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Sen. Harry Reid voices support for Paiute Tribe in interview
2013-08-11 03:49:52| Semiconductors - Topix.net
U.S. Senator Harry Reid isn't taking a break from politics while he's back home in Nevada for the next month.
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Tribe, environmentalists sue NV Energy over coal plant waste
2013-08-09 15:39:15| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Tribal members and environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force NV Energy to clean up the site of a coal-fired power plant the utility plans to shut down by 2017. The Moapa Band of Paiutes and the Sierra Club are calling for the safe removal of a coal ash waste dump next to the Reid Gardner Generating Station, which has operated at the edge of tribal land for almost 50 years. Both groups have sued before over pollution concerns from the plant, but this marks the first lawsuit...
Tribe files lawsuit over Vegas-area coal plant
2013-08-09 04:07:55| Electronics - Topix.net
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Tribe files lawsuit over Vegas-area coal plant
2013-08-09 01:58:53| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Environmentalists and Indians are asking a federal court to order utility company NV Energy to clean up land and water they say has been contaminated by an aging coal-fired power plant slated for closure beginning next year outside Las Vegas.
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Malaysia: Activists raise alarm over park that will dispossess Borneo tribe of land
2013-07-11 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Rights activists are warning that a proposal to classify islands forming in the midst of the Bakun Dam reservoir will further deprive indigenous forest people of their traditional land. The Borneo Project, a Berkeley-based group that advocates on behalf of Sarawak's forest people, has started a petition calling upon Sarawak's chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud to cancel plans to establish "Bakun Islands National Park", highlands that became islands once the massive dam was completed in 2011. The...
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