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• Coordinated Direct Action Against Maules Creek Mine Suspends Work at Several...

  

  Two protesters scaled a coal loader and dropped a banner at Whitehaven’s Werris Creek mine. (photo courtesy Leard Forest Alliance) by Tim Lamacraft /... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Tseshaht Close Access to Territory

  

  from Ancestral PrideUnceded Tseshaht First Nation Traditional Territory (October 1, 2014)Effective October 2, 2014 at 3:00 am, all access to Tseshaht Traditiona... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Leaked Documents Reveal World Bank’s Complicity in Violent Evictions of Thousand...

  

  The Bank’s management acknowledged they “would not be able to implement the land related commitments” Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Canada Is Now the World’s Leading ‘Deforestation Nation’

  

  Half of global deforestation and degradation occurred in Canada, Russia and Brazil Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Riot Police Deployed Against European Central Bank Protest

  

  from ReutersHundreds of protesters faced off riot police on Thursday outside the Capodimonte palace in the southern Italian city of Naples where the European... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• #TBT Mattole Defenders Take to the Woods

  

  Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) is trying to begin clearcutting the second largest intact stand of lowland old-growth Douglas fir in California. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• A Message to Potential MCW Energy Ivestors: #NOTARSANDS

  

  Turns out MCW Energy, another Canadian tar sands strip-mining company, was “unveiling its proprietary, oil sands extraction technology near Vernal, Utah." Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Puerto Rico’s Green Crusaders Still Going Strong

  

  Model Forest: some 379,000 acres and link 20 existing natural protected areas through ecological corridors Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Feds Have Filed To Keep Kevin Olliff in Custody After Completion of State...

  

  Kevin Johnson, 27 and his codefendant, Tyler Lang, 25, allegedly released the animals from a mink farm in Morris, 65 miles southwest of Chicago, last August,... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Oklahoma Activists Disrupt Devon Energy Board Member at Fracking Event

  

  “No matter how many lies you tell, how many politicians you buy, how many skyscrapers you build, it will not wash away the oil you have spilled,” Local... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Video: Klabona Keepers – Shutdown Imperial

  The Klabona Keepers in alliance with the Secwepemc lit a estsu kun’desk’āke (Grandmothers Fireplace) at the entrance of Imperial Metals Red Chris Mine to... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Hambach Forest Blockade “Brutally Attacked”

  

  The de­mons­tra­ti­ons against the on­go­ing cle­aran­ce of the Ham­bach Fo­rest con­ti­nue at the gates of Eu­ro­pe’s big­gest open cast mine. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Villagers to Re-Occupy Land Acquired for Posco Project

  

  “Land has been acquired for the steel project in pen and paper and some patches by use of force. But, villagers are determined to re-occupy land which had been... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Monsanto Announces ‘Global Center’ for Developing GMO Corn

  

  Monsanto announced this week that it is opening a new facility in Mexico to research and develop new genetically modified versions of corn. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• MICATS Protester Ordered Back to Trial for Skateboarding into Enbridge Pipe

  

  An Enbridge pipeline protester—now a candidate for U.S. Senate—will stand trial over his daylong occupation of the under-construction pipeline in June 2013. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Video: BBC Coverage of UK Arsons

  A BBC segment on the recent wave of arsons in the UK Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Concerned Citizens Disrupt Devon Energy “Liberal Mouthpiece” Robert Henry

  

  That time someone called Robert Henry a "liberal mouth-piece" of corporate greed. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Tahtlan Blockade Imperial Metals’ Red Chris Mine

  

  The sacred fire lit by the Secwepemc women on August 18th has spread, is spreading. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Devastation of Mining and War Censored, Pacific Islanders Withdraw Support for...

  

  In October, Pacific Islanders will block the world's largest coal port in canoes. Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Ayoreo Indians Protest at Government Inaction Over Illegal Deforestation

  

  Ayoreo Indians protest against Yaguareté Porã S.A. which is rapidly destroying their forest home for beef production.© GATfrom Survival... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 ENVIRONMENT