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Russia charges non-violent activists with 'piracy' for protesting Arctic oil drilling
2013-10-07 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In what is being described by Greenpeace as an 'imaginary offense,' Russia has charged 30 people with piracy after activists protested against oil exploitation in the Arctic. The 30 charged included not only protestors, but a British journalist and Russian videographer who were on board Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, when it was stormed by the Russian military late last month. On Wednesday, September 18th, two of activists were arrested attempting to scale Russia first Arctic oil platform,...
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Thousands Draw the Line Protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline
2013-09-23 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Thousands of people in hundreds of places across the U.S. joined together on Saturday in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline and dirty tar sands oil. Organized by 350.org, the nationwide action, Draw the Line, sent a strong message to President Obama that Americans want him to reject the Keystone XL. According to 350.org, 350 Seattle had more than a thousand people draw the line between the Puget Sound and the train tracks that could lead to exporting an inflated fossil fuel dependency. In Texas,...
13 Arrested Protesting Keystone XL at TransCanadas Houston Headquarters
2013-09-18 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: Thirteen activists were arrested while staging a peaceful sit-in at the Houston TransCanada Headquarters in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. Dozens of Texans rallied nearby in support of the activists who risked arrest at Monday`s protest. Activists rallied across the street in Market Square Park with signs before marching to the TransCanada office and staging a sit-in in protest of the foreign oil company`s efforts to build a giant pipeline through American soil so it can export the tar...
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208 Arrested Protesting Climate Chaos and Big Oil at Chevron Refinery
2013-08-05 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Two thousand eight hundred high-spirited and sunflower-carrying demonstrators--numbers estimated by the Richmond Police Department (RPD)--converged in front of the main gate to Chevrons refinery in Richmond Saturday to demand that the oil giant address ongoing health and safety concerns, stop processing extreme crude like tar sands, and cease its political and taxation manipulations. The sweeping, colorful protest commemorated the explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery last year on August...
Grandparents Arrested Protesting Keystone XL
2013-07-26 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth First! Newswire: Fifty-four people blocked work inside Environmental Resource Management (ERM), the oil contractor in charge of writing the environmental review for the Keystone XL pipeline. The massive corporation hid their ties to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil and even TransCanada--an illegal act that exposes deep conflict of interest. So today, activists for Walk for Grandkids locked down in front of the ERM offices, refusing to let business as usual proceed. We have reports of some police violence,...
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