Brazil port blocked over Amazon law /Veto parcial mantém florestas sob risco

Greenpeace temporarily blocked a freighter from being loaded at a northern Brazilian port in protest over a partial presidential veto of a land-use bill seen as harming the Amazon

The environmental group said on its website on Saturday that activists ferried by its Rainbow Warrior vessel occupied a giant pile of pig iron on the dock while another team scaled two cranes to stop them from loading the raw material of iron and steel onto the US-bound Clipper Hope.

The activists then unfurled banners proclaiming “Amazon Crime” and “Dilma’s dirty secret,” in protest at President Dilma Rousseff’s partial veto Friday of 12 controversial articles of the new code regulating the use of land on rural properties.

“The Amazon turns to Charcoal, Brazil Stop the Chainsaw,” said a huge banner tied to a crane by the activists. Continue reading “Brazil port blocked over Amazon law /Veto parcial mantém florestas sob risco”

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Dilma vetoes bits of Amazon Law

Brazil’s Rousseff vetoes part of controversial Forest Code revision

mongabay.com
May 25, 2012

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today rejected 12 of 84 articles in a controversial bill that aims to relax restrictions on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian government will announce the full

250px-157716main_forest_burning_lg — Burning and deforestation of the Amazon forest to make grazing lands. Source: (NASA LBA-ECO Project)

details of the cuts on Monday.

Environmentalists had pressured Rousseff to outright veto the measure, which they said could reverse Brazil’s progress in reducing its deforestation rate. But a presidential veto could have been overruled by Congress.

The revised version of the Forest Code raised concerns among greens and scientists for provisions that

would have granted amnesty for illegal deforestation and reduced the amount of forest landowners are required to protect. The looser Forest Code seemed to be opposed by the general public, according to surveys conducted by environmentalists. The Forest Code revision was pushed by agroindustrial interests in the Congress. Continue reading “Dilma vetoes bits of Amazon Law”

Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!

“You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring.”
– poster circulating around the strikeTHE LAWS
On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that began in this province fifteen weeks ago, to restore order and clear the way for the implementation of austerity measures in this territory.The first is a municipal by-law. It aims to discourage people from wearing masks at demonstrations by threatening them with fines from $1000 to $5000. It comes as the federal government is contemplating a law, to be implemented across the whole territory of the canadian state, that would punish those who conceal their identities “while participating in a riot” with a maximum of ten years in prison. Continue reading “Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!”

Save the Ngabe people..Stop the Dam!

Tear Gas and Guns Fired at Ngabe Indigenous People for Protesting the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Project

by locaonga

On Friday, May 18th a group of Ngabes and solidarists hiked to the construction site of the Barro Blanco dam on the Tabasara River. They were met with tear gas, bombs and live fire. The indigenous group was unarmed and outnumbered, 300 to 50. One man was wounded from a nearby explosion.

“Yesterday was war. [Martinelli] is massacring our people. He killed one, he killed another and yesterday he nearly killed again. If we killed one of theirs we would be in trouble, but they kill one of ours and deny it,” Rogelio Rodriquez, a prominent Ngabe community member said.

A group Ngabe men blockading a construction bridge that
crosses the Tabasara River in the Veraguas Province, Panama Continue reading “Save the Ngabe people..Stop the Dam!”

Arctic melt :150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland

Arctic melt releasing ancient methane

By Richard Black

Using aerial and ground-based surveys, the team identified about 150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland in lakes along the margins of ice cover.

Many of the sites were bubbling methane that has been stored for millenniaScientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere. Continue reading “Arctic melt :150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland”

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