Industry Ecocide Global — May 2021

Energy: Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity

How the global steel industry is cutting out coal | The Narwhal

We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia | Salon.com

Cities’ Climate Conundrum: How to Shift From Gas to Electric? – Mother Jones

Line 5 pipeline a ‘ticking time bomb,’ must be shut down by next week, Michigan governor’s office says – The Globe and Mail

Who stands to benefit from building a transmission line under Lake Erie? | rabble.ca

Shell shock after XR not guilty verdict

Wyoming Threatens to Sue States That Won’t Buy its Coal – Mother Jones

‘Silence Speaks Very Loudly’ as Solar Replaces Diesel for Yukon First Nation – The Energy Mix

https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/more-details-about-falcon-pipeline-investigation-emerge/662333.html

Indonesia says no new coal plants from 2023 (after the next 100 or so)

Biden Administration Approves First Major Offshore Wind Farm In The US | IFLScience

Line 5 pipeline: How did we get here and what it means for Canada | Globalnews.ca

The Real Reason Why Shell Aims for ‘Net-Zero’

New UCS Research: Utilities’ Uneconomic Coal Use Is Being Called Out in 25 States – Union of Concerned Scientists

The Brutal Legal Odyssey of Jessica Ernst Comes to an End | The Tyee

Fossil Fuel Interests Caught Peddling Propaganda to Schoolchildren – Mother Jones

ExxonMobil blames climate change on the public by using ‘misleading’ language, researchers say | CBC Radio

How a lack of insurance is a growing threat to the oilsands | CBC News

Oil Giant Enbridge Defies Line 5 Pipeline Shutdown Order, Faces Profit Seizures | Earthjustice

Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve – Rolling Stone

Exxon scrambles to stave off dissidents as board fight nears climax | CBC News

Activist Investor Wins Exxon Board Seats In Day Of Reckoning For Big Oil | OilPrice.com

ExxonMobil and Chevron suffer shareholder rebellions over climate | ExxonMobil | The Guardian

Exxon, Shell, and Chevron All Lose Big on Climate in Just 1 Day

The clean energy revolution is here – and the oil patch is missing it | Corporate Knights

Moody’s: Credit Risk Is Growing For Big Oil | OilPrice.com

https://www.ecowatch.com/fossil-fuel-companies-greenwashing-ads-2652900405.html

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/natural-gas-biomass-now-deadlier-than-coal/?itm_term=home

https://act.nrdc.org/letter/big-cypress-panther-170821

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2021/05/10/numbers-big-oil-made-like-bandits-pandemic/

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2021/05/10/pipeline-shutdown-looms-as-international-battle-continues/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/michigan-governor-enbridge-line5-shutdown

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/adb-declares-coal-exit-in-asia-pacific-but-gas-remains-in-play/

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/greening-news/2021/05/postmedias-cozy-relationship-fossil-fuel-industry

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/greening-news/2021/05/how-can-we-reform-canadas-petro-friendly-media

https://in-sights.ca/2021/05/10/expansion-of-natural-gas-infrastructure-and-usage-is-incompatible/

https://www.ehn.org/line-3-minnesota-2652795873.html

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2021/05/11/coal-shouldnt-neighbourhoods-heres-one-b-c-community-fought-back/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/its-time-to-kick-gas

https://shipandbunker.com/news/world/264091-ikea-rejects-lng-for-shipping

https://www.ecowatch.com/exxonmobil-climate-misinformation-2653013732.html

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/17/chevron-steven-donziger-trial/

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2021/05/18/shell-keeps-hiding-behind-canadas-big-oil-lobby/

https://www.ecowatch.com/international-energy-agency-fossil-fuels-climate-2653023817.html

https://biv.com/article/2021/05/iea-declares-golden-age-natural-gas-lng-over

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/05/21/International-Energy-Agency-Annihilates-Chance-Fossil-Fuel/

https://www.ecowatch.com/biden-alaska-drilling-2653127441.html

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158649686634221/

Pharma, Medical, Veterinary, Animal Testing,

Hawaii To Become Sixth State to End Cosmetic Animal Testing | VegNews

U.S. Senators Reintroduce The AFTER Act; A Bill To Ensure That Retired U.S. Government Lab Animals Find Forever Homes – World Animal News

Breaking! Hawaii To Be The Next State To Ban Testing On Animals For Cosmetics; Sign Petition To Pass Federal Legislation As Well – World Animal News

Pfizer Reaps Hundreds of Millions in Profits From COVID Vaccine + More • Children’s Health Defense

Does Big PhRma Know No Shame? Profiteering While People Die by the Hundreds of Thousands – CounterPunch.org

USDA now only partially inspects some lab animal facilities, internal documents reveal | Science | AAAS

Inside the Secret Mental Health Crisis of People Who Kill Animals for Science

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-lied-protect-vaccine-profits-over-public-health/?itm_term=home

https://fair.org/home/government-money-thats-gone-into-vaccine-development-is-being-privatized-by-a-handful-of-companies/

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopuses-not-recognized-as-animals-according-to-welfare-act-dictating-lab-treatment/

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/how-outdated-fda-drug-testing-rules-hurt-puppies-patients-and-pharma-companies/

Industrial Crop Farming

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

Belgium-sized swath of forest faces the chop from Indonesian palm oil

Indonesian omnibus law’s ‘whitewash’ of illegal palm oil shocks its architects

Sri Lanka to ban palm oil imports, raze plantations over environmental concerns

Behind the scenes video unveils water contamination by ‘sustainable’ Amazon palm oil

To save chocolate’s future, ‘start now and go big’ on agroforestry (commentary)

Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Denver Zoo’s Sloth Exhibit Teaches Visitors About Palm Oil

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

Industrial farming is driving the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, says leading academic | The Independent | The Independent

Book Review: ‘Planet Palm’ reveals a world map stained by red oil

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/rallying-the-public-to-save-bolivias-forests-qa-with-gina-mendez/

https://www.ecowatch.com/understanding-biodiversity-2653049258.html

Animal Breeding, Ranching, Factory Farming, Puppy Mills

Deforestation-free beef stymied by Brazil’s unequal supply chain

Canadians want transparency, not secrecy, from factory farmers – iPolitics

Animal Equality Leads in Effort to Ban Chick-Culling in Brazil | Animal Equality | International Animal Protection Organization

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Study shows more than half of Cerrado’s cattle pasture can be restored

Bridger-Teton National Forest Proposal Threatens Grazing Allotment Retirements – CounterPunch.org

Saving the Spotted Frog From Grazing Livestock: a Good Beginning in Oregon – CounterPunch.org

Germany To Make Culling Of Male Chicks In Meat Industry Illegal From 2022 | IFLScience

Factory Farms are a Deadly Nuisance – CounterPunch.org

Mexican Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Mayan Community, Suspends 49,000 Hog Farm | Earthjustice

WATCH: “Motherhood,” A Glimpse Into the Lives of Mother Pigs in the Meat Industry

H5N8 Bird Flu Strain Found In 46 Countries Could Spark “Disastrous Pandemics,” Scientists Warn | IFLScience

Rescuing Sick and Dying Animals From Factory Farms Is the ‘Right Thing To Do’ For Activist Wayne Hsiung

24 animals seized from Kamloops breeder previously convicted of animal cruelty – Goldstream News Gazette

Urge Petco and PetSmart to Stop Selling Live Birds

INVESTIGATION: Pregnant Cows Killed in Brazillian Slaughterhouses | Animal Equality | International Animal Protection Organization

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pigs-farm-animal-cruelty-scotland-b1840471.html

https://theecologist.org/2021/may/10/my-secret-life-killing-zone

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/rallying-the-public-to-save-bolivias-forests-qa-with-gina-mendez/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-illegal-forest-conversion-for-industrial-ag-worsens-this-moment-is-pivotal-commentary/https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-illegal-forest-conversion-for-industrial-ag-worsens-this-moment-is-pivotal-commentary/

https://spca.bc.ca/ways-to-help/take-action/stop-funding-fur-farming/

https://animaljustice.ca/blog/new-report-questions-biosecurity-as-justification-for-ag-gag-laws

https://www.ecowatch.com/south-africa-bans-breeding-lions-2653136637.html

https://mercyforanimals.org/blog/grizzly-bear-killed/

Fisheries, Fish Farming, Marine Life

Popular opposition halts a bridge project in a Philippine coral haven

Absorbent and yellow and … mobile? Sea sponges on the move in Arctic Ocean

New Australian marine parks protect area twice Great Barrier Reef’s size

On an island scarred by tin mining, mangrove planting preserves shrimp tradition

Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light

Farmed Salmon is Actually Grey. The Pink Coloring is Added. And 70% of Salmon is Farmed.

Chile’s marine protected areas aren’t safe from its salmon farms

Breaking! California To End Commercial Crab Fishery Season Early To Avoid Whale Entanglements – World Animal News

Activists Accuse Atlantic Sapphire Salmon Farm of Animal Cruelty | Miami New Times

Commercial fishing vessel found guilty for fishing in culturally significant area off Haida Gwaii

Waiting for sockeye smolts! – alexandra morton

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/how-do-we-manage-fisheries-in-the-midst-of-climate-change-qa-with-edfs-eric-schwaab/

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/05/fukushima-radioactive-water-dump-plan-disregards-lives-of-marine-animals/

https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-pollution-heat-beaches-marine-life-2653104016.html

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/how-aquaculture-is-spreading-a-salmon-virus/

Hunting, Trapping, Wildlife Trafficking

(1) Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) – Posts | Facebook

Stop the Senseless Killing of Gentle Giraffes – ForceChange

A new campaign aims to stop the deluge of hunts attacking cats, dogs and farmed animals – The Citro

Wealth inequality fuels flow of wildlife from poor countries to rich: Study

Breaking! Four Poachers, Including A Former SANParks Ranger, Receive Prison Sentences For Killing Rhinos In Kruger National Park – World Animal News

G20 leaders urged at Global Health Summit to take bold action to prevent future pandemics

Hunters allowed to shoot extinction-threatened turtle doves – Channel 4 News

Vinnie Jones posts photo of 100 foxes ‘he shot dead’ on Twitter (before deleting it) | The Independent | The Independent

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

New bill seeks to end Hong Kong’s days as an illegal wildlife trade hub

Wall of silence from police, Minister Ian Borg over whether his advisor was caught trapping illegally

Tale of two traffickers is a rare spell of Congolese conservation convictions

Canadian woman arrested at U.S. border with three-toed sloth, crocodile parts – Goldstream News Gazette

https://www.ecowatch.com/wildlife-trade-countries-rich-poor-2652900825.html

https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-justice-for-mother-bear-shot-and-killed-leaving-her-cub-to-die-in-her-den/

https://worldanimalnews.com/breaking-international-anti-poaching-foundation-ranger-seriously-injured-in-suspected-revenge-attack/

https://faunalytics.org/inside-the-illegal-wildlife-trade-a-pangolins-perspective/

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/dozens-of-bear-paws-their-claws-removed-dumped-roadside-next-to-shuswap-lake

Consumer Goods Manufacturers & Sellers, Construction, Building

(1) Anti-Fur Society UK – Posts | Facebook

Coronavirus: Why so many Americans are skipping their second COVID-19 shot | CTV News

Death toll rises to 10 after landslide at dam site in orangutan habitat

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/casinos-condos-and-sugar-cane-how-a-cambodian-national-park-is-being-sold-down-the-river/

Logging & Mining

Water crisis in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara linked to mining, observers say

Indonesian law enforcers call for financial approach to fight illegal logging

Trafficking of banned Myanmar teak lands German company with $4m fine

FSC-certified Indonesian logger may have cleared orangutan habitat: Report

Mindful mining?

Brazil’s environment minister investigated for alleged illegal timber sales

Groundbreaking New Documentary ‘River Of Gold’ Highlights The Destruction That The Amazon Rainforest Is Facing Due To Gold Mining – World Animal News

Brazil court orders illegal miners booted from Yanomami Indigenous Reserve

Illegal loggers use pandemic as cover to ramp up activity in Sulawesi

Brazil aerial photos show miners’ devastation of indigenous people’s land | Global development | The Guardian

https://www.ecowatch.com/biodiversity-paramos-columbia-2652859809.html

https://www.facebook.com/rollingjusticebus/photos/a.1634627923419346/2847865538762239

https://yvesengler.com/2021/05/09/ugly-canadian-mining-policies-continue-with-trudeau/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/after-gold-miners-shoot-yanomani-people-brazil-cuts-environmental-regulation-further/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/big-and-bad-national-forest-clearcuts-continue/

https://thenarwhal.ca/blueberry-river-first-nations-bc-landscape/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/17/forest-service-halts-huge-clearcutting-plan-next-to-yellowstone-national-park-that-threatened-grizzlies-lynx-2/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/teal-jones-brink-violating-wildlife-act-risks-destroying-fragile-western-screech-owl-forests

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2019-june/on-river-s-banks-tribe-defends-its-heritage-from-mining-threats

https://theecologist.org/2021/may/25/we-cant-mine-our-way-out-climate-crisis

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/specter-of-tailings-disaster-looms-after-spill-at-canadian-firms-brazil-mine/

Plastic

Over 47 tons of plastic found at US marine reserve – and an entangled seal | Hawaii | The Guardian

Canada Declares Plastics Toxic, Paving the Way for Restrictions – Mother Jones

Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals | Plastics | The Guardian

Microplastics Are Now Accumulating On Honeybees | IFLScience

Big Plastic’s revenge: Dow, Nova and Imperial Oil sue the federal government for protecting the environment – Environmental Defence

https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-pollution-heat-beaches-marine-life-2653104016.html

Telecom & Electronic

Telecom Giants Spent Millions on Secret Campaign to Influence FCC’s Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules • Children’s Health Defense

These Disguised Cell Towers Couldn’t Fool Anyone, Could They? | Sierra Club

Tourism

Floating Graveyards: Let’s Not Revive the Cruise Industry – CounterPunch.org

Tech & Media

How Bitcoin Mining Keeps Old Fossil-Fuel Plants Alive – Mother Jones

Postmedia’s cozy relationship with the fossil-fuel industry | rabble.ca

How can we reform Canada’s petro-friendly media? | rabble.ca

Click here to plant a tree: Q&A with Ecosia’s Pieter van Midwood

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors | Ars Technica

https://forcechange.com/585252/stop-animals-from-being-killed-tortured-and-eaten-alive-on-youtube/

https://www.ecowatch.com/facebook-climate-misinformation-2652988295.html

Chemicals, Pesticides, GMOs

Court Rules EPA Evaded Duty to Protect Public From Pesticide

Fox cub named ‘Sticky’ rescued after being stuck in deadly glue trap

From Fish to Wrappers, PFAS Contaminate the Food System – Food Tank

80 Groups Blast U.S. for Interfering With Mexico’s Plan to Ban Glyphosate and GMO Corn • Children’s Health Defense

EU Court Upholds Ban on Bayer’s Bee-Killing Pesticides in Landmark Ruling Against ‘Powerful Multinationals’ • Children’s Health Defense

6 More Lawsuits Filed Against Syngenta Over Pesticide That Causes Parkinsons, First Trial Set for Today • Children’s Health Defense

USDA May Allow Genetically Modified Trees to be Released Into the Wild – CounterPunch.org

EU Court Upholds Ban on Bayer’s Bee-Killing Pesticides in Landmark Ruling Against ‘Powerful Multinationals’ • Children’s Health Defense

Pesticides Are Killing Soil Organisms — The Foundations of the Web of Life • Children’s Health Defense

Radioactive Honey Preserves the Legacy of Nuclear Testing – Gastro Obscura

Chemical Giants Misled FDA, Consumers on Health Impact of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Food Packaging • Children’s Health Defense

Pesticides Threaten the ‘Foundations of the Web of Life,’ New Soil Study Warns – EcoWatch

EPA Watchdog Report: Senior Staffers in Trump EPA Changed, Omitted Science During 2018 Review of Dicamba; Skipped Internal Peer-Review Process

BREAKING: Judge Torpedos Bayer’s Plan to Skirt Legal Liability in Roundup Cancer Cases, Citing ‘Glaring Flaws’ • Children’s Health Defense

We Can’t Talk About Regenerative Ag Without Talking About Pesticides | Sierra Club

Mexican Judge Rejects Industry Bid To Halt GMO Corn & Glyphosate Ban – Dr. Rath Health Foundation

Pesticides Threaten the ‘Foundations of the Web of Life,’ New Soil Study Warns

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/industrial-diets-are-imprinting-on-human-bodies-new-study-finds/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/12/poisoning-the-planets-web-of-life/

Animal Entertainment, Racing, Bloodsports

Former Circus Elephants Settle Into Refuge Home

Blow to greyhound racing as tourism body pulls the plug on promotion

MPI won’t chase greyhound trainer whose dog ingested meth and won race | Stuff.co.nz

Kentucky Derby winner fails post-race drug test | CTV News

Attention Greyhound Rescue and Animal Welfare Groups – CAGED NationWide

Tell Disney Rodeo Torture is Not Entertainment

Breaking! Missing Houston Tiger Has Been Found Unharmed & Relocated To The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch Sanctuary In Texas – World Animal News

Trainer caught on CCTV hitting and kicking whales in Russia | Daily Mail Online

Big Cat Public Safety Act: Owning big cats as house pets might become illegal in the US – CNN

PETITION: Justice for Bonanza the Dog Shot in Eye and Barbecued Over A Fire

Animal Races Are Anything But Entertaining — and Why They Need to Stop – One Green Planet

Free Polar Bears From Torture Chamber – ForceChange

Animal Haven Zoo’s tiger cub passed around at local elementary and high school

Lion tamer brutally attacked in Russian circus show

Greyhound trainer whose dog tested positive for meth says life has been ‘living nightmare’ ever since | 1 NEWS | TVNZ

Calgary Stampede unveils 2021 plans, chuckwagons won’t roll this year | CTV News

Greyhound racing hasn’t been unfairly singled out and it’s time we stopped wasting public cash on it – Independent.ie

Moosomin Downs announcement of new race track ‘rescuing’ the horse race industry in the province | CTV News

https://forcechange.com/585252/stop-animals-from-being-killed-tortured-and-eaten-alive-on-youtube/

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/south-africa-pulls-the-plug-on-controversial-captive-lion-industry/

https://www.worldanimalprotection.ca/news/dolphins-captivity-endure-seven-stages-suffering-their-tragic-lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAj3j47rx5U

Money, Banking, Investment

Fossilized Finance: How Canada’s banks enable oil and gas production | Corporate Mapping Project

Canada’s big banks hindering progress on climate change | Corporate Mapping Project

Postmedia Tells Shareholders $35 Million in Federal Government Handouts is Now a ‘Key Pillar’ of Its Business Strategy

Canadian universities on a long road to fossil fuel divestment | Corporate Knights

ESG BS detector: iShares Low Carbon ETF | Corporate Knights

canada pension plan investment board | rabble.ca

Coast Protectors – Posts | Facebook

A short history of responsible investing | Corporate Knights

98% of Bunge shareholders back proposal to reduce deforestation

Knight Bites: Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street knee-deep in dirty investments | Corporate Knights

Transportation, Shipping

The dirty truth about ship scrubbers | Stand.earth