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U.S., Canada aboriginal tribes type alliance to cease oil pipelines
2016-09-22 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Aboriginal tribes from Canada and the northern United States signed a treaty on Thursday to jointly fight proposals to build more pipelines to carry crude from Alberta`s oil sands, saying further development would damage the environment. The move came as Native American tribes on Thursday took their fight to Washington to stop development of the $ 3.7 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline, which would cross federally managed and private lands in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. Last...
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Aboriginal Groups Trying Halt a Natural Gas Boom in Australia's Northern Territory
2016-03-28 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Conservationists and indigenous communities in northern Australia are gearing up for a fight, as some of the world's largest energy companies line up to frack the region for shale gas. Santos, Sasol, Inpex and, more recently, businessmen who have made billions from fracking in the United States have all been lured to the McArthur Basin in Australia's Northern Territory. American Energy Partners (AEP), the company established by US fracking pioneer Aubrey McClendon who died two weeks ago has...
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Canada seeks traditional aboriginal knowledge on climate change
2016-03-12 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The indigenous peoples of northern Canada and other Arctic regions around the world have long argued they are the first to experience and suffer from the effects of global warming. They also possess a wealth of traditional ecological knowledge through oral histories, hunting and fishing patterns, and other observations that come from calling a place home for millennia that can document the effects of the changing climate and, perhaps, offer solutions on how to better protect it. Canada looks...
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Trudeau Meets With Aboriginal Leaders To Discuss Climate Change
2016-03-03 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down with aboriginal leaders Wednesday to discuss a role for First Nations in the fight against climate change. But Trudeau may be finding that the talks with First Nations aren't any easier than they are with the premiers. The prime minister was defending himself even before the talks began over the decision not to include the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, which represents non-status aboriginals, and the Native Women's Association of Canada. "The federal...
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Resources firms endorse call for aboriginal veto rights to projects
2015-09-21 03:56:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Native Leaders and environmentalists gather in front of the BC Legislature to protest the Enbridge, Northern Gateway Project on October 22, 2012. Native Leaders and environmentalists gather in front of the BC Legislature to protest the Enbridge, Northern Gateway Project on October 22, 2012.
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