Three down, three to go! From Columbia River Keeper: Citizen across the Northwest can breathe easier today. Caving under the pressure of overwhelming public opposition, Kinder Morgan announced its decision to walk away from plans for a massive coal export terminal near Clatskanie, Oregon along the Columbia River. The announcement is sending shockwaves across the [...]

A grassroots campaign against the construction of a biomass waste incineration energy facility in Greenfield, Massachusetts declared a victory on Wednesday, April 17 when the Town Council voted 11-0 to impose a moratorium on all new permits for waste to energy incinerators and on biomass incineration exceeding 1 million btus/hr. The moratorium will expire on [...]

From International Rivers: A federal appeals court (TRF-1) in Brazil has ordered the suspension of “Operation Tapajós,” a military and police intervention organized to control indigenous protests over technical studies on their lands in preparation for the controversial São Luíz do Tapajós Dam in the Amazonian state of Pará. Judge João Batista Moreira ruled that [...]

From Common Dreams: ConocoPhillips announced Wednesday that it was putting its Arctic drilling plans for 2014 on hold, news environmental groups cheered as they continue to campaign to save the region from the pursuit of fossil fuels. “Another oil company shelving its plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean is good for the whales, polar [...]

Three stories of mines resistance from our southern neighbors: • Four hundred protesters stormed the planned site of the Minas Conga mine in Yanacocha, Peru, and set fire to construction equipment yesterday. Minas Conga would be the biggest gold mine in Peru, and has been the target of sustained protests from local indigenous residents who [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire, Cross Posted from TDN: The last investor of a proposed Coos Bay coal terminal has dropped out, leaving three coal export terminal projects still alive on the Columbia River. According to the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay, negotiations on a lease agreement Metropolitan Stevedore Company of Wilmington, Calif., known [...]

From the Earth First! Newswire: by Sasha Ah, the epic story of infrastructure resistance! The Palomar Liquid National Gas (LNG) Pipeline wants to reconfigure zoning laws to build their pipeline, so the Clatsup County [Oregon] Board of Commissioners put to a referendum whether or not to alter the zoning laws. Understood as a referendum on [...]

It seems sabotage is an effective tactic, after all, although in this case it was Mother Nature doing the deed. From Common Dreams: To the cheers of environmental groups, Shell announced on [Feb. 27] it was suspending its 2013 Arctic drilling program following a mishap-laden year in which its “ships have caught fire, run aground, [...]

Maybe this can be the inspiration for U.S. activists to adopt the perspective of Latin American anti-mines activism? From Huffington Post: One of Appalachia’s biggest coal companies is getting out of the mountaintop removal business. In a landmark announcement, Patriot Coal, one of Appalachia’s three largest mountaintop removal companies, has signed a settlement agreement with [...]

Anti-infrastructure activists everywhere, take note! No Dash for Gas protesters in the UK have set a new standard for badassery. From Earth First! Action Reports: This morning the last two campaigners from No Dash for Gas abseiled down the side of one of the chimneys they have been occupying at EDF’s West Burton power station [...]