Illegal sand mining near Mount Merapi / courtesy Jakarta Post
Hundreds of residents from four villages on the slopes of Mount Merapi in Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, have taken it into their own hands to stop illegal sand mining near their homes and demand that Sleman regency take firm action.
They also took a stand by driving out heavy machinery from the sand quarry.
Continue reading Indonesian Villagers Drive Out Illegal Miners, Heavy Machines, Excavators
After attacking and shutting down an oil field in Ecuador in early January, most of the Waorani warriors who were arrested for the attack will be tried soon for sabotage and paralysis of public services according to various reports.
Continue reading Indigenous Warriors Who Shut Down Oil Facility in Ecuador Arrested
La transnacional Endesa de origen español fusionada con la transnacional Enel de origen italiana, ambas con capitales de sus respectivos estados, nuevamente sale a la palestra sobre acaparamientos de aguas y amenazas hidroeléctricas en territorios ancestrales. Esta vez en la zona de Curacautín, región de la Araucanía.
Continue reading Amenazas hidroeléctricas en la Araucanía: Transnacional Endesa acapara aguas en Curacautín
(photo of a woman photo by Jeremy Kryt An U’wa mother waits to see a doctor in the Reserve’s lone, tiny clinic at Chuscal. Due to lack of funding, basic health care is hard to come by, especially in far-flung parts of the Reserve.)
Continue reading Guns, Farms, and Oil: How Colombian Tribes are Being Driven to Extinction
[EF! Newswire editor’s note: The following piece is an adapted translation from a Radio Macondo FM broadcast transcribed by <a href="http://www.conflictosmineros.net/contenidos/10-colombia/17396-violencia-policial-para-imponer-mineria-en-landazuri"
Continue reading Colombia: Police Violence Erupts as Inhabitants Oppose Mining Industry
#HoldingTheLine Trappers in the far north part of Saskatchewan have been trying to protect their way of life for the past 6 ½ years against resource company expansion into their traditional trapline areas. They are licensed trappers with a legal right to hunt and trap in those areas, but legally this is counted only as ‘surface rights’ while the companies have been given ‘mineral rights’ which the Federal and Provincial governments consider more important.
Continue reading Trappers Resisting “Number One New Uranium Project in the World”
Shale oil and gas reserves in Mexico are a vast source of potential wealth, but the potential for humanitarian or environmental disasters is immense.
In August 2014, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law an energy reform bill that opens up the country’s sizable oil and gas industry to private and foreign investment for the first time in 75 years. The new legislation permits the use of fracking, after a majority of senators rejected a clause that would have prohibited the controversial technique.
Continue reading Fracking in Mexico Gets Green Light During 2014
(A London, Ontario RBC branch)
On December 15 more than a dozen affiliates of Enbridge and the Tar Sands have been locked out of their workplaces throughout Ontario. Individuals in 9 cities have participated.
Continue reading Tar Sands Activists Lock Doors to Banks and Offices Throughout Ontario
(Demonstrators are attacked by police Dec 8, Montreal)
Montreal police have arrested two demonstrators and fined two more, as a group of protesters clashed with police at a demonstration against Quebec’s proposed Northern Plan mining project in Montreal on a frigid Monday morning.
Two will be charged with assault, according to police.
Continue reading Police Clamp Down on Plan Nord Demonstrators in Downtown Clash