ELN launches attack against oil pipeline infrastructure in Colombia
By Andrew Wight & Taran Volckhausen / Colombia Reports Colombia’s second largest rebel group the ELN detonated explosives Wednesday at four crude oil holding pools along the Caño Limon – Coveñas...
View ArticleSunoco oil pipeline ruptures, spilling up to 10,000 gallons of crude into...
By Reuters A major oil pipeline owned by Sunoco Logistics Partners LP leaked thousands of gallons of crude oil into a nature preserve in southwest Ohio late on Monday. Between 7,000 and 10,000 gallons...
View Article500 Achuar take control of major oil field in Peru, demand cleanup of spills
By Dan Collyns / The Guardian Around 500 Achuar indigenous protesters have occupied Peru’s biggest oil field in the Amazon rainforest near Ecuador to demand the clean-up of decades of contamination...
View ArticleEcuador allows oil drilling in UNESCO reserve in Amazon, home to indigenous...
By Agence France-Presse The license comes just days after a petition for a referendum on the project was rejected by the country’s election authorities. The action, signed by Environment Minister...
View ArticleWaorani warriors attack, shut down oilfield in Ecuador
By Mongabay Indigenous leaders are calling for the release of six tribesmen implicated in a raid on an oilfield in Eastern Ecuador that left six soldiers injured, reports Andina and El Comercio....
View ArticleAchuar seize 14 oil wells in Peru, demanding compensation for exploitation
By teleSUR Indigenous communities in Peru occupied 14 oil wells, paralyzing South American energy firm Pluspetrol’s production, in a protest to demand better compensation for the use of their land....
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Rising Tensions in Bolivia Over Oil and Gas Exploitation on Indigenous Lands
by Fionuala Cregan / Intercontinental Cry On August 19, members of the People’s Guarani Assembly of Takova Mora blocked a main highway in the Chaco region of Bolivia demanding their right to free,...
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Battleground BC: Phase Two of the Resistance
By Zoe Blunt, Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network In every part of the province, industry is laying waste to huge areas of wilderness – unceded indigenous land – for mining, fracking, oil,...
View ArticleVictory for U’wa Nation
CASE ON INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS AND EXTRACTIVE PROJECTS MOVES FORWARD AT INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS by EarthRights International / Intercontinental Cry Washington, DC – The U’wa Nation...
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Hidden Danger of the Keystone Pipeline Celebration
photo source by Clay Cochran / Deep Green Resistance “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” -Robert Frost...
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