Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers
Cross-posted from the New York Times By IAN URBINA The American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century’s gold...
View ArticleVideo: Damocracy
January 10, 2013. Source: International Rivers DAMOCRACY is an international movement striving to debunk the myth of dams as clean energy. While large dam projects worldwide are promoted as sources of...
View ArticleTwo great lakes hit lowest water level on record, dams, dredging proposed as...
Note: More hopelessly misguided false solutions to dealing with the impacts of a changing climate… -The GJEP Team By John Flesher, AP, February 6, 2013. Source: Boston.com Two of the Great Lakes have...
View ArticleAs dams loom, Mekong fishermen fear for their future
By Agence-France Presse, August 4, 2013. Source: France 24 The waters of the mighty Mekong have sustained generations of families but nowadays its fishermen often find their nets empty and fear...
View ArticleLillooet First Nation blocks construction threatening Seton River salmon runs
By The Canadian Press, January 17, 2014. Source: Vancouver Sun Members of a First Nation in Lillooet have set up a blockade near that Fraser River district to protest work they believe is destroying...
View ArticleAlaska Natives and First Nations unite to fight mining threat to salmon habitat
By Paula Dobbyn, May 2, 2014. Source: Indian Country Today It has become an all-too-familiar story: Pristine waters. Salmon habitat. Sacred significance. Mining. The Unuk River watershed, straddling...
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