Assembly of First Nations Kicks Off National Assembly

ICTMN Staff
July 11, 2011
First Nations from across Canada are gathering in Moncton, New Brunswick, this week, hosted by the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet Nations, as representatives from 633 First Nations gather to...

U.S. Court Lifts Injunction in Chevron Case

ICTMN Staff
September 21, 2011
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has lifted an injunction that froze payments from Chevron to Ecuadoreans collecting damages for pollution, the BBC reports ...

Osage Nation Objects to Wind Farms

ICTMN Staff
June 14, 2011
The Osage Nation is against the development of large-scale wind farms in Osage County, Oklahoma, due to projected economic losses to the tribe and likely damage to the Tallgrass Pr...
Crystal Willcuts

Drill Baby Drill

Do you know what it means to be un-American? I’ll tell you. To be un-American means to be respectful, humble, spiritual, truthful, caring, and selfless. To be American means to be immature, greedy, deceitful, disrespectful, arrogant and egocentric....

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June 20, 2011

Interior Department Grants Shell Permission to Do Preliminary Drilling in Chukchi Sea

ICTMN Staff
August 31, 2012
Environmentalists reacted strongly to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announcement on Thursday August 30 that Shell has been granted permission to do limi...
Mark Trahant

Family Math Doesn’t Work When it Costs $100 to Fill-up a Pickup Truck

A few weeks ago Bloomberg News reported that Saudi Arabia is investing $100 billion in renewable energy sources (...

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April 25, 2011

Grannies with Gumption: Standing up to Corporate Giants in Canada and Ecuador

ICTMN Staff
March 08, 2011
Maria Aguinda, Ecuadorean Quechua who spearheaded fight against Chevron. Chevron didn’t stand a chance before the ire of indigenous villager Maria Aguinda...

LaDuke: Cut Oil Dependency by Gardening

ICTMN Staff
March 03, 2011
“We are a severely oil-addicted country,” the author, activist and economist Winona LaDuke told the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Oregon on February 28, reported the...

Bayou Tribes Want Payback from BP

ICTMN Staff
February 17, 2011
Louisiana’s American Indian fishing tribes were already financially struggling from social change and coastal erosion, reported the Associated Press , when a BP well spewed an esti...

Chevron Claims its Toxic Waste Dump in Ecuador’s Amazon Did Not Harm Tribes

ICTMN Staff
February 13, 2011
Ecuador's oil-laden waters after the Chevron-Texaco waste dump (Photo courtesy of Rainforest Action Network/Flickr) Chevron dumped more than 16 billion gallons of oil and toxic was...

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