Standing Rock FB page 10 ways to help Standing Rock how to contact the banks financing the standing Rcok DAPL pipeline

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) proposes to hunt and trap bears and cougars and then kill them, claiming that this will help deer populations. This is an old disproved claim. Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949 that idea of killing predators to increase deer numbers was wrong.

“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.” —Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949.

Further predators are not the main cause of deer declines. The National Wildlife Federation , the Humane Society of the US, and WildEarth Guardians say that deer populations are down due to winter range reductions due to habitat loss and habitat fragmentation due to oil and gas wells and roads and housing developments . The Bureau of Land Management plans to allow 15,000 new oil and gas wells in deer habitat in northwest Colorado. The CPW is proposing restricting oil and gas activity between Dec. 1 and April 15. State may euthanize bears, lions to try to boost deer numbers Email the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission

Mountaintop removal poisons the people, air, land, and streams. And it destroys the forest ecosystems, leaving toxic piles and ponds of waste. There is some good news in that " former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is serving a prison sentence for conspiring to violate mine safety measures." ". “It is done with purpose knowing that water, air, and soil are all being poisoned and knowing that elevated rates of cancer, heart and lung disease, and birth defects in surrounding communities are directly attributed to this specific form of coal mining. It is time for President Obama to speak to the heartache of living near mountaintop removal. It is also time for the Sierra Club and other large organizations to fully support the ACHE Act and end mountaintop removal.” Mountaintop Removal Never Ended:Coal River Mountaineers Fight On

600,000 doctors in Britain called for an end to coal burning in an article on the health and climate effects of coal. "Pollution also disproportionately impacts children and can cause diseases ranging from lung cancer to stroke, killing 40,000 people a year in the country." link We need to municipalize our electric utility to get out from under Xcel, the large utility that has invested heavily in building and retrofitting coal burning power plants.

Another fracking pipeline constructed by Spectra blew up in April in Pennsylvania. If this new Spectra pipeline blew up where it passes near the Indian Point nuclear power plant, it could cause a catastrophe. Plus, pipelines and drilling for fracked gas pollute the air and water in addition to accelerating global warming. Link