Sand Mining in America
To state the obvious, sand mining is—mining. Whatever one might be digging for at the end of their personal rainbows—coal, gold, a short cut to China, or sand—it involves a violation of earth’s surface.
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Thousands Reject the Extractivist Logic at the World Bank-IMF meeting in Peru
The annual governors’ meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank opened on October 5 in Peru’s capital city.
Double Jeopardy: Thousands of fracked gas wells over an active coal mine
Greene County is the second largest coal producing county in the country and is also home to thousands of gas wells. The people are the subjects of a grand energy experiment.
Reclaiming the commons in Appalachia
The current system is concerned with the well-being of the politically connected corporati instead of the common good – Appalachian communities.
