groups and Greens councillor Jonathon Sri will blockade the West Village development at the old Peter’s Ice Cream factory on Mollison and Boundary Street West End, starting today Wednesday 23^rd November. The blockade protests the decision of the deputy premier, Jackie Trad, to allow the developers to build 20 storey towers over 80% of the site in clear contravention of the neighbourhood plan. Councillor Sri notes that the densification of the inner city is an important step in building sustainable cities but requires community scale development accompanied by sustainable infrastructure.

http://jonathansri.com/the-economics-of-west-village/

22 November, 2016
Police use water cannon on freezing Standing Rock protestors

A First Nation resident watches the official militia move in

Police from 20 different forces across the USA who have converged on Standing Rock today used water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a group of protestors on a bridge. 17 protestors were taken to hospital, some with hypothermia as a result of being soaked in sub-freezing temperatures.

The protestors were trying to clear the bridge which has been blocked by police since October preventing emergency services from reaching the Sioux community in Standing Rock.

The company behind the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, recommended to its shareholders today that they sell their shares in the company to Sunoco Logistics for 21billion.

Vietnam Veteran organisations have announced they will deploy to Standing Rock on December 3^rd in honour of their vow to go and fight where-ever evil resides.

https://soundcloud.com/geoff-ebbs/standing-rock-writ-large

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/21/medics-describe-how-police-sprayed-standing-rock-demonstrators-with-tear-gas-and-water-cannons/

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/9/12862958/dakota-access-pipeline-fight

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/16/indigenous_activist_zip_tied_locked_in

http://www.businessinsider.com/veterans-deployment-standing-rock-protest-2016-11?IR=T

22 November, 2016
Protestors leaflet BHP AGM this morning

Police and security try to move on the Yellowcake stall at the Entertainment Centre

Robin Taubenfeld and other protestors handed out cake and leaflets at the annual general meeting of BHP in Brisbane this morning.

Police and security guards tried to move protestors on but Ms Taubenfeld successfully argued that the Brisbane Convention and Entertainment Centre is public space and there is nothing illegal about offering cake, tea and information to visitors and passers by.

Robin Taubenfeld prepares the YellowCake for shareholders

The yellow cake represented the Uranium ore which BHP digs out of the Australian soil and exports around the world.

18 November, 2016
California legalises marijuana

25 states in the Union have legalised medical marijuana, 8 states have legalised recreational use.

California voted to legalise marijuana for recreational use during the US election last week, joining Washington and Oregon to make marijuana legal along the length of the US West Coast and providing huge momentum for the legalisation movement. It is expected that California will raise one billion dollars each year in revenue from the measure. Other states passing similar legislation during the federal election include Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts. Florida, North Dakota and Arizona voted for the legalisation of marijuana for medical use but not recreational joining 19 other states with such laws. Eight states, including Alaska and Colorado, have legalized recreational use. Generating one third of the US economy and home to one in eight US citizens California has a significant role in influencing other states.

Marijuana legalised

California, the first state to approve medical marijuana two decades ago, was among five states weighing whether to go beyond medical use and permit pot for adults for recreational purposes. The other states were Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. With California “yes” vote, recreational cannabis will be legal along the entire West Coast, giving the legalization movement powerful momentum.

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/216285833-story

15 November, 2016