by Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Faced with strident opposition from community and climate activists, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday intervened to stop a vote on a controversial fracked gas power plant in Newark pending further review of the project’s environmental […]
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Call to Action: Protect Thacker Pass/Peehee mu’huh from Lithium Mining
posted on June 15, 2021 for more information, visit www.protectthackerpass.org Fort McDermitt, Nevada – As soon as July 29, 2021, Lithium Nevada Corporation (LNC) plans to begin removing cultural sites, artifacts, and possibly human remains belonging to the ancestors of the Paiute and […]
Continue readingIncendiary Attack against the Construction of a Tesla Factory in Grünheide, Germany
from AMWEnglish On the night of May 25 to 26, 2021, we attacked the power supply of the Gigafactory of Tesla, in Berlin-Grünheide, setting fire to six high voltage cables. Tesla is neither green nor ecological nor social. Tesla is a company […]
Continue readingMountain Valley Pipeline Protester Blockades Access To Work Site
by: Appalachians Against Pipelines / It’s Going Down Just before 6 A.M. Tuesday morning, a Mountain Valley Pipeline protester locked themself to the inside of a broken down vehicle outside of Pembroke, VA, blocking access to a pipeline construction site. The vehicle’s […]
Continue readingBrazil Amazon: Illegal miners fire on Indigenous group
From: BBC Illegal miners inside a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon opened fire on an Indigenous community using automatic weapons, local leaders say. The Yanomami group said they responded with bows and arrows, and shotguns. One Indigenous person and four miners […]
Continue readingCall to Action: Honor the Treaties, Stop Line 3!
from Treaty People Gathering Rise up. We rise together for treaties. We rise together for climate. We rise together for our water. We rise together for one another. As Enbridge builds Line 3 through Anishinaabe treaty land and the Mississippi Headwaters, we […]
Continue readingTo Dismantle a Gas Pipeline and Sell it as Scrap Metal
A Story of Yaqui Women by: Pie de Página / It’s Going Down The following article, translated from the Spanish version on Pie de Página, looks at the women-led struggle against the passing of a U.S. company’s gas pipeline through Yaqui territory […]
Continue readingHummingbirds put a temporary halt on Trans Mountain
by Cloe Logan / Canada’s National Observer April 27, 2021 One of B.C.’s smallest birds is responsible for a four-month stop-work order on one of the federal government’s largest projects, the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Anna’s hummingbirds are protected by […]
Continue readingNov 18: Two Water Protectors Lock Down to Enbridge Line 3 Excavators, Blocking Active Construction
by Ginew Collective / Rising Tide North America Two Inlets, MN – This morning, two water protectors locked their bodies through the treads of excavators working on a pump station for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, as dozens of others rallied […]
Continue readingRoad-Paving Project Threatens a Wildlife-Rich Reserve in Papua
by Asrida Elisabeth / adapted by Hans Nicholas Jong / Mongabay The Indonesian government plans to pave a stretch of highway running through an ecologically important wildlife reserve in the country’s Papua region. Experts warn the paving will encourage greater encroachment into […]
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