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Topic: Go now and do likewise
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shura Knowflake Posts: 798 From: Registered: Jun 2009
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posted December 08, 2013 12:59 PM
The land of the free and the brave has become the Evil Empire, and its citizens are being schooled all over the world in the art of resistance and revolt. We were rebels, too, once. http://rt.com/news/chevron-fracking-protest-clashes-884/ Romanians in the tiny farming village of Barlad have been protesting the promises of "progress" since early this summer, when the Romanian government announced and agreement with Chevron to mine shale gas from the ground. Initially, Prime Minister Victor Ponta's centre-left coalition publicly deplored the previous government's decision to grant shale gas concessions. Ponta even went so far as to put a moratorium on drilling. But the moratorium expired in December 2012. Since then, the PM and President Traian Basescu emerged overnight as some of Europe's most devout worshippers of hydraulic fracking. Here's what stands out. In one of the EU's poorest countries, respect for the environment is not a view held by the elite and impressed upon the voting public. Instead, the arrows go from the grassroots upward. Sustainable development is a position embraced by many villagers, peasants, and Romanian middle-class residents who remember the environmental degradations of communism and who live close enough to the land to value it more than the paper money they know is subject to the vagaries of politics and economic development. http://alturl.com/e8vjx IP: Logged |
Catalina Knowflake Posts: 947 From: shamballa Registered: Aug 2013
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posted December 08, 2013 11:05 PM
As I see it the grassroots here at home are trying to do the same thing...and the elites have only partly jumped on the bandwagon. Fracking is a major c oncern topic which the Carbon Cops largely try to ignore.And the most vehement anti-clean-energy politicians are furious that Obama has held up the XLpipeline as long as he has. I consider his record on the environment patchy and mediocre for the most part but thank god for the few efforts he has stuck with, aming them investing in solar/wind and stalling the tar sands behemoth. But he has not stopped the advancing arctic drilling or fracking both of which are v ery scary prospects..despite many grassroot protests which are ongoing, or the continued growth of land coverage by fuel-destined corn which is part and parcel of the monsanto nightmare. Canada's first nations are getting more and more active in their efforts to block all of these, and the growing disaster that its the tarsands project...as are our own "first brothers". IP: Logged | |