by Vincent Ricci / Mongabay A court ruling in Ecuador allowing a community referendum on proposed mining projects could embolden communities across the country mounting similar opposition to mines. The ruling in favor of Cuenca, the capital of Azuay province and the […]
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Canada: Permanent Protest Camp Established Near Trans Mountain Work Site in Kamloops
Secwรฉpemc protesters have settled in for the long haul in a bid to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from being completed in Kamloops.
Continue readingHAPPENING NOW: #ShutDownKKR Day of Action Against Coastal GasLink
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Continue readingA Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executivesโ Private Views on Climate Change
By Hiroko Tabuchi / NY Times Last summer, oil and gas-industry groups were lobbying to overturn federal rules on leaks of natural gas, a major contributor to climate change. Their message: The companies had emissions under control. In private, the lobbyists were […]
Continue readingMauritians Take to the Street Over Oil Spill and Dolphin and Whale Deaths
by Malavika Vyawahare / Mongabay Thousands of people demonstrated in Mauritius on Aug. 29 over the governmentโs handling of a recent ship grounding that spilled 1,000 tons oil in the seas around the island nation. In what appears to be the latest […]
Continue readingBreaking: 2nd Fairy Creek Blockade Established
by BC Blackout August 17, 2020 โ Grassroots forest defenders from across Vancouver Island have successfully prevented Teal Jones Group from blasting logging roads into the unlogged headwaters of the Fairy Creek watershed for the past week. On Monday August 10th, a […]
Continue readingEcuador Races for Emergency Infrastructure as Riverโs Collapse Threatens Dam
by Antonio Josรฉ Paz Cardona / Mongabay The erosion has progressed at an accelerated rate and has reached other rivers, threatening a national highway and Indigenous communities. Studies commissioned by the Ecuadoran government call for emergency infrastructure to mitigate the erosion, which […]
Continue readingWetโsuwetโen Block Trains in Solidarity with Six Nations
from Warrior Publications [Editor’s Note: The people of Six Nations are Haudenosaunee (also referred to as Iroquois), not Mohawk.] August 8, 2020 (Anonymous Communique) Last night, a group of Wetโsuwetโen barricaded and set fire to the train tracks trespassing on our territory […]
Continue readingArmed Protesters Shut Down Peru Oilfield; Three Killed by Police
by Alex Emery / S&P Global Indigenous protests bought operations to a standstill at Peru’s largest oil field, PetroTal’s Block 95 in the northern Amazon rain forest, just days after a similar attack halted pumping at the state oil company’s North Peruvian […]
Continue readingGermany: Activists Block Shell Refinery in Wesseling / Godorf
Press Release by “No (S)hell On Earth” (google translated by EF!J) Climate activists began blockading the central infrastructure of the Rhineland Shell refineries at 6 this morning. This action of several small groups is called “No (S)hell On Earth,” and takes place […]
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