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Back for another semester..
We are back for another semester of the environmental justice class at Texas A&M University. Students will be posting their thoughts and comments for the next several months, and I will be adding my own two cents moving forward. Great to be back!
Burning issue: ‘Waste-to-energy’ plants take off in bid to cut garbage, fuel use
Texas Tribune – El Paso Power Plant Draws Community Opposition
Renamed site
Dear Friends and Followers, just a note on the name change. I decided to switch the order of the blog’s title and subtitle. The change better reflects material posted on the blog.
-wej
Dakota Rural Action supports tribes in rejecting Keystone XL
Dakota Rural Action board chair Paul Seamans speaks in solidarity with indigenous tribes in rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline during a press conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, on May 16, 2013. In an act of unification, 10 tribes walked out on a State Department consultation and demanded to meet with President Obama on their own terms.
No peace pipe: Native American tribes on warpath over Keystone XL pipeline from RT.com
Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to ‘environmental genocide.’
Native Americans are opposed to the 1,179-mile (1,897km) Keystone XL project, a system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in Texas for various reasons, including possible damage to sacred sites, pollution, and water contamination.
Although the planned pipeline would not pass directly through any Native American reservation, tribes in proximity to the proposed system say it will violate their traditional lands and that the environmental risks of the project are simply too great.
Russ Girling, CEO of TransCanada, the company that hopes to build the pipeline, has promised in the past that Keystone XL will be “the safest pipeline ever built.”
The Indian groups, as well as…
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West, Texas Plant Explosion and Land Use Planning
Thanks, Geog 430
Thanks to all my Geog. 430 students this spring semester. Your participation and meaningful contributions to class discussion and the blog made the semester a great learning experience for all. I asked you to work hard. I demanded clear thinking (and lots of reading). I encouraged better writing. I asked for more participation each meeting. And you came through.
I wish all of you the best and please continue to contribute to the blog. You have earned your place as an Author and I look forward to hearing from you. I really mean it.
-wej
Burning Tar Sands = ‘Unsolvable’ Climate Crisis: Hansen
See on Scoop.it – FrackInformant
Fresh off his resignation from NASA, leading climate scientist James Hansen is making the rounds this week, warning media and lawmakers that not only are we heading for a “tremendously chaotic” climate, but if we dig up and burn Canadian tar sands, the climate crisis will be rendered “unsolvable.”
See on www.commondreams.org
A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit. The New York Times
Another cost of tarsands, Keystone XL
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