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Press Release: Day of Action
For immediate release May 14, 2010 Contact: David Lee or Kim Marks, Rising Tide North America: 702-527-2742 Dr. Rachel Smolker, BiofuelWatch: 802-482-2848 Crude...
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Brazil: court orders Chevron to suspend drilling
Source: World War 4 Report, 08/05/2012 A federal court in Brazil on Aug. 1 ordered Chevron and drilling company Transocean to suspend all oil drilling in the country within 30 days in the wake of two...
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A generational stance on behalf of the Arctic Ocean
By Terry Tempest Williams, August 14, 2012. Source: Common Dreams In less than a week, the Obama administration may well approve Shell Oil’s plans to do exploratory drilling in America’s Arctic Ocean....
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Ecuador: More Amazon drilling, and a ‘conservation’ scheme
Note: These two reports coming from Ecuador on Friday illustrate the type of initiatives and policies being pushed under the ‘Green Economy,’ in which companies and countries demand large sums of money...
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Indigenous protests grow as Ecuador auctions Amazon oil blocks
November 28 2012. Source: Upside Down World, Amazon Watch Quito – Hundreds of indigenous people gathered outside the Marriott Hotel in Quito today at the VII Annual Meeting of Oil and Energy where the...
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Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege
Note: Looks like time-tested colonial practices of lying, deceit and outright theft are alive and well in the Bakken shale. The below story is not an isolated incident of corruption, but an example of...
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‘Deer don’t vote’: Quebec island quietly cleared for fracking
By Nicolas Van Praet, June 5, 2013. Source: The Province An opposition party says the Quebec government has quietly approved hydraulic fracturing on Anticosti, warning that the picturesque island...
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Ecuador: Clashes at Quito protest over oil drilling in Yasuni reserve
August 30, 2013. Source: World War 4 Report Indigenous and environmentalist protesters clashed with police in Ecuador Aug. 27, as a mobilization dubbed a zapateo (foot-stamping) against plans to open...
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Ecuador Congress Approves Yasuni Basin Oil Drilling in Amazon
Note: A perfect example of why holding critical biodiversity reserves hostage and demanding payment for their protection (AKA payment for environmental services) is a really stupid and dangerous idea....
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The debate on Yasuni continues
Note: Thanks, Patrick for offering another perspective on the Yasuni oil drilling debacle (though we still don’t believe that money can solve the problems caused by capitalism…) –The GJEP Team From...
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Repsol sells oil stake in ‘isolated’ Indigenous People’s territory in...
By David Hill, March 13, 2014. Source: Upside Down World Oil and gas company Repsol is selling its stake in controversial oil operations in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by indigenous...
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Ecuador rejects vote on Amazon oil drilling in Yasuni park
May 6, 2014. Source: BBC Ecuador has rejected a petition for a referendum on whether the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon should be opened to further oil exploration. The National Electoral Council...
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Russia: Khanty take action to stop road construction through sacred site
By Iwgia, May 5, 2014. Source: Intercontinental Cry Oil workers are trying unsuccessfully to extend a road to an oil field through a sacred lichen grove on Khanty ancestral lands 180km from...
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