How anti-mining activists manipulate information to serve their purposes.
Today’s highly organized environmentalists believe that the ends justify the means. However to influence public sentiment, few of them have more succinctly stated their willingness to misapply scientific expertise and data than Greenpeace.
As a case in point, Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace is infamous for saying: “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
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Just Stop Oil have held their final march through London – to the joy of the motorists, art lovers, sports fans and police whose days they have ruined with disruptive protests that cost millions.
The self-righteous eco-clowns announced they were ‘hanging up the hi vis’ last month after three years of havoc wrecked on the lives of ordinary Brits.
A slew of controversial stunts saw them shut down the Darford Bridge, nearly cause a terrifying accident by trespassing at Silverstone, desecrating Stonehenge and throwing tomato soup over a priceless Van Gogh.
Of all the things we have to blame the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21 for, perhaps the most unexpected is that some desperate people used them as a handy opportunity to begin having sex with trees. In 2020, a 45-year-old Canadian “somatic sex educator” named Sonja Semjonova was going out on her daily walk permitted to her by the Trudeau Taliban, when she came across (perhaps even literally) a giant oak tree by the side of a path in British Colombia. Perceiving “a connection” with the tree, Sonja began to “lie against it” loving the “feeling of being tiny and supported by something more solid” and “not being able to fall”.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that one reason why China has control over the global rare earth minerals market is because zoning and environmental laws have made it too difficult for America to mine for rare earth minerals itself.
Bill Maher pleads with Democrat Senator Tina Smith to cut the 'blue tape':
Bill Maher: "We have one place here in California: Mountain Pass, they have rare earth mine there. It takes out of the ground in 1 year what China does in a day.
Could we build rare earth mines?
How long… pic.twitter.com/6gRqkKQM9D— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) April 19, 2025
Watch Carney on this file, my bet is that if elected he will help ensure China maintains its dominance by feeding the “environmentalist” efforts to halt rare earths mining in Canada.
At the airport, the staff now offers comfort dogs, gorgeous Golden Retrievers and German Shepherds available for petting and holding. The idea is to comfort scared kids, delight passersby, and generally lift up the space. Yes, that’s exactly what dogs do.
What a wonderful idea. However, not everyone is happy about our love of dogs.
I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!”
From the people who turned your Mustang into a Prius and made it so your dishwasher does not actually wash dishes comes a new villain, not quite straight from central casting, in the imaginary war on the planet: dogs.
“We are all too aware of the negative effects of cats,” Australian academics Bill Bateman and Lauren Gilson write at The Conversation, “both owned and feral, on wildlife…. Our pet dogs seem to get a free pass.”
With all the charm of Almira Gulch and the subtlety of Michael Vick, Bateman and Gilson argue that man’s best friend really sits, and rolls over, as mankind’s great enemy.
A Danish chef couple who attracted international acclaim with a “forest resort” in Sweden have been tracked down to Guatemala after apparently going on the run from tax authorities, leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste.
Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk founded their purportedly eco-friendly retreat, Stedsans, in Halland, southern Sweden, after claiming to have “felt the call of the wild” in Copenhagen, where they ran a popular rooftop restaurant.
Stedsans, formed of 16 wooden cottages looking out on to nature, attracted praise from influencers and reviewers, who described it as “magical” and “enchanting luxury”.
Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds
Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found.
An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised”.
While the environmental impact of cats is well known, the comparative effect of pet dogs has been poorly acknowledged, the researchers said.
Dogs have an ally in Trump!
Trump issues order to block state climate change policies
JSO, the climate activist group, is planning its final protest next month after senior figures were given long prison sentences
Just Stop Oil had looked on enviously at Dutch environmentalists who managed to rouse thousands of people to block a main road outside parliament in the Netherlands to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.
They had hoped to emulate their success in central London by gradually swelling a small demonstration to a mass protest that could “reclaim parliament”.
But the logistics of having enough people to occupy Parliament Square and the deterrent of potential jail sentences killed the idea in the end. “The firepower wasn’t there,” Jonathon Porritt, a JSO supporter, said.
It’s over. Just Stop Oil is “hanging up the hi-vis” and will cease its campaign of direct action by the end of April. But after three years of throwing orange paint at things, why is the group throwing in the towel now?
Of course, it doesn’t help that the vanguard of JSO activists — including the organisation’s leader, Roger Hallam — are currently in prison. The plan was that their high-profile stunts would inspire enough acts of civil disobedience to gum up the court system and challenge the authorities, but the hoped-for scale of resistance never materialised.
The resilience of our national infrastructure has withered as governments have chased environmental fads.
Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, was shut down and plunged into darkness on Friday. Over 1,000 flights were cancelled and the plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers were thrown into disarray. And it was all because of a fire at an electrical substation three miles away in nearby Hayes. Heathrow relied upon this substation to power most of its critical services. Without it, nothing worked.
On Monday at an energy conference in Houston, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s “irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens.”
He added that, “Natural gas is responsible for 43 per cent of U.S. electricity production,” and beyond the obvious scale and cost problems, there’s “simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas.”
In other words, as a federal election looms, once again the United States is diverging from Canada when it comes to energy policy.
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people – including world leaders – at the conference in November.
The state government touts the highway’s “sustainable” credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for shootings at an oil pipeline in South Dakota and an electrical substation in North Dakota that caused $1.7 million in damages after a judge found that his crimes met the definition of terrorism.
Cameron Smith, 50, was also ordered Monday to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution, the Bismarck Tribune reported, as well as fines totaling $250,000. He faces deportation after his release.
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