Opponents of new salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds deployed their own patrol vessels in a protest flotilla today. Guardians of the Sounds chairman Peter Beech said people wanted to show their opposition to King Salmon’s application to build nine more fish […]

Cross Posted from Commercial Appeal.com Royal Dutch Shell PLC is suing Greenpeace International in an attempt to have the environmental organization banned from holding any protest within 500 meters of any Shell property, or face a 1 million euros ($1.3 million) fine. […]

Cross Posted from Tar Sands Blockade.org Following a weekend of nonviolent civil disobedience training in North Texas by Tar Sands Blockade, dozens of protesters and supporters are rallying today at the site of the largest and longest tree sit in Texas history […]

Cross Posted from CAPR Leah -Lynn Plante was imprisoned at SeaTac Federal Detention Center yesterday by Judge Richard Jones for refusing to comply with a grand jury investigation. She will be in there for an indefinite length of time, potentially up to […]

Frankfort, Kentucky – With a goal of restoring water quality and protecting public health from the impacts of coal mining in eastern Kentucky, a coalition of public interest groups and citizens today filed in Franklin County Circuit Court a historic settlement with […]

Cross Posted from Eye on the Arctic and Ecological Internet Environmental activists have been celebrating a victory on Gotland Island, off the coast of southeast Sweden, as tree felling machinery remained idle on Saturday evening. “It was a smart and brave decision,” field […]

Below is an article published in a mainstream newspaper called the Globe and Mail about the apparent demise of the much maligned Gateway pipeline, proposed to carry Tar Sands oil from Alberta Canada all the way to the Pacific coast, slashing through […]