From Earth First Newswire MINISINK — Equipment at the building site of a $43 million natural gas compressor station has been sabotaged and stolen, according to the developer, Millennium Pipeline Co. Millennium spokesman Steve Sullivan said the damage happened post-Hurricane Sandy, sometime between Oct. 28 and Oct. 31, when construction was halted. Several machines — [...]

From Vancouver Media Co-op: On a sunny Saturday afternoon in East Vancouver, some thirty protesters gathered at a city park and then proceeded to blockade a Shell station located at Clark Drive and 12th Avenue.  Organized by BC Blackout, an anarchist project opposing industrial expansion & resource exploitation in the province, the rally targeted Shell [...]

From Intercontinental Cry The Indigenous Peoples’ Assembly of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Defence of the Land and Territory (APIIDTT) is calling for Indigenous Peoples and the international community at large to stand with the Zapotec Communities in Mexico who are resisting a new corporate wind farm on their land. From the release by the Indigenous [...]

Anti-infrastructure activists everywhere, take note! No Dash for Gas protesters in the UK have set a new standard for badassery. From Earth First! Action Reports: This morning the last two campaigners from No Dash for Gas abseiled down the side of one of the chimneys they have been occupying at EDF’s West Burton power station [...]

From Common Dreams: Dozens of protestors linked arms, barring the doors of TransCanada’s lobbying firm Monday morning to protest in solidarity with the Tar Sands Blockade. The crowd gathered outside the Washington D.C. offices chanting “No pipeline! No tar sands! No destruction of indigenous lands!” According to the Tar Sands Blockade blog, “police were quick [...]

A new blockade including two tree platforms has been set up at the Tar Sands Blockade, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein got arrested doing direct action there. Read more.  

From the Earth First! Newswire “Homes in Clifton, Big Bass Lake, Thornhurst and surrounding areas [turn off] their lights off [on Friday] to show their opposition to proposed power lines being built on their properties. “Part of a weekend of protesting PPL’s plans to build 57 miles of power lines through parts of Luzerne, Lackawanna [...]

This week in Lansing Michigan activists from all walks of life converged to take on the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).  The Michigan DNR was planning to auction off 196,000 acres of mineral rights under private and public lands to be used for Horizontal Hydrolic Fracturing.  The Lansing Center was playing host to the event [...]

From TarSandsBlockade.org: [Yesterday], Defend Our Coast events marked the largest act of non-violent civil disobedience to stop tar sands pipelines and tankers that Canada has ever seen. Communities across BC linked arms to symbolize the unbroken wall of opposition to tar sands tankers and proposed pipelines, like Enbridge’s Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain, and the danger [...]

From Earth First! Action Reports: Drawing connections to all coastal communities threatened by toxic tar sands development, Cherri Foytlin, an indigenous South Louisiana mother of six and wife of a Gulf Coast oilfield worker, chained herself to the gate of a Keystone XL pipeyard [in Winfield, Texas]. Effectively blocking pipe from being shipped to construction [...]