by Amazon Watch Indigenous leaders demand the urgent removal of 20,000 illegal gold miners from their lands to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through their villages. The disease could infect up to 40% of Yanomami communities if wildcat mining remains, threatening a […]
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by Mason Adams / Mother Jones “Life in these mountains ain’t always been easy, so people around here take a stand when they see something they don’t agree with—and I’m one of them,” says walrus-mustached Jammie Hale in his thick southwestern Virginia […]
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from CBC News The Mounties are investigating after a piece of heavy equipment on a Trans Mountain pipeline expansion worksite in British Columbia was found burned out by workers returning after the long weekend. The machine, a Peterbuilt rope truck, was being used to […]
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by Appalachians Against Pipelines / It’s Going Down An update from the Yellow Finch tree sits on DAY 553 blockading the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline! “After several weeks, MVP security has FINALLY noticed our newest addition to the Yellow Finch […]
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