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Where are oil and gas extraction connected to human rights abuses? Where isn’t it? Oil extraction is a very capital-intensive undertaking, dominated by large corporations and centralized governments, and usually requiring cooperation between the two. Often, the rights, health, and even lives of the local population are ignored, abused or assaulted.

The Problems: “Alternative” Fuels Ethanol Cellulosic Ethanol Waste-Based Fuels (includes cellulosic ethanol / trash-to-ethanol and coal-to-liquids) Biodiesel Algae Biodiesel Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Coal-to-Oil Tar Sands Waste Burning in Cement Kilns Militarism Oil & Gas vs. People and the Environment The Solutions: Transportation and Heating Solutions Conserving Heating Fuels

2007 Energy Bill: Look Before You Leap!December 13, 2007 Help STOP Subsidies to the Ethanol, Coal, Landfill, Incinerator and Nuclear Industries! WE LOST. Late in the day on 12/13/2007, the Senate passed the bill in an 86-8 vote. It’ll soon coast through the House and be signed by resident Bush. The bill passed without the…

Other useful resources: Groups opposing cement kilns and the use of cement kilns for waste incineration:

See our printable Natural Gas Factsheet Natural gas is a fossil fuel that is often promoted as “cleaner” than coal, but which has its own serious environmental hazards.  Natural gas is NOT a “transition” fuel.  Natural gas extraction threatens ecosystems from northern Alaska and Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, including drilling on farms, public lands, forests…