Obama calls for combination of European fracking and US exports to serve EU energy needs
Speaking after a meeting with European leaders at the EU-US summit in Brussels on Wednesday, President Barack Obama suggested that the U.S. is open to exporting fracked shale gas, once promised as the source of American "energy independence," to the EU and urged the EU to open up its own fracking reserves amid energy fears related to the crisis in
‘Great political clout’ of energy industry trumps those in need of drinking water.
An unrelenting increase in energy production, including unconventional methods such as tar sands extraction and fracking, will severely damage the world's already dwindling water supply, the UN warned on Friday. "There is an increasing potential for serious conflict between power generation, other water users and environmental considerations,"
‘My wish is for us to know who owns and controls companies so that they can no longer be used anonymously against the public good’
The identity of the owners of anonymous companies who work behind closed doors against the "public good" should no longer be kept private, Charmian Gooch, co-founder of Global Witness, said Tuesday as she received the TED Prize at the TED2014 conference. Anonymous companies, explained Gooch, are extremely cheap and easy to set up and are
New York pushes for hotline for workers and other protections in fight against fast food giant
Following a legal settlement in the first of a series of class-action lawsuits charging fast food giant McDonald's with mass wage-theft across the country, New York State officials announced on Tuesday plans to establish of a wage theft hotline, where fast food workers can anonymously blow the whistle on abusive employers. “It’s hard enough for
Rise of carbon in the atmosphere raising acidity in oceans and causing ‘cascading effect’ at all levels of the food chain
An increase of acidity in the Pacific Ocean is quickly killing off one of the world's most beloved shellfish, the scallop, according to a report by the British Columbia Shellfish Grower’s Association. “By June of 2013, we lost almost 95 per cent of our crops,” Rob Saunders, CEO of Island Scallops in B.C. told Canada's CTV News. The cause of
Wyoming Supreme Court rejects industry’s justification of secrecy surrounding chemicals injected underground.
The concoction of chemicals used in the oil and gas drilling process known as 'fracking' may not be kept a "trade secret" for much longer, following a ruling by the Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday. The plaintiffs in the case, the Powder River Basin Resource Council and other groups concerned about the controversial drilling technique, said
I demand ‘my liberty and fair treatment for others’ says Guantanamo detainee making ‘historic legal challenge’ against US government
In what is being hailed as a "historic legal challenge" to the United States government, a U.S. court will hear for the first time from a Guantánamo detainee who claims that force-feeding at the U.S. military prison amounts to torture. Emad Hassan, who is severely ill and suffers from serious internal injuries — which his lawyers at the human