Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electric
Oilsands Face Deep Trouble As ‘Death Toll’ Rings For Gasoline | HuffPost Canada
Dakota Access Pipeline Activists Face 110 Years in Prison
50 km Stretch of Great Barrier Reef to be Cleared for Coal Ship ‘Express Lane’ | iSeekplant
Adani coalmine: Axis Capital withdraws bid to insure Carmichael rail line | Business | The Guardian
Shell Oil Corporation Burning Gas For Months Because They Can’t Sell It
Norwegian pension fund delists 4 Alberta firms as it exits oilsands investments | CBC News
Brazil deploys 5,000 troops as fury mounts at inaction over worst oil spill in country’s history
California power utility says 2.1 million people may lose power in planned shutoffs | CBC News
No New Fracking in Texas National Forests, Toledo Bend Lake
U.S. Wants to Dredge San Francisco Bay to Aid Oil Shipping | KQED Science
Coal power plants flourish in the Philippines despite ‘climate emergency’
Special Report: The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards | Earthjustice
Palmer coal mine dwarfs Adani | The Saturday Paper
PG&E diverted safety money for profit, bonuses – SFGate
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost U.S. More than Defense Budget: IMF Report – Rolling Stone
General Motors Sides With Trump in Emissions Fight, Splitting the Industry – The New York Times
Court Blocks Trump’s Plan to Ease Bird Protections on Oil Lands – The New York Times
A Sumatran forest community braces for battle against a planned coal mine
The oil lobby is lying. Canadian oil isn’t clean oil – Environmental Defence
Southern resident orcas and oil spills | The Journal of the San Juan Islands
TC Energy says Keystone pipeline spill in North Dakota contained – Reuters
Indigenous Mapuche pay high price for Argentina’s fracking dream | Environment | The Guardian
Dakota Access Pipeline Activists Face 110 Years in Prison
Investigation finds misuse of funds, scant oversight at Alberta Energy Regulator | Globalnews.ca
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs demand stop work order against CGL – Smithers Interior News
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Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells Dump Billions of Gallons of Oil Waste Into Gulf – EcoWatch
Exxon climate change lawsuit: Trial begins in New York on Tuesday – CBS News
Exxon and Oil Sands Go on Trial in New York Climate Fraud Case | InsideClimate News
Scientists reveal how the fossil fuel industry misled the public about climate change
Brazil oil spill: 2,000km of northern beaches contaminated | Brazil News | Al Jazeera
Commentary by Elizabeth May: We must end our reliance on fossil fuels | Times Colonist
The Aramco IPO will help destroy the planet, environmental groups warn – CNN
Greta has landed. Kenney’s tortured logic crumbles | National Observer
United We Roll prepares for Greta Thunberg – Red Deer Advocate
Shell CEO Says Blaming Oil Suppliers Won’t Solve Climate Change – Bloomberg
ExxonMobil CEO Depressed After Realizing Earth Could End Before They Finish Extracting All The Oil
Huge Explosion, Massive Fire Rips Through Crockett Refinery Storage Tanks – CBS San Francisco
The oil lobby is lying. Canadian oil isn’t clean oil – Environmental Defence
Tell EPA to protect communities against coal ash, not cater to industry – Earthjustice
Power to the People Means Making Electricity Generation Green and Local | The Tyee
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions | Environment | The Guardian
Google Made Large Contributions To Climate Change Deniers – Slashdot
Secretive national oil companies hold our climate in their hands | Environment | The Guardian
Fossil fuel firms’ social media fightback against climate action | Environment | The Guardian
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/31/exxon-mobil-massachusetts-climate-change-lawsuit-greenwashing/
California Governor Blames Greed, Not Climate Change, for Bay Area Blackouts – Mother Jones
Oil firms to pour extra 7m barrels per day into markets, data shows | Environment | The Guardian
New York AG Sues Exxon, Says Oil Giant Defrauded Investors Over Climate Change | InsideClimate News
French Guiana’s Amazon Reef threatened by Brazilian oil drilling – YouTube
Ethics watchdog pushes for ‘collusion’ probe of Conservatives, oil lobby | National Observer
PG&E Spent Billions on Lobbyists and PR Instead of Upgrades
Dark Money Is Pouring in To Protect the “Worst Energy Policy in the Country” – Mother Jones
Tell EPA to protect communities against coal ash, not cater to industry – Earthjustice
Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline | Environment | The Guardian
Pharma, Medical, Veterinary
‘We Can Assure Long-Term, Affordable Access to All Essential Medication’ | FAIR
Major Journal Warns Calling Breastfeeding “Natural” Will Discourage
French Drug Firm On Trial Over Weight Loss Pill Linked To 2,000 Deaths – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Our campaigns to end animal experiments worldwide | Cruelty Free International
Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills
Ireland’s Meat and Dairy Farmers Bring in Tobacco PR Firm to Tackle Image Problem | DeSmog UK
Quarter of world’s pig population ‘to die due to African swine fever’ | World news | The Guardian
Censored Landscapes – We Animals Media
Shocking pictures of dead animals killed in badger cull waiting to be burned – Mirror Online
Iowa Politicians Protect Meat Industry by Criminalizing Activists
Advocates agree: increasing kill line speeds puts animals and workers at risk
Fisheries, Marine Life
Adult orca dead after becoming entangled in fishing gear off northeast coast | CBC News
Philip Lymbery | HORRIFIC FOOTAGE EXPOSES FACTORY SALMON FARMING
Seafood company under investigation after allegations of animal abuse | Environment | The Guardian
The sea is running out of fish, despite nations’ pledges to stop
Fish farm politics continue to grow on the west coast – Adam Olsen, MLA
Victoria Buzz – Local. Informative. Entertainment. News.
Wildlife group reminds of pollution dangers after pelican hurt in B.C. lake
B.C. salmon industry withdraws from eco-label program | CTV News
Diver airlifted from salmon cleanup site in Fortune Bay, stop-work order issued | CBC News
B.C. company pleads guilty to importing rejected fish into U.S. | CTV News
Pacific Bluefin Tuna Fishing Proposals Jeopardize Recovery Efforts • The Revelator
Biologist and First Nation ‘devastated’ DFO will allow B.C. strain of virus in fish farms | The Star
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Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers
Report links major brands to illegal oil palm plantation in orangutan haven
Reports of Impossible Burger Health Reactions Lead to National Health
‘Usual suspects’: Nestle, Tim Hortons top Greenpeace litter list again | CTV News
The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
Hershey’s, Nestlé and Mars Are Still Using Child Labor on Cocoa Farms.
Why Costco Chicken Is a Massive Problem
Burger King Linked to a Whopping Million-Plus Acres of Deforestation | Sierra Club
China, EU are importing soybeans from unregistered Brazil farms: report
Nestlé, support a fair price for cocoa farmers!
https://www.ecowatch.com/toxic-metals-baby-food-2641003126.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
Food Companies Put Supply Chains Under a Microscope – WSJ
Costco is going to extremes to keep its rotisserie chickens at $4.99 – CNN
Reports of Impossible Burger Health Reactions Lead to National Health
New research into China’s fur trade shows consumer appetite for fur-fashions – ACTAsia
Logging & Mining
Two injured in Brazil dam burst – Mining Journal
Brazilian state complicit in violence against forest defenders, report says
EPA finds selenium from B.C. mines contaminating fish in Montana | The Narwhal
Companies ‘disregard responsibility’ over conflict minerals: Report
Romania forest murder as battle over logging turns violent – BBC News
Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area
Mineral exploration to ramp-up at Sudbury’s Wolf Lake | CBC News
Vaughn Palmer: Horgan taps Liberal ex-minister to rescue caribou rescue plan | Vancouver Sun
Peru Signs Agreement To End Deforestation Caused By Palm Oil By 2021
Seeking justice against palm oil firms, victims call out banks behind them
‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness
Toxic river: mining, mercury and murder continue to plague Colombia’s Atrato
Plastic
Microplastics may affect how Arctic sea ice forms and melts | The Narwhal
San Francisco microplastics study shows car tires biggest likely source – Los Angeles Times
The Story of Plastic: New Film Exposes the Source of Our Plastic Crisis – EcoWatch
Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
Will a push for plastics turn Appalachia into next ‘Cancer Alley’? | Environment | The Guardian
Formosa Plastics settles Lavaca Bay pollution case for $50 Million – Houston Chronicle
The Story of Plastic: New Film Exposes the Source of Our Plastic Crisis • The Revelator
The Plastics Industry’s Fight to Blame Pollution on You
Telecom & Electronic
Telcos prepare for 5G health backlash
Scientists warn 5G will have serious potential health effects | Business Recorder
We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe – Scientific American Blog Network
Imagining a 5G Future: Where Fantasy Does Not Meet Reality
Beware – Radiation From HP SSD Computers Cannot Be Turned Off – We Are The Evidence
HC orders removal of mobile towers from sensitive areas
We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe – Scientific American Blog Network
Japan abandoned the development of 5G networks for the health of citizens | Красная Армия
Tourism
Beautiful Refuge Under Threat From A Mega-Hotel Casino
Ayahuasca tourism an overlooked driver of trade in jaguar body parts, researchers say
Victoria motion suggests significant regulations for cruise industry within city
Tech & Social Media
We Can’t Find One Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to Dinner
Holding social media companies accountable for facilitating illegal wildlife trade (commentary)
Media Ignore Unmasking of Twitter Exec as British Psyops Officer | FAIR
Media Failed to Connect Climate Crisis and Utility Blackouts | FAIR
WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom | FAIR
Major Media Bury Groundbreaking Studies of Pentagon’s Massive Carbon Bootprint | FAIR
Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs,
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Germany To Ban Glyphosate From End Of 2023 – Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Study: Roundup Weedkiller at Low Levels May Be Factor in Aggressive Breast Cancer
Dead Bird Nests Contain 36 Different Pesticides, Including DDT
GMO FOODS ARE SET TO BE MISLABELLED AS “BIOFORTIFIED” – Healing Oracle
New FDA Report : 84 Percent of Fruit Samples, 53 Percent of Veggies Test Positive for Pesticides
Why we can’t run from ‘forever chemicals’ | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found in Artificial Turf
37 Million Bees Dead After GMO Seeds Planted Nearby – News Punch
New FDA Report : 84 Percent of Fruit Samples, 53 Percent of Veggies Test Positive for Pesticides
Defending Water Defending Life – YouTube
The Clean Water Case of the Century | Earthjustice
Special Report: The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards | Earthjustice
California finds widespread PFAS contamination in water sources – Los Angeles Times
Why Dr. Zach Bush believes herbicides could end life on Earth | Salon.com
Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company! | Dissident Voice
https://www.ecowatch.com/dairy-contamination-pfas-sludge-2640973890.html
Industrial Crop Farming
Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries
Child Labor in Your Chocolate? Check Our Chocolate Scorecard | Green America
‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out
Biosolids: mix human waste with toxic chemicals, then spread on crops | Environment | The Guardian
Racing, Gambling, Animal Fighting
Australian Slaughterhouse Destroys 300 Retired Racehorses for Meat in 22 Days | VegNews
Banking, Investments
Top investment banks provide billions to expand fossil fuel industry | Environment | The Guardian
Amazon Uprising: Defunding the Destruction
Firms ignoring climate crisis will go bankrupt, says Mark Carney | Environment | The Guardian