In coordinated protests that began on Saturday, August 9, indigenous Peruvians have blockaded and shut down energy infrastructure in both the north and south of the large country.
In the southern Amazonian province of Cusco, hundreds of indigenous protesters occupied Lot 56 of the controversial Camisea gas field, forcing the company to cease extraction there. Argentine [...]

An anti-climate-change march through the streets of Richmond, VA concluded today with a lockdown at the Bank of America building.
Police presence in Richmond was heavy at the end of the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action. Nonetheless, 50 protesters took part in an unpermitted march through the streets of the city, punctuated by rallies at the [...]

July 8: Ten Ecuadorians were arrested while protesting plans for the private Hidrotambo hydroelectric dam along the Dulcepamba river in Chillanes canton, Bolivar province. The arrests came after a six-month land occupation in opposition to the dam. (Got any more info on this? Let us know! This came only from a brief mention in a [...]

Activists from Greenpeace shut off a tailings pond sludge pipe at an Alberta Tar Sands operation on Thursday, July 24, locking down to the valve pipe and deploying several banners calling for an end to tar sands mining. Eleven people were arrested.
The protest took place at the Aurora North Tar Sands facility north of Fort [...]

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 [...]