Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S...

Full Text of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association Statement Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2013
On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the national interest and in fact ...

Fill Gaps in Keystone XL Draft Environment Report or Reject Pipeline, NCAI Tells Obama Administration

ICTMN Staff
May 02, 2013
Noting a lack of “critical information” about potential impacts to water supply, sacred sites and other aspects of tribal life governed by treaty and environmental stewardship, the...

Suzy Chaffee: ‘Snow Gratitude’ Ceremonies Key to Reenergizing Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff
May 01, 2013
Last year, ICTMN presented a series of stories, including The Southern Utes Snow Dance Works Wonders on Weather , concerning the use of Native wisdom and tribal traditions to honor...
Ruth Hopkins

Keystone XL Equals Death

Last week, grassroots opponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline hoping to halt its development were successful in submitting over 1 million comments before the State Department’s established April 22, 2013 deadline....

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April 30, 2013

'Oil 4 Blood,' by Frank Waln: An Environmental Hip Hop Poem for National Poetry Month and Earth Day

ICTMN Staff
April 22, 2013
It's a misconception that poetry is a dying art—sure, we may never see a TONY-winning play written in iambic pentameter, and the stories of the 21st century won't be told in a 15,0...

Red Lake Band of Chippewa Determined in Blockade Atop Four Enbridge Pipelines in Minnesota

David P. Ball
April 04, 2013
More than a month after members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa set up camp atop four oil pipelines to protest Enbridge Inc.’s alleged lack of easements across their tribal territ...

Arkansas Spill Fuels Arguments for Keystone XL Opponents

ICTMN Staff
April 03, 2013
Viscous crude from the Alberta oil sands of Canada continues to flow along the streets and down the driveways of residents in Mayflower, Arkansas, as ExxonMobile struggles to conta...

Veteran NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen Leaves Government to Fight Climate Change and Keystone XL

ICTMN Staff
April 03, 2013
The Keystone XL pipeline is in James Hansen’s sights as the famed climate scientist retires from NASA, where he has worked for more than 40 years, in order to spread the message ab...

'The Tar Sands Disaster': Canadians Against Keystone XL, in The New York Times

ICTMN Staff
April 01, 2013
"If President Obama blocks the Keystone XL pipeline once and for all, he’ll do Canada a favor," writes Thomas Homer-Dixon, an international affairs instructor at the Balsillie Scho...

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