Activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! and Mountain Justice Summer blockaded the Richmond, VA headquarters of Dominion Energy on the morning of June 30. An all-woman team locked down in the street in front of the building, while another woman hung in the street suspended from a bridge.
The action came in response to the VIrginia [...]

The Inter-American Development Bank has issued $800 million worth of loans for the export of liquified natural gas (LNG) from the controversial Camisea gas field in the Peruvian Amazon. Peru plans to build a liquefecation plant, marine terminal and pipeline to enable the exportation of natural gas.
Because natural gas is highly explosive, it must be [...]

In one of its most audacious attacks yet, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked an offshore oil rig for the first time, forcing Shell to shut down the entire oil field and causing a 10% reduction in Nigeria’s oil output.
Before the attack, Nigeria’s output was already 20% below normal following [...]

US President George W. Bush and Republican presidential nominee John McCain have both called for Congress to lift laws that banning oil drilling of the coast of the US.
In a recent speech, Bush also pushed other expansions of petroleum infrastructure including drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, building more oil refineries and mining for [...]

The Nicaraguan government has announced that it will open up the San Cristobal volcano for bidding for the construction of a geothermal plant. San Cristobal is the country’s largest volcano.
According to statements made by President Daniel Ortega and Energy Minister Emilio Rappacioli, Nicaragua plans to build enough new geothermal and hydroelectric (read: big dams) energy [...]

Your assistance is needed to stop coal expansion and support resisters on Black Mesa in the Four Corners region of the USA, traditional territory of the Dine’ (Navajo) and Hopi nations.
1. Traditional Dine’ elder and resister Pauline Whitesinger was informed on May 20 that her construction of a ceremonial structure known as a hogon is [...]

An article from Reuters draws attention to one of the system’s most recent attempts to extend its (ultimately doomed) existence as long as possible: getting around oil shortages by transforming coal into liquid fuel on a massive scale.
Coal-to-liquid (CTL) technology was developed approximately 100 years ago, but has only ever been used by Nazi Germany [...]

On May 25, activists with Asheville Rising Tide broke ground on a new 800 Mw clean energy power plant in Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers front yard in Charlotte, NC. The power plant will tap into a previously unexplored energy source known as hot air which has been found in large concentrations at Roger’s residence, [...]

Five men have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for each of the 26 indigenous campesinas (peasants) that they massacred in Guatemala in 1982, in order to clear the way for the construction of Chixoy Dam. The sentences will run concurrently, so none of the men will serve more than 30 years.
The men were [...]

While hundreds of protesters rallied outside the annual shareholders meeting of NW Natural in protest of the company’s plans for new liquified natural gas (LNG) pipelines, a handful of Stumptown Earth First!ers snuck into the meeting and disrupted it with stink bombs.
“This action is just the beginning of what’s in store for this LNG proposal,” [...]