Ecocide by Industry — November 2020

Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity

Hydrogen homes is a terrible idea

Wave of Oil and Gas Bankruptcies Leave Taxpayers Footing the Bill for Environmental Cleanup • Children’s Health Defense

Big oil, small ambition | Corporate Knights

Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Shell Oil Over Hypocritical Emissions Reduction Tweet

Alberta town on the verge of collapse due to aging oil wells

Meet the Group Behind Big Energy Front Groups • Children’s Health Defense

Clean energy hit record growth in 2020, despite Covid-19 | The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News

San Francisco Bans New Natural Gas Hookups

Bribery-tainted coal plant in Indonesia held up as landowners hold out

Enbridge fined $40K for failing to properly monitor B.C. pipeline prior to explosion | CBC News

Bay Area refinery expansion halted; project would have allowed 76 additional oil tankers per year in San Francisco Bay | Stand.earth

‘This Is a Really, Really Big Deal’: Michigan Gov. Moves to Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline to Protect Great Lakes | Common Dreams News

https://www.ecowatch.com/michigan-enbridge-pipeline-whitmer-2648940155.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

Environmental Justice Reporters Face Deadly Threats, Intimidation – EcoWatch

Three ways the oil industry has been gaslighting you this week – Environmental Defence

Remote solar farm north of oilsands becomes largest in Canada

Oil and gas in Kazakhstan

Native Americans, Environmentalists Notch Another Pipeline Victory | Sierra Club

The Coal Mining Industry Is Collapsing, and Communities Are at Risk from Abandoned Mines | Sierra Club

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/10/us-corporations-profiting-major-canadian-nuclear-liability

https://www.ecowatch.com/shell-oil-energy-debate-2648605186.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5

https://theecologist.org/2020/nov/02/trump-backs-fracking-over-science

https://worldanimalnews.com/socalgas-begins-drilling-at-ballona-wetlands-ecological-reserve-putting-animals-at-risk/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/03/shells-climate-poll-on-twitter-backfires-spectacularly

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-illegal-air-pollution/

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/11/04/news/oilsands-workers-group-renewable-energy-development-pandemic-recovery

https://globalnews.ca/news/7455012/alberta-farmers-legal-action-energy-oil-lease/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/11/11/TMX-Expansion-What-At-Stake/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/weymouth-mayor-colluding-enbridge/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/12/thermal-coal-firms-climate-pledge-report-paris-goals

https://earthjustice.org/features/badger-two-medicine

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-govt-opposes-oil-exploration-anwr-1.5797701

https://theintercept.com/2020/11/15/standing-rock-tigerswan-infiltrator-documents/

https://theenergymix.com/2020/11/16/canada-boosts-fossil-subsidies-to-14-3b-per-year-joins-saudi-arabia-as-g20s-top-two-oil-and-gas-funders/

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-future-oil-gas-communities/

https://theenergymix.com/2020/11/18/michigan-governor-yanks-great-lakes-pipeline-easement-citing-enbridge-violations/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/weymouth-mayor-colluding-enbridge/

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-11-19/greenwash/

https://earthjustice.org/brief/2020/victory-for-tribes-as-michigan-governor-stops-oil-giant

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/otter-penis-oilsands-alberta-1.5818973

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-30/bofa-says-it-won-t-finance-oil-and-gas-exploration-in-the-arctic

Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,

Of mice and men: Could COVID spell the end of animal testing?   | Corporate Knights

New Tab

Journals Published ‘Flawed’ Studies on COVID Origin, Scientist Says • Children’s Health Defense

Government Muzzled Media on Birth Defects in Children of Gulf War Veterans • Children’s Health Defense

Media Hypes Moderna’s COVID Vaccine, Downplays Risks • Children’s Health Defense

Pfizer Vaccine 90% Effective Claim Unsubstantiated by Peer-Review Journals and World Health Organization • Children’s Health Defense

https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/11/12/lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-eliminate-use-of-dogs-in-pharmaceutical-testing/

Industrial Crop Farming

Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest

Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo

Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest

France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy

Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands

Razing Brazil’s ‘upside-down forest’: how global hunger for soya is consuming the Cerrado – Unearthed

Hazelnut crisis in Tuscia

https://www.ecowatch.com/ogallala-aquifer-running-dry-2648786903.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/indonesia-protected-forest-agribusiness-food-estate-regulation/

Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills

China Is Building a City of Pig Apartments to Protect Their Herds from Swine Flu

National Farm Animal Care Council Five Year Review Condemns Pigs to Prolonged Suffering – Animal Protection Party Of Canada

‘We could smell the boat approaching’: the grim truth about animal exports | Environment | The Guardian

Reporting on Animals, Animal Rights, and Human Choices –

UK Health Alliance Wants Carbon-Intensive Foods to Be Labeled and Taxed

Factory Farming vs. Alternative Farming: The Humane Hoax

Grizzlies Become a Sacrificial Lamb to Protect Cattle Interests | Sierra Club

Covid: Ireland set to cull all 120,000 mink on its fur farms over fears of virus spreading | The Independent

‘Suffocating closeness’: US judge condemns ‘appalling conditions’ on industrial farms | Environment | The Guardian

New Report Reveals USDA Is Failing The 9.6 Billion Turkeys & Chickens Who Are Killed At Slaughterhouses Each Year – World Animal News

Animal Justice – Hylife Foods Slaughterhouse Quietly Fined for Cruelty to Pigs

New Report: USDA Continues to Tolerate Poultry Abuse at Largest Slaughter Plants | Animal Welfare Institute

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petition: Fashion brand Hermès is building a facility just to factory farm crocodiles who will be skinned for bags and shoes!

https://www.straight.com/news/peter-fricker-pork-industry-should-keep-its-promise-to-end-inhumane-practice

https://www.facebook.com/EmmaHurstMP/photos/a.216122658781076/1271699849890013/?type=3&theater

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2087612&playlistId=1.5207685

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/coronavirus/2020/11/27/covid-19-confirmed-10-oregon-mink-farm-regon-department-agriculture/6441838002/

Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life

Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to declare marine sanctuaries

Norwegian company secures financing for industrial-scale salmon farm in rural Nevada | TahoeDailyTribune.com

Sea Shepherd Global

Sea Shepherd Global

NZ government to defend kaimoana exports in US lawsuit over Māui dolphins | RNZ News

B.C. outdoor group calls for removal of U.S. dam – Goldstream News Gazette

Fishermen are cutting off the beaks of endangered albatrosses | Natural History Museum

Government agencies pull industrial tires from Chemainus Bay

A New Generation of Autonomous Vessels Is Looking to Catch Illegal Fishers | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine

Open Letter to Biden: We Don’t Want KXL

How China’s vast and aggressive fishing fleet is kept afloat by Beijing | South China Morning Post

Petition e-2877 – Petitions

The New Wave of Fishless Fish Is Here | Outside Online

Breaking! New Report By Oceana Finds That Plastic Pollution Is Responsible For Entangling & Choking 1,800 Marine Animals In U.S. Waters – World Animal News

Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume

https://www.ecowatch.com/gmo-salmon-fda-lawsuit-2648650547.html

https://www.intrafish.com/legal/us-company-files-lawsuit-against-mowi-claiming-it-was-deceived-by-sustainable-farmed-salmon-labeling/2-1-907802

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/whale-zone-ahead-a-cetacean-speed-trap-tags-ships-going-over-the-limit/

https://worldanimalnews.com/sea-shepherd-carries-out-critical-operation-retrieving-ghost-nets-to-save-less-than-10-vaquita-remaining-in-the-wild-the-worlds-most-endangered-marine-mammal/

https://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/norwegian-experts-fear-a-new-farmed-salmon-disease-is-on-the-rise-while-another-is-being-underestimated/2-1-908980

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/november/fishermen-are-cutting-off-the-beaks-of-endangered-albatrosses.html

https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/no-label-canadas-invisible-genetically-modified-salmon/

https://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2020/11/options-to-remove-impact-of-farm-lice.html

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/bottlenose-dolphins-could-disappear-from-ecuadors-gulf-of-guayaquil/

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/are-industrial-chemicals-killing-rare-whales-and-familiar-dolphins/

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/bottlenose-dolphins-could-disappear-from-ecuadors-gulf-of-guayaquil/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/industrial-fish-farms-threaten-human-health-environment/

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/at-sea-and-in-court-the-fight-to-save-the-worlds-rarest-whales-intensifies/

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/murky-waters-a-history-of-toxic-chemicals-in-the-fish-farming-industry-1.24247101

Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking

Police probe after activists film fox being torn to pieces by hunt hounds

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

While you’ve been in lockdown, so have wildlife criminals – and many of them have been ‘working from home’ – EIA

Gangs in Latin America use bribery, secret routes to smuggle jaguar parts to China: report | Reuters

National Farm Animal Care Council Five Year Review Condemns Pigs to Prolonged Suffering – Animal Protection Party Of Canada

Calf runs for its life while being chased by hunt hounds

White moose illegally shot near Foleyet | Sudbury Star

Conservationists warn that violation of China’s wildlife trade ban is ‘rampant’ | The Independent

Tusks and crocodile blood seized at UK borders in crackdown on endangered animal products | UK News | Sky News

Illegal medicines made from rhino horns and tigers seized from Scots businesses – Daily Record

Snare traps decline, but still pose a threat to Leuser’s Sumatran rhinos

$10,000 Reward Offered for Information on Illegal Killing of Mother Grizzly Bear, Cub in Montana – Center for Biological Diversity

Breaking! Undercover Investigation Exposes South African President’s Secret Ties To Trophy Hunting, Including A 50% Stake In Tsala Hunting Safaris – World Animal News

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Poachers evade KZN park’s high-tech security and kill four rhinos for their horns

Turtle Survival Alliance – Posts

Big mammals are at risk in the world’s poorest countries, even within parks

Captive Lion Breeding is Damaging South Africa’s Tourism Reputation – SAPeople – Your Worldwide South African Community

https://thefurbearers.com/blog/billboards-put-spotlight-on-b-c-trapping-issues/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259906-the-meat-of-protected-african-animals-is-being-sold-in-belgium/

Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers

‘Vogue’ Declares ‘Fashion Finally Needs To Disown Fur’ Amid COVID-19

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2020/11/25/animal-charities-hit-out-at-amazon-for-selling-barbaric-home-ear-cropping-kits-for-dogs/

Logging & Mining

Malaysia’s Indigenous people question timber sustainability | Malaysia | Al Jazeera

Subscribe to read | Financial Times

COVID-19, animals, and enlightened self-interest | British Columbia Medical Journal

Chinese demand and domestic instability are wiping out Senegal’s last forests

Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes anti-mining agenda

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Government blocks proposed mine that threatened Alaska salmon fishery | Alaska | The Guardian

Ranchers, landowners worry copper mine’s plan will taint groundwater in San Juan County – The Salt Lake Tribune

https://www.myprincegeorgenow.com/131844/prince-george-woman-becomes-first-ever-non-korean-to-challenge-korean-government-in-energy-lawsuit/

https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-copper-mine-arizona-2649042685.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/25/BC-Profs-Protest-Publisher-Dropping-Mining-Book/

Plastic

U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds

Endangered animals get entangled in plastics that riddle US oceans – study | Environment | The Guardian

https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-acidification-plastic-polllution-2648847023.html

https://worldanimalnews.com/breaking-new-report-by-oceana-finds-that-plastic-is-responsible-for-entangling-choking-1800-marine-animals-in-u-s-waters/

Telecom & Electronic

Tourism

Study calls for ban and phasing out of scrubbers to protect the oceans – Offshore Energy

Tech & Media

5G Fund for Rural America Hands Over U.S. Farms to Big Tech, Critics Say • Children’s Health Defense

Corporate Media Reverse Reality by Blaming BLM Protesters for Everything — FAIR

Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs

U.S. Military Responsible for Widespread PFAS Pollution in Japan

Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful • Children’s Health Defense

New Research Adds Evidence That Glyphosate Disrupts Hormones • Children’s Health Defense

Genetic engineering still failing to increase crop yields

Gates Foundation Initiative Claims to ‘Empower’ Small Farmers, But Will Actually Enrich Corporations • Children’s Health Defense

Dear Joe Biden: are you kidding me? | Erin Brockovich | Opinion | The Guardian

Investigation Shows How Pesticide Giants Are Marketing Their Products as a Climate Solution • Children’s Health Defense

What You Should Know About Genetically Engineered Salmon | Earthjustice

Are industrial chemicals killing rare whales and familiar dolphins?

Tell EPA: Stop Approving Dangerous Pesticide Products

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/epa-widely-used-pesticide-atrazine-likely-harms-more-1000-endangered-species-2020-11-05/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-science-food-safety-at-risk/

https://www.ecowatch.com/atrazine-harms-endangered-species-2648937774.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

https://theintercept.com/2020/11/17/pfas-pollution-new-jersey-solvay/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/17/pet-flea-treatments-poisoning-rivers-across-england-scientists-find

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/aspartame-serious-health-problems/

Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports

EU-subsidies for bullfighting scrapped – Party for the Animals

Their zoo dreams spurned, Grand Bend’s big cat couple set their sights on a new town | CBC News

FOUR PAWS International – Posts

New Zealand rodeo: Animals ‘throttled, given electric shocks, punched and slammed to ground in violent scenes’ | The Independent

“Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition” | Psychology Today Canada

FOUR PAWS International – Posts

Almost 200 greyhounds were euthanised during the last racing season | 1 NEWS | TVNZ

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/rodeo-new-zealand-cowboy-calves-bulls-horses-b1622635.html

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/wildlife-biodiversity/new-study-shows-that-big-mammals-suffer-brain-damage-in-captivity-74222

Money, Banking, Investment

Activists hijack HSBC climate advertising

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

TD Bank says it will not finance oil and gas activities in the Arctic | Reuters

Polluting investments not in our name

Climate activists target Welshpool banks

Extinction Rebellion launches campaign of financial disobedience | Environment | The Guardian

Indigenous grandfather files human rights complaint over bank branch visit arrest in Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Is Awesome

The Big Banks’ Green Bafflegab | The Tyee

‘Nature is next’: Q&A with Finance for Biodiversity’s Simon Zadek

BofA Says It Won’t Finance Arctic Oil and Gas Exploration – Bloomberg

https://fundourfuture.uk/2020/10/30/barclays-and-hsbc-have-no-plan-to-exit-tar-sands/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/12/thermal-coal-firms-climate-pledge-report-paris-goals

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/safety-deposit-boxes-missing-contents-1.5814592