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Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray

2016-09-04 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Democracy Now!: On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline`s construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakotas Bakken oilfield to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada. Democracy Now! was on the ground at Saturdays action...

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North Dakota oil pipeline protesters stand their ground: 'This is sacred land'

2016-08-29 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Cannonball river flows into the mighty Missouri about 50 miles due south of Bismarck, North Dakota. At its confluence, a protest encampment really a series of camps, on both sides of the Cannonball, strewn with kitchens and canteens, portable toilets, stabling for horses, sweat lodges and tall teepees, and stands selling indigenous art has sprung up. The inhabitants are there to block the planned $3.7bn Dakota Access Pipeline, which would transport fracked crude from the Bakken oil...

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Protesters arrested after blocking rail tracks

2016-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Police arrested more than 20 people who formed a human blockade on tracks near the Washington-Oregon border in response to a recent oil train derailment along the Columbia River. More than a 100 protesters attended Saturdays demonstration in Vancouver. Organizers with the Fossil Fuel Resistance Network, which formed after the June 3 Mosier derailment, said they expected to be arrested. A news release says that the protest was held to highlight risks associated with fossil fuel extraction and transportation....

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Lonely struggle of India's anti-nuclear protesters

2016-06-06 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Behind the Lourdes Matha church in Idinthakarai, a fishing village at the southern tip of India, five women have abandoned their chores to protest at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Today is day 1,754 of their relay hunger strike, which began when the plant was fuelled in 2011. Celine, 73, is among the five protestors, who take it in turns to go without food. Not a single government, not a single political party is willing to take up our cause, she says. Only Mother Mary can save us now....

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