A banner targeting UBS Bank for its investment in mountaintop removal coal mining, Stamford, CT, Nov 25, 2013
Ohio Activists Block Fracking Wastewater Injection
Two Youngstown, OH community members were arrested [Sunday] at a nonviolent protest and rally at a fracking wastewater injection well site in Niles, OH. The two protesters were arrested for blocking trucks from entering the well site while holding a “Fracking Hurts Communities” banner. More than 50 people from Ohio and Pennsylvania attended the rally.
Protests Delay Oregon Megaload
As promised, about 20 protesters gathered on a toe-numbing Sunday night and waited for the first of three “megaloads” to leave the Port of Umatilla hauling massive refinery equipment into the oil sands of Alberta, Canada. Yet the shipment never budged, sitting under towering floodlights while workers with the Hillsboro-based Omega Morgan continued to prepare the oversized transport for its first leg south through Hermiston and east into Pendleton.
Three More Arrests at Elsipogtog Protests
Activists Deliver Blasting Dust to WV State Capital, Commence Hunger Strike Over Mountaintop Removal
Protesters Lock Down Over Mountaintop Removal Financing
Early this morning, three activists hung a huge banner reading “UBS: Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal” off of a crane … in downtown Stamford[, CT]. Later in the day two activists entered the UBS headquarters in Stamford, locking themselves to a bannister and hanging a banner reading “UBS. Divest from Mountaintop Removal”, while others locked themselves to the outside doors of the building. The protests are a part of the Hands Off Appalachia, a sustained campaign to get UBS to end all financing of companies conducting mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.