Environment

Another Setback for Logging Company's $A6.9 Million SLAPP

by Bob Burton — August 30, 2006 - 6:39am

Victorian Supreme Court judge Justice Bernard Bongiorno has struck out the third statement of claim in a SLAPP suit by the Australian logging company Gunns. In December 2004, Gunns initiated the legal action against 20 environmentalists and environmental groups, over their campaign against the logging of old-growth and wilderness forests.

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The Age (Australia), August 29, 2006

Some Like It Hot

by Bob Burton — August 15, 2006 - 5:33am

Numerous climate change skeptics have spent most of the two decades denying increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations were anything to worry about. Donald J. Boudreaux, the chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University and an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, takes a different tack.

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Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2006

BP's Adman Got Suckered by His Own Scripts

by John Stauber — August 14, 2006 - 11:09am

BP is the most successful oil company at greenwashing its own image. Unfortunately for BP, the recent news about its massive oil leak in Alaska and the shutting down of its corrosive pipelines have revealed the truth -- it really is all about oil profits. In the New York Times , a BP adman admits that even he was suckered.

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New York Times, August 14, 2006

No Green on the TV Screen - Networks Short the Environment

by Diane Farsetta — August 7, 2006 - 1:29pm

"Environmental coverage -- not counting natural disasters and weather -- dropped nearly to record low levels in 2005 on the three national broadcast networks' weekday nightly newscasts," according to a new study by Andrew Tyndall. Throughout 2005, the newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC combined spent just 168 minutes on environmental news. Since 1988, the three networks have spent an average of two percent of their newscasts on environmental news and four percent on natural disasters.

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Environment Writer newsletter (US), August 2006

Lovins Says U.S. Nuclear Power Is Too Dead To Jump Start

by Bob Burton — July 26, 2006 - 6:55am

Amory Lovins, the Chief Executive Officer of the Rocky Mountains Institute, an eco-efficiency think tank, is aghast at U.S. government support for the U.S.- India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative. The agreement would facilitate an expansion of nuclear power in India, which is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Washington Post, July 25, 2006

Beyond Persecution?

by Bob Burton — July 26, 2006 - 6:46am

The global oil giant, BP, has reached a multi-million pound out-of-court settlement with a group of Colombian farmers after they brought a legal action against the company in Britain. They alleged that Exploration Company (Colombia) "benefited from harassment and intimidation meted out by Colombian paramilitaries employed by the government" to guard a 450-kilometre long pipeline from the Cusiana-Cupiagua oilfields.

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The Independent (UK), July 22 , 2006

Business Lobbies Hard for India's Nuclear Exemption

by Bob Burton — July 20, 2006 - 4:22am

Robert Hoffman, a lobbyist for Oracle, describes the preliminary Congressional vote to exempt India from a ban on nuclear technology sales as "a coming-out party of sorts for the India lobby." The U.S. Atomic Energy Act bans nuclear sales to countries, such as India, that have not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Last month, both House and Senate committees gave in-principle support to the agreement negotiated between U.S. President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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International Herald Tribune, July 18, 2006
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