The Obama administration is creating an advisory committee on climate change to advise the federal government on future operations.
The Interior Department announced the new bureaucracy in a recent federal registry notice along with a call for nominations by Nov. 19 to seat the 25-member board.
The notice specifically states membership will be comprised of state and local government employees, non-governmental organizations, Native American tribes, academia, individual landowners and business interests.
“In addition, [...]
Over 13 years as an MEP, Daniel Hannan has witnessed first hand how Brussels works. Now he has written a forensic analysis of why it’s rotten to the core. His devastating critique should be required reading for every politician.
There is a popular joke in Brussels that if the European Union were a country applying to join itself, it would be rejected on the grounds of being undemocratic.
It’s absolutely true – [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – About six years ago, an army of agents hired by energy companies started desperately courting landowners across the United States whose farms and ranches happened to sit atop some of the richest oil and gas deposits in the world. And so began one of the biggest land grabs in recent memory.
Those days are over.
U.S. energy titan Chesapeake Energy is quickly cutting back on an aggressive land-leasing [...]
Bordering on Portugal, the sprawling but thinly populated region of Extremadura has long been Spain‘s poorest, with per-capita GDP at just over two-thirds the national average.
From the foothills of the Gredos mountains, where Jaraíz de la Vera lies, to the harsher landscapes of the south, this has traditionally been an area of landowners and poor agricultural labourers. At 32%, its unemployment is rivalled only by the Canary Islands and southern Andalucia.
Just [...]
by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
All Transactions To Be Conducted In The Presence Of A Tax Collector
In the terminal collapse of the Roman Empire, there was perhaps no greater burden to the average citizen than the extreme taxes they were forced to pay.
The tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far [...]
(Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that landowners can sue to challenge a federal government compliance order under the clean water law, a decision that sides with corporate groups and puts new limits on a key Environmental Protection Agency power.
The justices unanimously rejected the government’s position that individuals or companies must first fail to comply with an EPA order and face potentially costly enforcement action before a court [...]
This might be all very well for NE Pa at one level, but an influx of new money is only one aspect of the whole story.
I’ve complained elsewhere about the comparatively-new coal seam gas extraction industry in Australia. It has two effects upon land which get little publicity, effects which I don’t see how Pennsylvania can escape.
(1) From the air affected land looks as though it has measles, [...]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying $112 million in tax money to farmers and ranchers in 11 Western states to restore the habitat of the Sage Grouse, a bird that has not been listed as either threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species law because the government says there are too many of them.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week that the USDA would dedicate $21.8 million to pay eligible [...]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying $112 million in tax money to farmers and ranchers in 11 Western states to restore the habitat of the Sage Grouse, a bird that has not been listed as either threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species law because the government says there are too many of them.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week that the USDA would dedicate $21.8 million to pay eligible [...]
http://www.theage.com.au/business/class-actions-shake-bhp-20110524-1f2gk.html
Class actions shake BHP
Leonie Wood, Barry Fitzgerald
May 25, 2011
BHP Billiton has been hit by class actions in the US as Arkansas landowners allege extraction techniques used in the group’s recently acquired shale gas business are causing earthquakes, poisoning their water sources and
polluting the soil and air.
Arkansas landowners accuse BHP’s Houston-based petroleum division, along with three other gas producers, of wanton and reckless disregard for their [...]
Brazil is one of the world’s biggest agricultural producers
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has voted to ease restrictions on the amount of land farmers must preserve as forest.
The amended law also grants some amnesties for previous deforestation.
Supporters say Brazil needs land to boost agricultural production, while environmentalists say destruction of the Amazon rainforest will increase.
Wrangling over the final bill is likely, as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff indicated she [...]
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