David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe caught in the crosshairs of a $3.7 billion oil development, pledged Thursday to fight President Trump on the Dakota Access pipeline just two weeks after the Army Corps green-lighted the project’s completion. The Standing Rock Sioux’s fight against the pipeline began in 2014, when Energy Transfer Partners … [Read more...]
Let’s defeat the planet-killing trade deal
Right now, the tar sands, a toxic oil reserve almost the size of Saudi Arabia's but over 3 times as dangerous for climate change, sits landlocked in Northern Canada. People power has twice blocked new pipelines into this poison, but now we have a bigger challenge. A new trade deal, negotiated in secret with China, could allow China's companies to take over the tar sands and … [Read more...]
