Wetlands under threat of a Line 5 pipeline or tunnel disaster (Photo: Bill Latka) For the first time since 2006, federal pipeline safety regulators failed to show up where it really matters —at the annual Pipeline Safety Trust conference taking place today and tomorrow in New Orleans. This unprecedented absence speaks volumes about priorities…
Category: ecology
Oil & Water Don’t Mix — Help Stop Enbridge from building a pipeline under the Great Lakes
I’ve had this blog since 2017 and have been blogging regularly since 2018. Those who read the blog know I don’t do product promotions or ask for readers to donate as a practice. But please, read about this advocacy group and about Indigenous Water Protectors in this newsletter I just received and if nothing else,…
dVerse — MTB — The Lorax* Reboot
We stand, singly or in groups, quiet but for when wind stirs us; ask nothing but that you breathe. We give shade to all but clouds, sip from aquifers and riverbeds, dialogue with fungi mat friends. We offer shelter to the feathered, furred, clawed, mirror-ball-eyed insects, reptiles; to share space. Let me repeat, we ask…
Decommission Line 5, the GIANT OIL PIPELINE that travels under The Great Lakes from Canada to the U.S.
Oil & Water Don’t Mix is an activist group doing their best to shut down Line 5. Learn more about the issue and how you can help here.
dVerse Haibun Monday and earthweal weekly challenge — (river) bed’s graveyard
Algae in a water sample from the St. Croix River, magnified about 200x. (Photo by Aiden T., student from Lee & Rose Warner Nature Center) Just as a forest provides a specialized ecosystem that includes shelter for its inhabitants along the food chain, so too does a river. Having grown up and lived my life…
D.C. Circuit Rejects Oglala Sioux Tribe Challenge to Uranium Mine — Turtle Talk
Excerpt from the Tribal Brief: This case concerns the proposed Dewey-Burdock in situ leach uraniumextraction project in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The project lands are withinthe traditional aboriginal territory of the Tribe and included in the 1851 FortLaramie Treaty and the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty (15 Stat., 635). The Project areais known to…
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