http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/environmentalists/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:54:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414378/posts Hey Obama constituencies! How’s that “HOPE” and “CHANGE” working for ya? Labor: Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 12-4-2009: National unemployment has risen from 7.6% in January 2009 to 10% in November 2009. Among the major worker groups, unemployment rates for adult men (10.5 per-cent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (26.7 percent), whites (9.3 per-cent), blacks (15.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.7 percent) showed little change in November. The unemployment rate for Asians was 7.3 percent. African Americans: Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Money.CNN.com reports: The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414378/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410831/posts COPENHAGEN, December 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano yesterday, the President of the Vatican Bank took the Copenhagen summit to task over its "nihilism," and consequent emphasis on population control and de-industrialization. "Nihilistic thought, with its rejection of any objective truth and values causes serious damage when applied to economics," wrote Ettore Gotti Tedeschi.  He recalled as an example the "disastrous consequences" of Malthus' argument that population growth causes poverty, as well as the theory that the economy is morally autonomous, which he said has led to an "overly consumerist and materialistic"... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410831/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409969/posts The late Senator Everett Dirksen frequently gets  credit for the quote: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." Dirksen said in an interview that the quote wasn't his, but that he would only be too happy to take the credit. We were reminded of that quote when we heard this one by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who cannot deny that she said it: “The US is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 to address the climate change needs of developing countries.”... PoliticalLore.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409969/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402617/posts ROSCOE — A Bozeman company has filed applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a preliminary permit to proceed with feasibility studies of hydropower projects on East and West Rosebud river. The application, submitted to FERC by Hydrodynamics Inc., describes one diversion dam on each river. The dam on the East Rosebud would be approximately 400 feet downstream of East Rosebud Lake. On the West Rosebud, the dam would divert water roughly 800 feet downstream of Emerald Lake. The proposed dams would be 8 feet high and 100 feet long. Both would involve taking some of the river’s runoff... Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402617/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 05:02:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400667/posts Science: For two years, our space agency has refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has repeatedly corrected its climate figures. A leading researcher threatens to sue to find more inconvenient truths. What's become known as "Climate-Gate" may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn't honor his FOI requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors. "I assume that what is there is highly... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400667/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:28:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400589/posts Posted: 5:54 pm EST November 11, 2009 Updated: 6:53 pm EST November 11, 2009 BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Fishermen say an effort to protect the red snapper could kill Brevard County's fishing industry. They're gathered in Cape Canaveral to fight a ban on "bottom fishing." WFTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400589/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:19:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397070/posts After 40 years of bitter opposition Environmentalists concede that Nuclear Power is essential to avert further harm from Global Warming. The Nuclear Industry has felt itself vilified, constrained and damaged by the ceaseless and sometimes pathological opposition of the environmental movement, this changing attitude is manna from on high. Although very little happened, Nov. 24 was a red letter day for the nation's nuclear power industry. No new nuclear reactors were purchased, no breakthrough in treating nuclear waste was announced, and the Obama administration did not declare that it would pay for new reactors. Instead, the source of the industry's... oilprice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397070/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:58:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393091/posts Junk Science: Hacked e-mails from Britain's Climate Research Unit are only the latest evidence of climate fraud. Just ask NASA's James Hansen about the faking of climate data or EPA employees about the suppression of climate fact. For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being on the take, their research tainted and funded by grants from Big Oil and other fossil-fuel interests. Now, it turns out, it's the warm-mongers who are fudging the numbers and concealing the inconvenient truth. We don't know who "Deep Throat" is. But according to an interview in Investigate Magazine's... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393091/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:46:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390945/posts The latest United Nations concern is the fear of a global food shortage. However, the U.N. and the United States are to blame for the crisis. It is interesting that food shortages in the world first became apparent over the last decade coinciding with the US-led effort to change the world's industry from growth to stagnation in an attempt to convert it to a green-based economy. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390945/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:30:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388523/posts In a first-of-its-kind litigation, the Ecological Rights Foundation ("ERF") has alleged in a Complaint brought in federal district court in San Francisco that Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) is in violation of the Clean Water Act ("CWA") and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"). ERF alleges that the treatment of PG&E's utility poles treated with pentachlorophenol ("penta"), a wood preservative, has resulted in contamination of groundwater and surface water throughout four counties in Northern California -- Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, and San Francisco, including San Francisco Bay. The suit implicates all of the estimated 300,000 utility poles that... Toxic Tort Litigation Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388523/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:25:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375008/posts Bill Gates took on the Famine Lobby while addressing a forum on the world food supply in Iowa. Speaking at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Gates took aim at the chorus of environmental leftists and organic food advocates who believe Africans should starve rather than eat genetically modified (GM) foods. “Some voices are instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity. They act as if there is no emergency, even though in the poorest, hungriest places on earth, population is growing faster than productivity,” he said.The opposition is significant, because Gates is left-of-center himself. The Bill and Melinda... FrontPageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375008/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:38:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373041/posts Earth First! made headlines with its tree-spiking in the 1980s, but the guy who helped make the anti-logging tactic famous didn't invent it. Mike Roselle even titled one chapter of his new book "Why I Quit Spiking Trees." In it, the co-founder of Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society described how the practice brought old-growth timber cutting to national awareness, but became a public relations disaster for the protesters. "I think the Wobblies can take credit for it if they want, but it's been around as long as logging," Roselle said, referring to the Industrial Workers... Missoulian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373041/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:25:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2374266/posts At a time when our economy is struggling to produce jobs, the left is still intent upon keeping Americans from earning a livelihood. On Saturday, Democratic Representative Gabriella Giffords held a public hearing on a proposed copper mine in her district in Southern Arizona. But rather than being a public hearing designed to share information on the project, some felt it was more accurately a public hearing designed to present only one point of view. Not surprisingly, Ms. Giffords, all four panel members and all but one speaker were against the project. In a letter to the editor, one attendee,... MainStreetRadical.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2374266/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:40:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2365493/posts There is a coal plant being proposed in a very small mining town in northeast Michigan. It was proposed 3 years ago. The main issue right now is gaining an air quality permit from the Michigan DEQ. If you would like to know all the hurdles and hoops a coal plant has to go through for approval,as well as the tactics of the environmentalists and the politicians, please read my play-by-play. I have 16 parts done right now, and about 3 more will bring me up to date. The story is ongoing. The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City,... Jennerationx http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2365493/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:41:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354157/posts Florida isn't known for whale watching, but every winter the coastline offers a haven for endangered North Atlantic right whales. They migrate to warm, shallow waters to give birth and nurse little -- relatively speaking -- 1-ton bundles of blubber. Their spot is right next to where the U.S. Navy wants to conduct anti-submarine training. The Navy has selected a site bordering a federally protected whale nursery stretching from Savannah to Sebastian for an undersea warfare range, where ships, submarines and aircraft outfitted with powerful sonar can practice hunting subs. Citing voluminous studies, the Navy concluded that training 58 miles... Richmond Times-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354157/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:04:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353292/posts The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation. Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. and Hopi lawmakers say environmentalists' efforts could hurt the tribes' struggling economies by slowing or stopping coal mining. Shirley said Wednesday that he will stand in solidarity with the Hopi Tribe, and joined Hopi lawmakers in encouraging other tribes to re-evaluate their relationships with environmentalists. Flagstaff Arizona Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353292/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:01:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350047/posts Moose declining in Minnesota's northwoods, among their few strongholds in lower 48 states Researchers say such sightings of moose, an icon in Minnesota's northwoods, are likely to become more rare. A special advisory committee warned last month that climate change threatens moose. ... Minnesota has an estimated 7,600 moose, nearly all in the forests of northeastern Minnesota, where plentiful swamps, lakes and streams provide good habitat. Yet they're beleaguered by increasingly warm weather and parasites such as brainworms, ticks and liver flukes. "Almost without exception all of the indicators are that the population is declining," said Mark Lenarz, a moose... Minneapolis (Red) Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350047/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:25:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349892/posts The Obama administration has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the possibility of removing four hydroelectric dams on the Snake River in Washington state in order to “protect” 13 species of salmon on the federal endangered species list. The studies were part of a new “Adaptive Management Implementation Plan” created by a coalition of nine government agencies (which calls itself “the Federal Caucus”) that which manages the salmon population in the Columbia River basin. The plan aims at trying to reverse a decline in the salmon population... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349892/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:34:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349897/posts The Herald newspaper says the graffiti sprayed on buildings associated with the Skotdal family is visible from Highway 522. The message appears to be a followup to last month’s sabotage at the KRKO (1380) transmitter site that toppled a whole tower. It says, in part: “MBA KRKO/Snotdol [sic] Empire. If you continue to risk killing children, mother earth and her creations, all your holdings are targets.“ This extra-long graffiti message ends this way: "Authentic ELF [Earth Liberation Front]? Ask ATF/FBI about restricted water mains. Little water, better burn. ELF.” KRKO recently turned on its new 50-kw daytime facility, a move... radio-info.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349897/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349049/posts Environmentalism: Sen. Dianne Feinstein votes to deny water to California's drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, families and food are being held hostage to an endangered fish called the delta smelt. (snip) The Senate rejected the amendment by a largely party-line 61-36 margin, with Feinstein opposing the restoration of water deliveries to farmers. The California senator claimed she was blindsided by the amendment to the bill she was managing in the Senate, bizarrely comparing the move to a "Pearl Harbor." "No one from California has called, written or indicated they wanted this on the calendar," Feinstein protested. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349049/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348521/posts Delta smelts: Preferred over humans. Environmentalism: Sen. Dianne Feinstein votes to deny water to California's drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, families and food are being held hostage to an endangered fish called the delta smelt.There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive agricultural region in the world. It was a large part of what made the Golden State golden.Now it's a place where farmers no longer farm, but instead line up at food banks to feed the families of those who once fed the rest of the country and a good chunk of the... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348521/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:23:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347272/posts OMG ! This environmental movement is getting to be a royal pain in the arse... literally. For those of you who like to use soft plush toilet paper you better hide because the environmentalists are coming after you. According to a report in the WAPO soft toilet paper is a menace "a dark-comedy example of American excess." The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods. European... Washington Post/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347272/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:13:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347228/posts ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- There is a battle for America's behinds. It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for "soft" It's a menace, environmental groups say -- and a dark-comedy example of American excess. The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods. Toilet paper is far from being the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347228/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2331569/posts We’ve heard a lot this summer about the hateful rhetoric emanating from Right-wingers at health care town halls across the country. Just yesterday, I got an email from President Barack Obama’s “Organising America” campaign, railing against the “frightening smears” and “outrageous lies” - and asking for a cash donation. But some friends of mine from Ireland, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, whose film Not Evil Just Wrong is due to premiere next month, have been subjected to a slew of death threats and instances of disgusting abuse from the environmental Left. One commenter branded them “Hitler’s Henchmen”. Their crime? Their... Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2331569/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:14:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318131/posts Environmentalists and the media have successfully bamboozled half the populace and every school child in America into believing large numbers of polar bears are starving and drowning in the Arctic because of global warming. But it's obviously not even close to being true. How do we know this? Because if even just one emaciated drowned polar bear's body had been fished from Arctic waters in the last five years, we'd have seen its sorry carcass a thousand times on TV and on the covers of Time and Vanity Fair. By now the poor dead bear would have been given a... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318131/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:03:53 GMT