Tony Heller explains that the state animal of Victoria, Australia was saved from extinction by the massive bushfires of 1939. PICTURE CREDIT: License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, Credit: Tirin (http://takver.com)
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was in California a few days ago to assess the damage done resulting from wildfires that occurred there recently. He correctly laid blame at the feet where it belongs: environmentalists. Thankfully, President Trump also paid the Golden State a visit and Governor Jerry Brown has adopted President Trump and Secretary… Read More Ryan Zinke (Rightly) Blames Environmentalists For California’s Wildfires
CGTN’s Phil Lavelle reports from the town of Big Bear in Southern California that environmentalists dispute claims and would oppose a plan to log forests to prevent wildfires in The Golden State. This is no surprise because the wildfires help kill off humans.
Despite the wave of lawsuits from environmentalist organizations in reaction to the Trump Administration’s environmental policies, fortunately, there are (albeit limited) instances where greens have lost. At times governments push back against environmentalists because their policies are will destroy jobs or economic growth. For example, in Massachusetts a federal agency disputed claims made by the… Read More Environmentalists Lose on Two Legal Fronts
Tucker Carlson interviewed Edward Poitevent II on his Fox News program tonight. The Poitevent family is fighting federal regulators who threatened to impose millions of dollars of fines on them during 2013 for developing a plot of land the family owns. The bureaucrats claim doing so threaten the habitat of the dusky gopher frog which… Read More Fighting the Feds Over Frogs
Canadian paper company Resolute Forest Products was the subject of a Greenpeace fundraiser last year in which the group not only made numerous frivolous allegations against the company but, according to Resolute CEO Richard Garneau, even went so far as to harass companies Resolute did business with with slander campaigns similar to what they did… Read More Forest company sues Greenpeace
Three people were arrested in connection with vandalism of logging equipment that took place in south Ouachita Parish, Louisiana last week. Joshua Jurca, 22, and Rhonda Barnes, 21 and a thirteen-year old boy were booked on charges of felony criminal damage. According to The News Star, investigators state the three allegedly broke into a logging… Read More Two eco-terrorists arrested for logging company sabotage
McLatchy reports that lawmakers and witnesses who testified before a US House subcommittee state that lawsuits from environmentalist groups are draining much needed resources that could be used to log forests in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. Tuolumne County, California supervisor Randy Hanvelt made his case during testimony by using photographs taken during the 2013 Yosemite-area… Read More Anti-logging lawsuits help environmentalists burn down homes
The Pebble in the Pond Environmental Society out of Powell River, British Columbia has recently announced they will work to block logging by court action resulting from a study the group did assessing bird nest populations. According to Powell River’s Peak Online, a field ornithologist and wildlife technician specializing in birds from Vancouver Island named… Read More Canadian environmentalists defend bird nests over logging
Back in 2009 Gipson Guitars had its facilities raided by federal agents for allegedly buying wood illegally from Madagascar. The feds returned again in 2011 further alleging the company was using wood obtained illegally from India. Fortunately, the claims made by the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal bureaucrats turned out not to be true,… Read More The great Gipson Guitar raid
