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“I’m taking this action to protect my grandchildren’s future”

Just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you cannot stop taking action for what you believe in. And yesterday was a case in point. Two seventy year olds, still putting their bodies on the line for environmental justice and indigenous rights.

Devoid of Democratic Legitimacy, UK Shale Industry Responds with Spin and Violence

History is repeating itself. Just as some of the pioneers of the current environmental movement in the UK, who cut their teeth in the nineties fighting the Tories’ road building programme were demonised and attacked, so are today’s anti-fracking activists.

From North Dakota to Kenya, people power fights fossil fuel infrastructure

People power stopped Keystone XL in its tracks. Now we're seeing human resistance to fossil fuel projects spreading rapidly around the globe.

Nigerian Government Finally Pledges $1Billion to Ogoni Clean-up

Some twenty one years after the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists, there is some hope that finally, finally, the oil polluted Ogoniland in the Niger Delta will begin to be cleaned up from decades of exploitation.

Controversial Utah Tar Sands Mine “Put on Hold”

Every day the low oil price is causing more pain for the oil and gas industry and no company or region is immune from the damage being caused.

Activists Blockade US Tar Sands Mine

Yesterday, about 40 protestors disrupted the work on the Utah tar sands strip mine, the first to be built in the US, located in the Book Cliffs wilderness area.

26 Greenpeace Climbers Say #ShellNo

This morning under the cover of darkness, 26 Greenpeace climbers scaled the St. Johns Bridge in Portland and rappelled over the side.

Scientists Find Toxic Chemicals Near Frack Sites

Last week, a new peer-reviewed study was published by the University of Texas at Arlington which found toxic chemicals in over two-thirds of drinking wells near fracking sites.

Thousands Join Tar Sands Resistance March

It was billed as the biggest anti-tar sands march the American Midwest has ever seen. And they came in their thousands to St. Paul in Minnesota on Saturday.

The Rebel, Oronto Douglas: Memorial for a Friend

If they knew him at all, the world knew Oronto Douglas as the former attorney for the writer, playwright and Ogoni human rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa.