Here are a few links to get us all across some rough rivers in May:
http://movetoamend.org
https://www.stopfasttrack.com
www.citizenactionwi.org
And a few quotes, excerpts and random thoughts...
1, Obama will be at The Sentinel Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave, for a fundraising event on Thursday, May 7th at the Sentinel Hotel that starts at 5pm. Let's take this opportunity to remind him that we are waiting for him to do the right thing on KXL and finally reject it. But perhaps more importantly, here we have the chance to urge the President to stop the TPP madness now and instead promote fair and equitable trade that favors the people over corporate greed.
2, 350PDX is launching its summer outreach campaign to engage members of our community in the fight for a stable climate! Join us this weekend at this Saturday's St. John's Day Parade and a very special Mother's Day Sunday Parkways. And check out the other volunteer opportunities this month to engage members of the community in your neighborhood: http://goo.gl/forms/jhvKBUpvSn
3, 0506 OR Subject: Field-checking timber sales helps protect forests!Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project will field-check thousands of acres in eight timber sales across Eastern Oregon this summer. Putting people in the forest gives us the information we need to:
stop ecologically destructive projects;
protect habitat for species such as Bull trout, salmon, fishers, Oregon spotted frogs, and Gray wolves;
and train a new generation of forest defenders!
4, from EcoWatch: The Texas state legislature voted yesterday to ban fracking bans. Ever since the people of Denton, Texas voted to ban fracking last November, state lawmakers in cahoots with the oil and gas industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, have attempted to strip municipalities like Denton of home rule authority to override the city’s ban. In response, citizens banded together to form Frack Free Denton to fight for home rule. The group has put together a powerful film, which premieres on Friday, documenting their fight to ban fracking within city limits in the heart of oil and gas country. The vote comes despite recent findings by a team of researchers from Southern Methodist University that linked the earthquakes in one area of Texas, which did not have earthquakes prior to the fracking boom.
5, In California’s Central Valley its pumpjacks and chemo-crops as far as the eye can see…so why not? Use treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops. Oil giant Chevron recycles 21 million gallons of that water each day and sells it to farmers who use it on about 45,000 acres of crops, about 10% of Kern County’s farmland.State and local officials praise the 2-decade-old program as a national model for coping with the region’s water shortages. As California’s four-year drought lingers and authorities scramble to conserve every drop, agricultural officials have said that more companies are seeking permits to begin similar programs. The heightened interest in recycling oil field wastewater has raised concern over the adequacy of safety measures in place to prevent contamination from toxic oil production chemicals. Until now, government authorities have only required limited testing of recycled irrigation water. They haven’t screened for the range of chemicals used in modern oil production. No one knows whether nuts, citrus or other crops grown with the recycled oil field water have been contaminated.
- KBOO