Voices from the Hive 5

Welcome to Voices from the Hive 5- the fifth instalment of the Eco Intelligence Newsletter for the Age of Extinction Rebellion! This week’s big story revolves around the latest developments Stateside, where Energy Transport Solutions, a subsidiary of fossil fuel giant New Fortress Energy, has just been granted a special permit to transport large quantities of highly unstable liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from the Pennsylvania shale fields to New Jersey as part of its international fossil fuel exports program.

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As Extinction Rebellion UK’s Election Rebellion continues, with XR activists disguised as angry bees confronting Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson or glueing themselves to the Brexit Party’s Battle Bus, the big battle across the Pond in New England has erupted around the site of the Weymouth Compressor Station where construction has started on the Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline network.

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As children in over a thousand towns take part in a series of coordinated Climate Strikes across the UK, the exact nature and extent of the Climate and Ecological Crisis is still largely a mystery to large swathes of the adult British population, in spite of the fact that many of their children and grandchildren are way ahead of the game on this.