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Tribal Activists Arrested Trying to Block Tar Sands 'Megaload' on Idaho Highway
2013-08-07 07:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Police arrested 19 members of the Nez Perce Tribe on Tuesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct for refusing to break a human chain blocking a highway in Idaho in protest against a 322-ton load of equipment bound for the tar sands of Alberta, Canada. The blockade by more than 250 mostly Native American protesters halted travel of a so-called megaload for two hours on a scenic roadway at the front lines of an ideological struggle over North American oil and gas development and its impact on the environment,...
Activists shut down first US tar sands mine project
2013-07-31 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: Several environmental groups protesting tar sands development in the Book Cliffs region of southeast Utah stopped work Monday on a road that will serve a strip mine to be operated by Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands. Celia Alario, a spokeswoman for Canyon Country Rising Tide and Peaceful Uprising, said dozens of protesters had peacefully stopped road building on Seep Ridge Road and also interrupted mining operations at the East Tavaputs Plateau site. Protesters surrounded heavy equipment and, in some...
Gay activists shun Russian vodka
2013-07-30 18:02:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Gay protest against Russian crackdown spreads to London
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Anti-Keystone activists keep the heat on
2013-07-30 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Dozens of activists young, old, and in between walked 100 miles, from Camp David in Maryland to the White House, to call attention to their campaign for climate action and Keystone rejection. The Walk for Our Grandchildren, which wrapped up over the weekend, was one of many climate actions being coordinated all around the U.S. this summer. Jay Mallin captured the highlights on video: Some of the marchers also got themselves arrested at the D.C. office of Environmental Resources Management,...
Exxon Mobil Targeted by Activists
2013-07-28 22:57:11| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil has recently found itself the target of activist Bill McKibben who is well known for publicizing the Keystone XL oil pipeline issue.
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