The Arizona Department of Transportation has awarded FNF Construction of Tempe, AZ, a $43.2 million contract to build a four-lane highway to allow freight traffic to bypass San Luis, AZ, on the way to and from a new US-Mexico border crossing. The new Arizona Highway 195 would link Interstate 8 in Yuma to the crossing [...]

The Peruvian government declared a state of emergency (martial law) today in three provinces affected by ongoing indigenous occupations and blockades of energy infrastructure. The government has banned public gatherings and free movement within the northern province of Amazonas and the southern provinces of Loreto and Cuzco, where hundreds of indigenous protesters have seized and [...]

The government of the Crow Tribe has signed a 50-year deal with Australian-American Energy Co. to build and operate a plant to convert coal into liquid fuel. The plant would be supplied by new coal mines on the Crow reservation in Montana.
The quadrupling of oil prices in the last decade has suddenly made coal-to-liquid (CTL) [...]

An in-depth analysis of the current legal situation faced by the effort to stop I-69 (a Corridor of the Future) has been posted on the web site of Roadblock EF! (read the whole thing here).
Highlights include:
• 15 activists arrested at a recent lockdown at a Gohmann Asphalt facility in Haubstadt, IN, are facing one to [...]

Brazil’s environment minister has granted a license for the San Antonio Dam along the Madeira River in the Amazon basin. San Antionio is one of two dams planned for the river. The rights to build it have already been auctioned off to a group led by Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht, and construction is expected to be [...]

President Bush has issued an executive order granting “national priority” status to the Columbia River Crossing (also known as the Interstate 5 Bridge between Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash, and recipient of a Corridors of the Future grant). This means that federal agencies are required to prioritize and expedite the environmental review process for the [...]

On July 31, Mexican Interior Minister publicly promised to directly intervene to pave the way for the construction of La Parota dam, drawing immediate condemnation from the Council of Ejidos and Communities in Opposition to La Parota Dam (CECOP; the primary indigenous/peasant organization fighting the dam) and the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre in La Montaña.
“This [...]

Budget shortfalls have led to the indefinite postponement of plans to widen several sections of I-10 in Texas, although construction is still proceeding on some portions.
Plans to widen 85 miles of I-10 (from four lanes to six) between the Lousiana border and Harris County began almost 10 years ago, and work has been completed from [...]

As previously promised, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta attacked two Shell oil pipelines on July 28, as a way of rebutting charges that it had taken government money in order to leave such infrastructure alone.
“In keeping with our pledge to resume pipeline attacks within the next 30 days, detonation engineers backed [...]

If we needed another reminder that the system cannot be reformed, but instead needs to be taken down….
In a post on his blog, Glenn Switkes, the Latin America Program Director for International Rivers Network, looks at Brazil’s current energy infrastructure boom and concludes that becoming part of the government inevitably corrupts even those with good [...]