There is an escalating tension in Canada between the Albertan and British Columbian (B.C) Governments over the disputed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is due to transport tar sands from Alberta to the B.C Coast.
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One Year of Trump
One year into Donald Trump’s presidency and the chaotic vortex is as dysfunctional as ever.
The Arctic – Our Climate Canary in the Coal Mine – Issues Further Warnings
There are further warning signs regarding climate change from Alaska, now seen as the US’ canary in the coal mine. Earlier this month, as New York shivered – Alaska sweltered.
After a Decades-Long Battle, Congress Votes to Open ANWR to Oil Drilling
Yesterday, the decades-old struggle over what is America’s last wilderness area, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), was reopened when Congress voted to open the Refuge to oil drilling.
Trump Plans “Illegal” Assault on Sacred Utah National Monuments
Next week, Trump’s attack on First Nations will get worse, when he is due to fly into Utah to make a formal announcement that he will reduce the size of the iconic and sacred Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
Amnesty: Investigate Shell’s “Complicity in murder, rape and torture” in Nigeria
Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into Shell’s complicity in “murder, rape and torture in Nigeria” in the nineties.
Fracking in Australia: “It’s not safe, not trusted and not wanted”
The fracking industry is facing mounting opposition in Australia.
Protesters Continue to Defy Shell by Occuping Plant in Nigeria
The decades’ long struggle for social and environmental justice in the Niger Delta continues, largely unseen by the wider world.
Native Nations Rise March in DC Takes on “Tyranny” of Trump Administration
Tomorrow the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which have been leading the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, will take their fight to the oil-loving Trump Administration by marching on the White House.
“They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started”
Once again Big Oil has been forced to rely on brutal militarized force to bludgeon, bully, beat and intimidate peaceful water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. But in the face of such violence and intimidation, the growing movement against new fossil fuels will not be intimidated, it will only grow.