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Argentina’s Illegal Oil and Gas Waste Dumps Show ‘Dark Side’ of Vaca Muerta Drilling, Says Criminal Complaint

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 17 mins On December 21, 2020, environmental crimes investigators in the western Argentine province of Neuquén carried out a raid against a company that handles fracking waste in the heart of the Vaca Muerta shale basin, a booming oil and gas field in northern Patagonia.

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Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins “ It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area. .

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The government has made this crisis worse than it needed to be

Business Green

He is an authoritarian kleptocrat, an instigator of war crimes, and a brutal imperialist. The government's repeated failure to promote energy saving, enhance energy efficiency, and deliver more domestic energy generation is condemning the UK to an era of rolling crises.

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The climate crisis is a crime story

Renewable Energy World

Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene. This crime has been going on for decades. This crime has displaced or killed untold numbers of people around the world, caused countless billions of dollars in economic damage and ravaged vital ecosystems and wildlife. By Mark Hertsgaard. How could they?

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Canada Steps Up Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples To Push Fossil Fuel Pipelines Forward

DeSmogBlog

Howe said it was a kind of “pre-crime” program that resulted in surveillance of Indigenous people and anti-fracking protesters. Earlier this year, Trans Mountain said the price tag could reach C$21.4 Since then, costs have exploded to new heights.

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Formosa Plastics Opponents Ask Louisiana Governor to Veto Bill Over Harsh Sentencing Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Tags: RISE St. James, a Louisiana community group, what House Bill 197 means to her, the answer that comes back isn’t about floodgates or water pumps or pipelines. It’s about the legacy of slavery in the United States — and how that legacy echoes in criminalization efforts today. James Formosa environmental racism critical infrastructure Lt.

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Here Are 3 Climategate Myths That Have Not Aged Well

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins Excessive media coverage of an email hacking tilted the outcome of a critically important event against the victims of the crime. Tags: Climategate climate science denial hockey stick graph climate gate michael mann Sound familiar?