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Woodland Cree, Obsidian energy resolve northern Alberta standoff

CALGARY — An energy company says a First Nations blockade and standoff that kept it from using an oil lease road has been...

By CP11 Jun 2024The Canadian Press

FILE - Wind turbines are seen from Interstate-84, July 9, 2023, near Hammett, Idaho. The federal Bureau of Land Management’s preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink its size by nearly half and move it farther from a national historic site. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

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Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

A proposed wind farm in Idaho may now be moved further from the Minidoka National Historic Site.

By AP10 Jun 2024The Associated Press

This aerial photo taken on Nov. 13, 2023, by Archaeology Southwest with a volunteer pilot and Lighthawk, a nonprofit organization, shows new access roads and tower pad sites west of the San Pedro River, near Redrock Canyon, in Arizona. A U.S. district judge has dismissed claims by Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line. (Archaeology Southwest via AP)

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Challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project dismissed

A US judge has dismissed Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction of a $10bn energy transmission line

By Susan Montoya Bryan6 Jun 2024The Associated Press

Members of Ecuadorean Indigenous organizations and environmental advocacy groups protest demanding that the government should comply with court orders to halt the use of hundreds of gas flares by oil producers in the country's Amazon, in Quito, Ecuador June 5, 2024. REUTERS/Karen Toro

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Ecuador Indigenous, environmental groups protest Petroecuador gas flaring

Ecuadorean Indigenous organizations and environmental advocacy groups are protesting state-run oil company Petroecuador, saying it is failing to comply with a court order...

By Reuters5 Jun 2024Reuters

An Indigenous group that opposed the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline is urging banks and investors not to help finance a proposed second phase of the project. The terminus for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline is seen at the LNG Canada export terminal under construction in Kitimat, B.C., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs urge banks to snub TC Energy bonds

Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation of B.C. have written an open letter to Canada's biggest banks and investors urging them to...

By Amanda Stephenson4 Jun 2024The Canadian Press

FILE PHOTO: A tailings pond at the Suncor tar sands mining operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo

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Canada to assess toxicity of compound found in oil sands tailings

Canada has agreed to assess whether naphthenic acids found in northern Alberta's oilsands tailings ponds should be classed as toxic under federal law.

By Nia Williams30 May 2024Reuters

Brazil has been hard-hit by extreme weather events attributed to climate change, the most recent of which are the historic floods in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul that have left nearly 170 people dead and dozens missing (AFP)

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Rights court takes climate crisis hearing to Brazilian Amazon

Academics, activists and Indigenous people gathered Monday in the Brazilian Amazon to weigh in on a key legal question: What responsibility do states...

By AFP27 May 2024Agence France-Presse