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 [...]

From Bangor Daily News, by way of the Earth First! Newswire: SEARSPORT, Maine — Opponents of a controversial liquid propane gas terminal and storage tank project reacted with cheers and relief Tuesday to the news that the developers are withdrawing their application. … DCP Midstream first approached the town of Searsport about building the project — [...]

From Survival International: The Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeast Peru into one of the most biodiverse places on earth, following a shock exposure this week by The Guardian newspaper and Survival International. The company has released a statement in which it admitted [...]

There’s more than one way to stop a mega-project! From the National Post (Canada): In early 2011, while visiting our relatives’ farm near Melancthon in Dufferin County, Ont., my wife and I learned about the now infamous “mega quarry” proposal tabled by The Highland Companies, which were looking to turn the area’s rolling hills into [...]

From DeSmogBlog: Today, SUNY Buffalo closed the doors of its Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI), what we at DeSmog have described as an epicenter for “frackademia” and a public relations front for the oil and gas industry to promote hydraulic fracturing (“fracking“) under the guise of scientific legitimacy that a university offers. A letter [...]

From the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance: Huichapan community, in the central México’s state of Hidalgo, has achieved a historic victory, after 6 months of peaceful protests and legal actions that drove to the closure of the plant of Proambiente company, a subsidiary of Cementos Mexicanos, CEMEX, by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources. This plant [...]

From Indian Country Today Media Network: “In a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that an Amazonian indigenous community could limit outsiders’ access to its territory and upheld the principle of communal autonomy. … “Besides upholding the community’s territorial rights, the tribunal ordered a lower court to nullify the convictions of [...]

From Intercontinental Cry The Achuar Peoples have a won a major victory in their eight-year struggle against a Canadian oil company in the Amazon rainforest. Yesterday, Talisman Energy announced that it will be withdrawing from the Achuar’s ancestral territory–and all of Peru–just as soon as it finishes some ongoing commercial transactions. “We have fought long [...]

La Parota Dam has been definitively canceled. The government of Guerrero has formally abandoned all plans for the dam and will inform the Mexican federal government that it will not approve its construction. After nearly 10 years of struggle, campesin@s fighting to defend their way of life from La Parota Dam won a definitive victory [...]

From Cascadia Rising Tide: “After a five-year long grassroots organizing push by a broad coalition of Oregonians and Southern Washingtonians, NorthernStar, the Texas-based company proposing the Bradwood LNG terminal on Columbia River, has indefinitely suspended development of the LNG terminal and filed for bankruptcy. This is wonderful news for anyone in the region concerned with [...]