Petroleum Resistance Stories
Athens County, OH: Farmers and business leaders block the driveway leading to a fracking waste disposal site operated by K&H Partners of West Virginia, Feb 1, 2014 Ohio Farmers and Residents Block...
View ArticleAcross the Continent, Action Against Extraction
Mining mafia money, out of Uruguay! The struggle against expanding the infrastructure of industrial extraction takes many forms: Activists Shut Down Montreal Petro-Conference Lubicon Cree fight...
View ArticleYou’d Think the U.S. Power Grid Would be Harder to Break
Government and industry in the United States sure do seem worried recently that the national power grid is some kind of house of cards, just waiting for the right action to cause widespread disruption...
View ArticleStop the Pipelines: It’s Time for Action
A Houston, TX vigil in solidarity with three MICATS 3, convicted of resisting arrest for a peaceful July 2013 action against Enbridge tar sands pipelines, Feb 6, 2013 Several pipeline struggles are...
View ArticlePeru: Mine Engineer Held by Indigenous Protesters
Indigenous protestors opposed to Newmont Gold’s plans to build the Minas Conga mine in northern Peru From World War 4 Report: An engineer for the Águila Dorada mining company was on Feb. 11 detained by...
View ArticleRising Tide Chicago Warns Governor Against ‘Bad Romance’ with Fracking
Rising Tide Chicago warns Illinois Governor Pat Quinn against a “bad romance” with fracking From Earth First! Newswire: Rising Tide Chicago paid a visit to the Governor’s office today to urge him to...
View ArticleActions Against Fuel Infrastructure
Activists lock their necks together at Florida Power and Light headquarters in protest of the company’s fossil fuel-fired power plant expansion plans, Feb 24, 2014 Baltimore’s Largest-Ever...
View ArticleWestern Maryland: Four Arrested Protesting Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Plan
From Earth First! Newswire: A local Unitarian minister and three western Maryland residents were arrested just before noon today outside the Allegany County Courthouse in Cumberland for peacefully...
View ArticlePipeline News
Enbridge’s planned “rebuild” of the existing Line 3 pipeline does not require a permit from the US President With KXL Bogged Down, Enbridge Pipelines Race Ahead With No Permits Needed In its largest...
View ArticleMegaload Resistance Update
Activists locked to disabled cars blockade a tar sands megaload in Oregon, Dec 16, 2013 From Wild Idaho Rising Tide: Missing Oregon/Idaho Megaload In response to the Idaho Transportation Department’s...
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