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Please Protect Our Drinking Water: Petition Premier Wynne to Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), a multi-billion dollar power generation company, is planning to build a nuclear waste dump (a Deep Geological Repository or DGR) 1 km from the shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. This video presents Agenda Plus: Opposing OPG’s Nuclear Waste Plan. Beverly Fernandez of the Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump…

September 2, 2014
Please Help Create the World’s Largest Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific: Petition Before Aug.11, 2014

The following video presents “US Proposes Establishing World’s Largest Marine Sanctuary.” “President Barack Obama recently proposed that the US establish the world’s largest marine sanctuary. An area in the Pacific Ocean that lies between American Samoa and Hawaii has been selected, but specific boundaries have not been decided upon. The proposed area would reportedly be…

August 10, 2014
Please Protect the Great Barrier Reef by Saying No to Hugely Damaging Dredging and Dumping

This video presents “Abbot Point Wetlands: Why risk this beautiful place for coal?” Abbot Point is in Northeast Australia (right by the Great Barrier Reef). “Until the coal industry moved in, Abbot Point was just another stunning beach in far north Queensland. But the wetlands behind Abbot Point were always something special. The traditional owners…

August 1, 2013
Urgent Petition to Stop the Destruction of an Indonesian Rainforest & Save Orangutans, Tigers, Elephants & Rhinos

This video presents “Saving Aceh’s Last Forests – Webinar held 11 March 2013”: duration is 1 hour:53 minutes:05 seconds from 1 min:01 sec to 3 mins:15 secs Description of locations and populations of orangutans, elephants, tigers and rhinos in Aceh province from 3 mins:17 secs to 9 mins:30 secs Timeline of land and forest concessions,…

May 15, 2013
Please Help Stop the Frankenfish Attack

This video presents “Frankenfish: Genetically engineered salmon”: “Genetically engineered seeds are not breaking news; however a biotech company called AquaBounty has been working on genetically engineered salmon The fish will be a combination of Atlantic salmon and part Ocean Pout Jeffrey M. Smith says that it is ridiculous to evaluate the safety of this food…

January 19, 2013
Please Help by Signing the Petition of “People Power vs Big Oil”: Only Days Left to Help

This video presents ” Shell Blamed for ‘Cover-Up’ of Nigeria Oil Spills”: “According to a leading human rights group, the Shell Corporation has been covering up catastrophic oil spills in the Niger Delta by blaming them on sabotage by local people Amnesty International says those living there are suffering a “human rights tragedy” inflicted by…

November 19, 2012
Please Save Solar Industry Worldwide: Stop Trade War & Tariffs on China!

This video presents ” China reduces solar power costs with large-scale manufacturing”: “Over the past decade, China has become the world’s leading manufacturer of solar energy technologies; China’s solar manufacturers have helped drive down the cost of solar power around the world with their large-scale production facilities and solar panel exports ClimateWorks traveled to China…

September 10, 2012