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Climate Activists Push UK Govt to Kill New Mining and Oil Rig Jobs
WHITEHAVEN, England (AP) – In the patchwork of hills, lakes, and sea that makes up England’s northwest corner, most people see beauty.Dave Cradduck sees broken dreams.
Still No Justice for Killing of South African Mining Activist
One year ago Fikile Ntshangase, an environmental activist from South Africa, was gunned down in her home in Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal province, after raising concerns about a coal mine in the area.
Pete Buttigieg to Attend U.N. Climate Summit amid Supply Chain Crisis
Thirteen members of President Joe Biden’s cabinet are heading to Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nation’s climate summit later this month, while the nation remains in the midst of a migrant crisis at the southern border and a supply chain crisis at U.S. ports.
The climate summit
Russian Activist Imprisoned for Peaceful Environmental Protests
Yesterday, a court in the city of Kolomna, Russia sentenced Viacheslav Yegorov to 15 months in prison for repeatedly taking part in peaceful protests in 2018 against the “import” of trash from Moscow. It is ironic that this sentence came less than a week after the UN Human Rights Council
Miners Stage Protest as EU Moves to Kill Coal Jobs for Green Agenda
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers staged a protest on Wednesday to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions. Buses carried protesters from across Bulgaria for the rally in downtown Sofia, where demonstrators
BEST OF OFFG: “Free speech, censorship & the right to be wrong…”
Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays, or because they take on added significance in a ‘post-covid’ world.
Catte’s article has taken on a new context and new significance
UN Rights Bodies Take Strong Stance on Climate Crisis
Less than three weeks ahead of the global COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow, two key United Nations human rights bodies in Geneva have taken action to strengthen the human rights framework around the climate crisis.
California’s Gavin Newsom Bans Gas-Powered Landscaping Equipment
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill No.
Michigan Gas Prices Soar to 2021 High, Averaging $3.33 per Gallon
Michigan gas prices have soared to a 2021 high, as the average gallon of unleaded gas in the state registers at $3.33.
Vatican Foreign Minister Calls for ‘Fiscal Redistribution’ to Fight Inequality
ROME, Italy — Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher has called for increased redistribution as a necessary means of overcoming economic inequality, the Catholic News Service reported Wednesday. In his address before a high-level U.N. meeting on inequality and prosperity, Archbishop Gallagher asserted that “fighting rampant inequality cannot be achieved
Oil Reaches $80 per Barrel for First Time Since 2014
Oil reached $80 a barrel Friday, a seven-year-high that threatens to increase energy costs for millions of Americans at the gas pump and during the upcoming winter heating season.
George Monbiot’s Far-Right Projection
George Monbiot is shocked.
But what has shocked George is not the rising tide of poverty and starvation in the world or the unprecedented transfer of wealth to a tiny number of oligarchs.
He is not shocked by the practical collapse of the rule of law or by the brutal
UN Rights Body Should Act to Recognize Right to a Healthy Environment
When the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet spoke to the UN Human Rights Council at the beginning of its current session, three weeks ago, she told governments: “Addressing the world's triple environmental crisis is a humanitarian imperative, a human rights imperative, a peace-building imperative, and a
With the Climate Summit Straight Ahead, the UK Takes a Wrong Turn
“Grow up!”, Boris Johnson told world leaders in his address to the United Nations.