The Dine’ (Navajo) of Black Mesa (AZ) continue to resist forced relocation and hold back the coal companies that want to strip mine their land. The consistent rain and snow this past winter have been hard on many of the families living on Black Mesa, especially the elders. But the desert thrives on water; there [...]

The Bonneville Power Administration is paying four Indian tribes a total of $900 million to boost fish populations in the US Pacific Northwest, in exchange for an end to those tribes’ calls for dam removal and their support for federal fish management plans. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation (OR), the Confederated Tribes [...]

A good article about the struggle against La Parota dam has been published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While emphasizing and giving due credit to campesino resistance, the article also suggests, interestingly, that part of the reason the Mexican government has refrained from using military force is fear that the Zapatista (EZLN) and the Popular Revolutionary [...]

Two different utilities have filed applications with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build new nuclear reactors in Georgia and South Carolina. Southern Nuclear Operating Co said it filed an application is seeking a a combined construction and operating license to build two new reactors at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia. SCANA [...]

The international Fossil Fools Day of action saw actions across the world targeting fossil fuel infrastructure! Highlights in the Americas include: <—Stumptown Earth First! performed a four-story banner hang off of the Burnside Bridge in downtown Portland, OR. The banner reads “No New Pipelines” with a no LNG logo directly in the middle. The Liquefied [...]

Global oil prices leaped up past $108/barrel after Iraqi insurgents bombed a pipeline near the southern export hub of Basra. Initial estimates said that the loss of the single pipeline might cut Basra’s exports by one-third. The price of oil went down again when it became clear that the damage to the pipeline was not [...]

The Milltown hydroelectric dam near Missoula, Montana has been deliberately breached as part of an effort to remove it in order to remove the 6.6 million cubic yards of toxic heavy metal waste that had accumulated behind it due to mining runoff. The dam was built in 1907 to power a timber mill, which produced [...]

The governments of Argentina and Brazil have revived plans for three new dams on the Uruguay River, a river already devastated by four dams upstream (Itá, Machadinho, Passo Fundo and Barra Grande) and the Salto Grande dam downstream. If built, the Garabí dam — only the first of the three — would flood out 33,000 [...]

The first liquified natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the west coast of North America is scheduled to go operational on April 19, according to a statement by San Diego, CA-based Sempra Energy. Two LNG tankers have been dispatched to test the Energia Costa Azul import and regasification plant in Ensenada, Baja California. Approximately half [...]

The UN special rapporteurs on Adequate Housing (Miloon Khotari) and Fundamental Liberties of Indigenous Peoples (Rodolfo Stavenhagen) have recommended that the Mexican Government suspend all work toward La Parota Dam, finding that the process to date has not respected human rights. Declaring that the government has attempted to impose the dam “by force,” the rapporteurs [...]