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Nov 13, 2017
Coos Bay Estuary on the coast of Oregon files to intervene in FERC proceedings. Coos Bay is threatened by a massive LNG export terminal and a pipeline.
Read More | Press Releases & BlogsOct 30, 2017
As part of the growing movement for the Rights of Nature, Coos River Estuary in Oregon recently filed to intervene in a FERC hearing on the Jordan Cove project.
Read More | Community Wires, Events, News from the GrassrootsJul 10, 2017
Immense Possibilities interviews CELDF’s Thomas Linzey and Coos County, OR, community rights activist Mary Geddry.
Read More | News from the GrassrootsMay 26, 2017
Using citizen initiative, two Oregon communities fight to protect themselves from the timber and oil/gas industry, and secure their democratic and environmental rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 17, 2017
Two community rights measures were on the Oregon ballot this week to stop corporate harms, and more coming down the pipe. Growing numbers of Oregon residents are using community rights to protect themselves and assert democratic rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 15, 2017
As election day approaches, a foreign corporation and its allies spend over $1 million to defeat a local rights-based measure banning a massive LNG export terminal.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 15, 2017
A Canadian company attempting to force in a LNG export terminal and pipeline in Coos County, OR, irks residents, who are voting on a community rights ordinance banning the project tomorrow.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 13, 2017
Corporate interests pour funds into defeating a Coos County, OR, community rights measure. The citizen’s initiative bans the Jordan Cove LNG export project as a violation of environmental and democratic rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 8, 2017
Veresen Corporation spends more than $300,000 to defeat Coos County, OR’s, community rights campaign. If adopted, the initiative would stop the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal. Residents are fighting to protect their environmental rights.
Read More | UncategorizedMay 8, 2017
Coos County, OR, residents fight for their right to decide on an LNG export project through the ballot, using community rights.
Read More | Community WiresApr 21, 2017
The battle against big money is on in Coos County, OR. With support for industry coming from the White House, Coos residents are up against an all out propaganda war as they fight to protect their community from an LNG export terminal.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 20, 2017
Oil and gas industry donates more than $300,000 to defeat Coos County, OR, residents’ Right to a Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 2, 2017
A Coos County, OR, resident calls out local officials supporting the oil and gas industry, rather than supporting residents in building long term economic and environmental sustainability through the people’s May ballot measure.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 20, 2017
Coos County, OR, residents advance rights to stop Jordan Cove LNG export project.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsDec 26, 2016
Coos County, OR, residents aim to transform their community through Community Rights, democratizing energy development and creating sustainability. They’re willing to challenge unjust laws to do so.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 9, 2016
Breaking the Planet takes an unflinching look at climate change, the legal and governing structures accelerating our own destruction, and the radical action necessary to cease the sweeping and violent damage being done to the planet, and us.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMay 23, 2016
State governments block communities’ efforts to stop harmful activities. Corporations sue the communities and are backed by the judiciary. What’s left? Says blogger Mary Geddry: people insisting on their right to local community self-government.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsApr 18, 2016
Our right to local community self-government is unrecognized. Our elected representatives work on behalf of industry rather than we the people. Maybe it’s time to revoke our consent.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 19, 2016
Coos County, OR, residents recognize FERC’s denial of Jordan Cove export terminal is not a win. FERC openly admits economic conditions – and not harm to the environment – was the basis for their decision. Residents dig in to continue advancing community rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 11, 2016
Making clear the distinction between ordinances banning harms and Community Bills of Rights laws banning harmful activities as a violation of rights, Coos County, OR, blogger and Community Rights proponent Mary Geddry urges support for rights-based strategies.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 2, 2016
Rather than being the cornerstone of democracy, our U.S. Constitution is the cornerstone of oligarchy – as evidenced by corporate projects forced into communities, such as the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, OR.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsNov 2, 2015
Coos County, OR, resident urges a rejection of projects with short term benefit and long term environmental and economic harm. Instead, the Coos County Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance empowers the people of Coos County to create a sustainable future through codifying their community rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsOct 10, 2015
CELDF’s Thomas Linzey spoke to Coos County, OR, residents, who are advancing a Community Bill of Rights sustainability ordinance to stop an export terminal and legalize their right to a sustainable energy future.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsOct 3, 2015
Future generations in Coos County, OR, have a fundamental and unalienable right to a sustainable economy and energy future. Coos residents advance their bill of rights banning pipelines and a proposed LNG port, recognizing the need to challenge existing law that makes sustainability illegal.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJun 8, 2015
Recognizing sustainability is illegal under our current structure of law, blogger Magix of Coos County urges the Community Bill of Rights to challenge the law and protect their County from an LNG export terminal.
Read More | Uncategorized