A truck belonging to the construction company Peter Kiewit Sons’ was torched on Tuesday, July 22 in response to the company’s involvement in widening the Sea to Sky Highway in unceded Coast Salish territory (illegally occupied by the Canadian government as “British Columbia”).
The highway is being expanded to accommodate increased traffic for the 2010 Winter [...]

It’s not just Ecuador: communities across the continent are fighting the presence of large-scale mines, and in many cases even turning them back.
Starting with a victory: on June 25, the Alexander Gold mining company announced its decision to abandon the $40 million Leon copper mine project in the province of Salta, Argentina, citing uncertainty due [...]

The government of Peru declared a state of emergency on Friday July 18, after a crack was discovered in the tailings dump for a major ore mine. If the tailings pond is breached, thousands of tons of toxic metals and chemicals could pour into the Rimac River, major water source for the capital city of [...]

On July 12, members of the Peruvian community of Chilcaymarca began blocking an access road leading to the Orcopampa gold mine, owned and operated by Cia. de Minas Buenaventura SA. The company acknowledged on July 14 that production continues to be negatively affected by the blockade. It said only that the community had “decided to [...]

A weeklong uprising in Peru’s Moquegua region has placed strain on copper supplies worldwide.
The unrest began as a small protest over how little in the way of mining profits was being used to help residents of the region, but quickly swelled to 20,000 people blocking major highways and railways, including a border crossing into Chile. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) has condemned the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues’ (PFII) rejection of calls for a moratorium on fossil fuel extraction on indigenous land. Instead of opposing the burning of fossil fuels, the PFII endorsed the practice by lending its support to carbon trading schemes.
During the meeting of the PFII, indigenous [...]

Fifty Chilean activists protested against Barrick Gold’s infamous planned Pascua Lama mine on May 8. Protesters carried giant bags of ice to symbolize the glaciers that are being destroyed by the project, dressed in black bags to commemorate the 15 people who have died as a result of the mine, and spray-painted the company’s office [...]