EnvironmentMining & Drilling
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Environmental, Native groups challenge Shell Arctic air permit (2/22/2012)
(Alaska) -- Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air quality permit that was granted by the...
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Chief worried potash development may cause flooding (2/21/2012)
(Saskatchewan) -- A Saskatchewan First Nation in the Qu'Appelle Valley is raising concerns that future potash developments could cause flooding. Pasqua First Nation...
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Northern Wisconsin Chippewa tribes might use treaties to halt or slow proposed mine (2/19/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- Armed with its status as a sovereign nation and powerful treaties with the federal government, the Bad River Chippewa tribe has the legal muscle to do...
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Groups appeal renewal of Ariz. coal mining permit (2/19/2012)
(Arizona) -- A group of environmentalists is challenging the federal government's renewal of an operating permit for a northern Arizona coal mine.
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No Evidence That Fracking Contaminates Groundwater: Study (2/19/2012)
(Wyoming) -- It’s not fracking itself, but the sloppy practices surrounding it—or pre-existing issues that hadn’t been studied before fracking started...
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Chino Valley entrepreneur still fighting uranium-mining ban (2/18/2012)
(Arizona) -- Environmental groups, Native American tribes and citizens concerned about the preservation of Arizona's premier attraction roundly praised Interior...
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Mining settlement gives land to Elem Colony, pays millions for cleanup (2/18/2012)
(California) -- A new agreement between federal agencies, a local tribe and a mining company will see the tribe significantly increase its land holdings and millions...
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Shell wins approval of Arctic spill response plan (2/17/2012)
(Alaska) -- Shell Oil cleared one of the last remaining hurdles to Arctic offshore drilling Friday as the federal government said it has approved the company's spill...
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BLOG: Republican lawmakers try again — and fail again — to remove Grand Canyon-area uranium development ban (2/16/2012)
(Arizona) -- Federal lawmakers continued their cat and mouse energy game this week by fiddling with a transportation bill to try and repeal President Obama’s ban...
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Proposed Mine Troubles Tribal Neighbors (2/13/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- Controversy continues churning in Wisconsin over a potential mining operation in the far north. Advocates say the venture promises much-needed jobs;...
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Food report involving polluted Nevada mine angers tribe (2/13/2012)
(Reno) -- Test results the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cited repeatedly as evidence that irrigated crops and livestock next to a polluted Nevada mine are...
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12 Miles group, casinos weigh in on drilling (2/12/2012)
(Mississippi) -- The opposition to offshore drilling in Mississippi last week accused the Mississippi Development Authority of sandbagging public input on the issue...
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Casino concerns about offshore drilling (2/12/2012)
(Mississippi) -- Coast casinos say they’re not opposed to oil and gas drilling in Mississippi waters, but they still have concerns they want addressed to protect...
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Indigenous Leaders Call for Ecuador Government to Stop Oil Leasing Plans (2/12/2012)
(Ecuador) -- Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazonian lowlands are calling for the government to drop plans to auction 21 leases near the Peruvian border for...
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Ontario First Nation wins injunction to stop gold drilling (2/10/2012)
(Ontario) -- When members of Wahgoshig First Nation spotted a drilling crew on what they say is a sacred burial site, they demanded to know who the strangers were and...
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Senate version of mining bill could be out on Monday (2/10/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Mining Jobs said Friday that a mining bill, in its preliminary form, is nearly finished being written and...
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Rio Tinto, Republicans Face Indian Opposition to Copper Plan (2/9/2012)
(Arizona) -- Rio Tinto Group is getting support from two key Senate Republicans -- and Indian tribe opposition - - as it seeks congressional backing for a land swap that...
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Planners to rule on Jesse Morrow mining plan (2/8/2012)
(California) -- The Fresno County Planning Commission is scheduled to decide Thursday whether to allow mining on Jesse Morrow Mountain.
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Russians drill into previously untouched Lake Vostok below Antarctic glacier (2/6/2012)
(Antarctica) -- Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a source...
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Feds oppose strip mine near Utah's Bryce Canyon (2/5/2012)
(Utah) -- Federal biologists say a strip mine at the backdoor to Utah's storybook Bryce Canyon National Park will wipe out the southernmost population of sage grouse...
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Agencies urge Interior to reject mining near national park (2/3/2012)
(Utah) -- Two key federal agencies have recommended that the Interior Department reject a controversial coal lease proposed for an area near Bryce Canyon National Park,...
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Stop Gogebic Taconite's Wisconsin mining (2/1/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- The sound of drums added to the now familiar singing and chanting in Wisconsin's state Capital rotunda on January 25, a din that periodically grew...
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Blood Tribe members facing court over fracking protest (1/31/2012)
(Alberta) -- A judge has upheld criminal charges against three Blood Tribe members who took part in a protest against fracking. APTN National News reporter Noemi LoPinto...
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Salazar: Interior closing in on gas ‘fracking’ rules (1/30/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is getting closer to unveiling long-planned draft rules to impose new requirements on the natural gas drilling method...
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Rift Grows Between Tribes, Lawmakers (1/28/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- There was a clash of cultures in the State Assembly yesterday as Republican lawmakers passed a major rewrite to Wisconsin's mining laws.
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Wisconsin GOP Votes To Break Native American Treaties (1/28/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- The Wisconsin GOP is attempting to pass a bill called Assembly Bill 426. Assembly Bill 426 is a bill that was introduced without an author, a bill that to...
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Enbridge Pipeline
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Pipeline opposition says intervenors 'muzzled' at Enbridge hearings in Prince Rupert (2/20/2012)
(British Columbia) -- The Joint Review Panel hearings in Prince Rupert on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline are over, and many are feeling disillusioned...
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Enbridge offered B.C. first nations cash to study pipeline (2/14/2012)
(British Columbia) -- An aboriginal organization leading the fight to prevent oil tankers on the British Columbia coast once took money from Enbridge Inc., the company...
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Alta. MP wants law to block foreign funding of environmentalists (2/10/2012)
(Ottawa) -- A Conservative MP on Thursday called for federal legislation that would both block foreign funding of the “radical” Canadian environmental...
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Native Sun News: First Nations demand role in pipeline project (2/6/2012)
(British Columbia) -- Testimony in the tar-sands crude-oil capital of Edmonton, Alberta, Jan. 24-31, brought to light First Nations’ concerns about the Enbridge...
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Two thousand protest Enbridge oilsands pipeline in Prince Rupert (2/6/2012)
(British Columbia) -- The Prince Rupert police estimate that 2,000 people protested against the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline in Prince Rupert yesterday, in a rally...
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Snowbowl
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Options for saving the San Francisco Peaks dwindling (2/19/2012)
(Arizona) -- Groups trying to block a plan to make snow from treated wastewater atop the San Francisco Peaks are running out of legal options.
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Navajo Administration releases opinion on the Peaks (2/15/2012)
(Arizona) -- Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly and Vice President Rex Lee Jim jointly issued the following statement regarding the Save The Peaks Coalition v. United...
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The Snowbowl Scheme Seems Absurd; it Just Might Be Carcinogenically Serious (2/11/2012)
(Arizona) -- There is a famous bit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the King of Swamp Castle describes his struggle to build his large medieval edifice. The...
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Ninth Circuit Allows Recycled Sewage on Sacred San Francisco Peaks (2/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- A federal appeals court has given an Arizona ski resort operating on federal land permission to use recycled sewage to make artificial snow on Humphrey...
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Sacred Site Faces Legalized Desecration From Arizona Snowbowl Wastewater (2/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo call them Doko’oo’sliid, or “Shining On Top.” To the Hopi, the peaks are Nuvatukaovi, or “The Place of Snow on the...
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Ninth Circuit rules against Save the Peaks 2012 (2/9/2012)
(California) -- Save the Peaks Attorney Howard Shanker responds: "I believe that it is a sad day for the earth, the people, and our broken system of justice,"...
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Snowmaking opponents lose again today at 9th Circuit (2/9/2012)
(Arizona) -- Opponents of snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater at Arizona Snowbowl have lost again at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, this time on arguments that...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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BLOG: 'Marine guardian' backs Keystone XL pipeline, fracking (2/17/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- "Take the Keystone XL pipeline, for example," gushed Catherine Reheis-Boyd, a strange type of "marine guardian." "We...
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TransCanada: More oil, more cost (2/16/2012)
(Nebraska) -- The Keystone XL pipeline will carry more oil, be more expensive to build and won't completed until 2015, developer TransCanada Inc. indicated this week.
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Keystone XL Pipeline: Texas Farmer Wins Temporary Restraining Order Against TransCanada (2/14/2012)
(Texas) -- A coalition of environmentalists, conservative property rights activists and landowners are mounting a full court press against TransCanada in an attempt to...
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Native Wisdom Guides Movement to Close Keystone Pipeline Route (2/14/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s rally Feb. 11 against the Keystone XL Pipeline showed the extent to which the multi-billion-dollar tar-sands crude-oil...
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Alberta Oil Sands Up Close: Gunshot Sounds, Dead Birds, a Moonscape (2/2/2012)
(Alberta) -- If you can imagine the bleak landscape of the moon, you can envision the desolate, 54,000-square-mile tar sands of northern Alberta, a focus of controversy...
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ANWR
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House passes plan that would allow drilling in ANWR (2/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Republican-controlled House endorsed a plan Thursday to vastly expand oil and gas drilling off the nation's coasts, and to allow drilling in...
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Liberty Quarry
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Liberty Quarry strip mine near Temecula denied permits in 3-2 vote (2/16/2012)
(California) -- Riverside County supervisors today denied permits for a proposed 414-acre strip mine near Temecula that opponents argued would damage the environment and...
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Riverside County supervisors reject massive Temecula quarry (2/16/2012)
(California) -- The fastest-growing county in California rejected a massive, mountaintop rock quarry Thursday that supporters called an essential source of the...
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Experts support rock quarry plans near Temecula (2/15/2012)
(California) -- A mining company executive told the Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday that his firm has worked diligently to make a proposed rock quarry near...
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Temecula Creek Inn housing plan under review (2/9/2012)
(California) -- A consulting firm is studying the environmental implications of a plan to transform the 305-acre Temecula Creek Inn property into a resort community...
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Opponents hit project; next meeting set (2/6/2012)
(California) -- Liberty Quarry foes launched a sometimes emotional verbal assault on the proposed open-pit mine during an all-day hearing on Monday.
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Native Voices
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VIDEO: Dine' Louise Benally responds to Navajo Attorney General on Coal Fired Power Plants (2/13/2012)
(Arizona) -- Louise Benally, Dine' from Big Mountain, resisting relocation on Black Mesa, describes the destruction caused from Peabody Coal's coal mining on...
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Other News
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Southeast land deal threatens old-growth trees, Audubon says (2/22/2012)
(Alaska) -- More than 12,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest's oldest and largest trees are being targeted for logging under a bill that would place wide...
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Caribou recovery plan swamped by public feedback (2/22/2012)
(Canada) -- Environment Canada had to be dragged into court before it came up with a recovery strategy for Canada's endangered woodland caribou.
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Climate scientist admits duping skeptic group to obtain documents (2/21/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A prominent climate scientist and author acknowledged Sunday night that he had obtained internal documents from a climate skeptic group under a fake...
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Shakopee tribe's recycling center churns out tons of compost (2/21/2012)
(Minnesota) -- The garbage that flows through its gates is measured in tons. It consists of immense quantities of food scraps, lawn clippings, paper and cardboard.
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Tsuu T'ina landfill has no permit (2/21/2012)
(Calgary) -- The Tsuu T'ina construction debris landfill that burned and spewed smoke for two straight days this month has been operating for three years without a...
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Labrador Inuit community faces water crisis (2/21/2012)
(Labrador) -- A small Inuit community in Labrador has declared a state of emergency. The community of Hopedale on the eastern shores of Labrador is struggling to provide...
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Dam construction degraded river water quality, hurt food sources (2/20/2012)
(Washington) -- Native American cultures are traditionally subsistence-based, which means they eat what grows locally and is in season.
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Wildlife photographers turn their cameras toward conservation (2/20/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Steve Winter has followed snow leopards through the Himalayas, been trapped in quicksand in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in Burma, and...
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Fort Belknap Awaiting Bison, Funding Biggest Hurdle (2/20/2012)
(Montana) -- The Fish Wildlife and Parks Commission gave hunters the authority to kill bison when they stray from 'tolerance areas' outside of Yellowstone Park...
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Green gaming / Atlantis Casino Resort Spa turns garbage into 'green' gold (2/17/2012)
(Reno) -- It used to be just garbage, but now the food scraps that come out of the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa’s kitchen preparation areas are being diverted into...
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Manitoba's winter roads finally open linking 23 remote communities (2/17/2012)
(Manitoba) -- Large trucks will be able to reach dozens of remote northern communities now that Manitoba's winter road network has finally opened. The province says...
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Ottawa ‘muzzling’ scientists, panel tells global research community (2/17/2012)
(Ottawa) -- For almost three weeks after David Tarasick published findings about one of the largest ozone holes ever discovered above the Arctic, the federal scientist...
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Tribes use funds to restore westslope cutthroat trout (2/17/2012)
(Montana) -- On the west-facing foothills of the Mission Mountain Wilderness, about five miles east of Highway 93, lies a 40-acre parcel of land recently purchased by...
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Scientists find no radiation in Alaska's sick ringed seals (2/17/2012)
(Alaska) -- Lesions and other symptoms associated with sickened or dead ringed seals along Alaska's northern coast last year were probably not caused by radiation,...
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Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, Olympic National Park sued over hatchery fish on Elwha (2/16/2012)
(Washington) -- The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe and Olympic National Park are being taken to court over the use of hatchery fish to kick-start restoration of the Elwha...
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Tribes Dealt Setback in Missouri River Recovery Discussions (2/16/2012)
(Missouri) -- Tribal representatives attending the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee (MRRIC) meeting February 7-9 in Kansas City, expressed concern over...
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"Water is Life, Water is Sacred" forum addresses Navajo and Hopi Peabody issues (2/15/2012)
(Arizona) -- One of the few things that both Hopi and Navajo grassroots activists agree on is that Peabody Western Coal Company wants both Hopi and Navajo water and coal.
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Black Mesa calls on EPA to place Navajo Generating Station on sound environmental footing (2/15/2012)
(Arizona) -- Black Mesa Trust, an indigenous grassroots Hopi environmental, education and advocacy group serving the Native peoples of Black Mesa in northern Arizona,...
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Hopi Council holds special session on Peabody lease re-opener approval (2/15/2012)
(Arizona) -- On Jan. 13, Kykotsmovi Hopi Council Rep. Rebekkah Masayesva requested a special open public meeting for the Hopi Council to explain to the Hopi public why...
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Our legacy: ‘Will there be fish like we knew?’ (2/15/2012)
(California) -- Among Mike Orcutt's fondest memories: fishing with his father and, as an eighth-grader, pairing up with a buddy to fill the bed of a pickup truck...
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