Dick Pool, President of Water for Fish, discusses the deep relationship between salmon population collapses and decreased river flows on the San Joaquin River and its tributaries. One day before the State Water Resources Control Board’s hearing on increased flows for the San Joaquin River and its three tributaries was held in Sacramento on August … Continued
Hiking near Benson, Arizona, site of the proposed Rosemont mine Some good green news for a change in southern Arizona, where Trump’s Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil industry lobbyist and lawyer, has bent over backwards to help his mining and developer friends dig mines and build giant housing developments in sensitive ecological zones … Continued
Tar sands mine site in Canada. The evidence that the pipelines aren’t needed is overwhelming. The idea that they would create significant numbers of jobs is laughable. The threat they represent to the environment—both directly, and indirectly—is sizable. But the money Trump was handed by pipeline promoters didn’t stop at contributing to his campaign. They … Continued
The Lakota Creation Story explains how Skan (that which moves everything, the sky, the Great Spirit) came from the waters on earth after Inyan (soft, shapeless, and had all power), created Ina Maka (Earth Mother) and Inyan became the rock after draining himself of his blood. The story tells how Inyan’s blue blood became the … Continued
Daniel Ilario and María De Lime Dorsey of Idle No More, San Francisco Bay, protest Jerry Brown’s speech at the New York Times Climate Tech Summit in San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Idle No More, San Francisco Bay. On the evening of November 29, 2017, over a dozen climate justice activists protested Governor Jerry Brown’s … Continued
Lakota leaders including (clockwise from top left) Standing Rock’s Phyllis Young, Oglala Sioux Tribe President Julian Bear Runner, Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier, and Rosebud President Rodney Bordeaux have come together to call for a public hearing on a proposal which would nearly double the oil running through the Dakota Access pipeline. The following is … Continued
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: A Rebel with a Cause LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established the Sacred Stone camp on her own property near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in order to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. On May 24, I had the privilege of hearing her speak when she was recognized by Conservation Colorado as … Continued
#NoDAPL TV Spot Exposes Discrimination and Hypocrisy in Moving of Dakota Access Route YouTube Video To our netroots relatives: We want you to know that, despite the raids clearing the frontline camps, our movement to stop the Dakota Access pipeline isn’t over by a long shot. Oil has not yet begun to flow, and new … Continued
Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), who called overwhelmingly peaceful #NoDAPL protesters “violent,” has been named the new chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The incoming Republican-controlled Senate has named John Hoeven, a staunch proponent of the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, as the new chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. “I am … Continued
Anshutz Exploration Corp., an energy exploration company that has been searching for oil and gas on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, has just announced that it would cease drilling and shut down the project. The company notified the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council of its decision on Monday. The Blackfeet Reservation’s western boundary forms the … Continued
