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Sea Shepherd: Prosecute Japan over whaling and we will withdraw Paul Watson for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has offered to withdraw from the current campaign against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary if either the Australian or New Zealand Government agrees to take Japan to court over the whaling issue. He said that if the Australian and New Zealand Government had serious concerns for human safety in regard to confrontations between conservationists and whalers then they should make a proper legal challenge....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 6:31pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 01/12/06 
On Friday(01/06/06) in Gardiner, the National Park Service (NPS) was busy harassing wild buffalo, protecting livestock interests instead of the flora and fauna they are mandated by the American people to protect. Park Rangers came out on horseback, dressed in cowboy finery, just miles from the hunt zone, and forced wild buffalo off of their winter range. Two groups were hazed into the Park and then the rangers picked up another large group that had never even left the Park's boundaries....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 1:45am PST
Global warming: Today's news of the world Global warming has triggered the decline of hundreds of species of frogs and toads by helping a deadly skin infection to spread across the world....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:51am PST
Earthjustice Opposes Judge Alito’s Nomination to the Supreme Court Today, Earthjustice joined four other national environmental groups in announcing formal opposition to the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito Jr. to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court. This is the first time in nearly 20 years that Earthjustice has opposed a Supreme Court nominee....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:40am PST
Feinstein Grills Alito on Rulings in Key Environmental Cases Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court has also raised concerns among environmentalists. Greenpeace, the National Environmental Trust, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club have all publicly opposed Alito's confirmation....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:36am PST
Sea Shepherd: Japanese whaling fleet is a criminal operation The Sea Shepherd continues to follow the Japanese whaling fleet. Following the collision of the Nisshin Maru and Arctic Sunrise on January 8, the Japanese factory ship fled the scene at high speed. Whaling has recommenced on January 11,with Greenpeace activists disrupting the hunt. Here follows a report from Captain Paul Watson on board the Sea Shepherd Conservation Ship, Farley Mowat steaming toward the location of the Nisshin Maru factory ship....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 6:59am PST
Japanese Whaling launches Consumer Boycotts and a Union Blackban 
The Nisshin Maru whaling factory ship has stopped and the hunters are out hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Once again Greenpeace activists have put their inflatable zodiacs into the water to try and form a human shield between harpoon and whale. Tensions are higher after the collision of the Nisshin Maru and Arctic Sunrise. Maybe there are things which people on dry land can do as well, such as boycotting Gordon's seafood products, and products of other companies invested in by ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 6:19am PST
Sea Shepherd threatens to Ram and Disable Pirate Whalers 
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is planning to escalate the whaling confrontation by ramming and disabling ships of the Japanese whaling fleet to stop the illegal and ruthless slaughter of whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, and has already sideswiped a Japanese whaling supply ship, the Oriental Bluebird....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 8:28pm PST
China's Pollution Poses Security Threat in Asia As pollution and environmental degradation in China worsens, the Communist government has been unable or unwilling to prescribe measures needed to address the problem....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 7:16am PST
First Tribal Permit Used in Montana's Yellowstone Bison Hunt 
GARDINER, MONTANA. In spite of continuous national public outcry calling for Montana to cancel its controversial bison hunt, the state's zero-tolerance policy against the country's last wild bison continues. Two more bull bison were killed in Gardiner on Saturday, just outside the boundary of Yellowstone National Park. The shooters included a man from Belgrade and a man from the Little Shell Tribe....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:17pm PST
Japanese Whaling Supply ship sideswiped and chased by Sea Shepherd 
In the latest drama between whalers and conservationists, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship, the Farley Mowat, has ordered the whaling supply ship, Oriental Bluebird, to leave the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. When they refused to comply, the Farley Mowat slammed their starboard hull against the starboard hull of the Oriental Bluebird. The Farley Mowat is persuing the supply ship out of the whale sanctuary....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 7:46am PST
Japanese Whaling Ship rams Greenpeace vessel 
After three days of obstructing the whale hunt by placing inflatable zodiacs between whales and the harpoon, the Nisshin Maru rammed the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise. The whalers are counter claiming their ship was rammed by Greenpeace. The collision ocurred in the Australian Antarctic Territory in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Nisshin Maru has continued north at full speed, with the three conservationists ships in pursuit....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 6:22am PST
The Mileage-Per-Gallon Fraud After buying a hybrid a few months ago, I soon learned that the car was not achieving the projected miles per gallon. I heard from others that all cars fall below the EPA estimated gas mileage, but in my case the numbers were not even close. Fortunately, the current issue of Sierra magazine provides the details behind EPA’s misleading estimates, and the situation is even worse than suspected. How does the auto industry get away with this fraud, and why do legislators stand for it?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:40am PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 01/05/05 2006 began on a bitter note along Yellowstone's northern boundary. On New Years Day, in Gardiner, the 17th bull bison was killed in Montana's illegitimate bison hunt....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 2:19pm PST
Slave Revolt Radio: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Slave Revolt Radio 12-25-05 (ruins of empire) segment
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, how the Corporate
engineered state is literally planting the seeds of
their own destruction....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 6:22am PST
The Slaughter of an Exhausted Whale Calf 
The Japanese whaling fleet has recommenced the whale hunt and slaughter after an absence of 11 days. In that time the fleet has fled over 3,000 nautical miles from the far east of the whaling area to the far west. Greenpeace activists again disrupted the whale hunt on 5 January by enabling many whales to escape. Andrew, from the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, tells the story of one hunt and how the harpoonist needed only one good shot. Eventually an exhausted whale calf was hit by the grenade ti...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 4:00am PST
Big Mountain, Black Mesa Struggle Continues/Spring Caravan from the Bay & NCoast RIGHT NOW there is an amendment on the congressional floor that sets a new
timetable for the forced relocation of a number of indigenous Navajo families on
Black Mesa. This bill, S1003, comes at a time when the world's largest coal
company, Peabody Coal, prepares not only to continue, but in fact to
expand its strip mining of American Indian lands.
# This spring a caravan will be traveling to Black Mesa from Northern
California and the San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 12:27am PST
Biodiesel Bulletin Temporary Waiver Granted for B2 Requirement in Minnesota
Two Weeks Left to Register for Biodiesel Conference
Biodiesel Projects Funded Through USDA, USB
First Biodiesel Plant a Reality for Indiana
World Energy Wins Platts Energy Distinction
Bonnie Raitt Raises Money for Biodiesel Outreach in Tennessee
Biodiesel On and Off the Clock: Willamette Valley Vineyards...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:14pm PST
Greenpeace finds and engages the whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean 
1st Photo Credit: Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza in pursuit of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru in the Southern Ocean. Greenpeace is using every peaceful means available to bring the hunt to an early end and make it the last time the Sanctuary is breached by the whalers....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 7:32pm PST
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