A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years ago to emphasize its opposition to a planned expansion by Kinder Morgan. Wilderness Committee (WC) will hold a demonstration on Saturday, Aug. 27 […]
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Exxon causes oil spill in Yellowstone
Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and […]
Continue readingCanadian Tar Sands Pipeline Still Opposed by EPA
Landowners, agriculture group keeping up the fight against eminent domain and the Keystone XL pipeline. Is the State Department listening? By Kate Schwab, 6-23-11 As the third phase of work on the international Keystone XL pipeline looms, the foreign corporation behind the […]
Continue readingPuerto Rican Pipeline Protests Extend to New York
NEW YORK—Local Puerto Rican leaders and activists gathered outside Federal Plaza on Thursday to demand that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deny the permits for a proposed gas pipeline requested by the Puerto Rico Electric and Power Authority (PREPA). “This gas […]
Continue readingObama Vows to Increase Oil Production in US: Drill Baby Drill
by the Earth First! Journal Collective Heads up Gulf coasters and Alaskans, Obama wants more of what is killing you and the ecosystems that would sustain you. In his weekly radio address this week, President Obama announced he will set into motions […]
Continue readingFarmers, environmentalists blockade coal seam gas pipeline in Australia
An environmental activist has been arrested at a human blockade protesting against the construction of a coal seam gas pipeline on Queensland’s Western Downs. Friends of the Earth campaigner Drew Hutton was arrested at 2.20pm (AEST) on Tuesday at the Tara Estate, […]
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