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Residents of the town of Collinsville, west of Bowen, have just finished a two day blockade of the train line that is used for transporting coal from the Bowen Basin to the Abbot Point coal terminal in North Queensland, Australia. The residents are angry about a proposed increase in rail traffic and the adverse health impacts on residents from the increase in vibrations and coal dust emissions, and the problem of delays for emergency vehicles in a town bisected by the rail line.

On Friday, July 23 at 23:23 UTC, the public website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), the leading marketplace for trading CO2 emissions in Europe, was been targetted by hacktivists of the autonomous tech collective *decocidio* (#?).

ALP policy on climate change action has been strongly criticised by environment and climate action groups with protests at Julia Gillard's climate change policy launch in Brisbane, and protests at Julia Gillard's Werribee electoral office and her Melbourne Treasury Place office.

Related: Climate activists lock on at Gillard's office to protest pathetic ALP policy | Photos at Treasury Place protest

Imagine if you and your family and friends suddenly found that everything around you was turning dark and suffocating. Imagine being unable to escape this horror no matter which way you turned. Imagine your children dying before your eyes and you, dying also, unable to help. Welcome to the Gulf of Mexico and the worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Almost a month since the explosion that occurred on British Petroleum oil platform close  to the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, US government authorities, and owners of  the oil-rig platform  still haven't found a way to stop the flow that is spilling out  into the Atlantic Ocean an estimated 50,000 barrels of oil a day, making this the&nb

New Zealand Greenpeace activists "block(ed) coal being supplied to the boilers of Fonterra's Clandeboye factory, in Canterbury, with three tonnes of wood pellets and by locking themselves to equipment May 18".  Apparently our friends at NZ GP haven't done their homework regarding biomass wood pellets. In the U.S.

From: paul schwantes <wausaupaul@yahoo.com>
Date: April 26, 2010 9:59:16 PM EDT