This article by American environmental social activist and writer, Margaret Swedish, is well worth reading in its entirety, especially the concluding section on the erosion of citizens' rights in favor of corporations' "rights".

http://www.ecologicalhope.org/featured/how-the-worlds-collide/

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When "progress" collides with nature







At what price progress?

Railroad sign indicating that the cargo is crude oil, the stuff that blew up in Lac Mégantic, Québec last summer, killing 47..

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