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Massive Montana mine has tribes fighting over coal exports

2013-06-22 02:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: A huge new coal-mining project just approved by the federal government pits a Montana tribe against native communities in the Pacific Northwest. The Crow Nation in southern Montana overlaps the coal-rich Powder River Basin. The tribe is sitting on a deposit of up to 1.4 billion tons of coal - more than the United States produces in a year - and on Thursday, the federal government approved the lease of that coal to mining company Cloud Peak Energy. The company has begun preliminary work on a mine...

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[India] Success: Soliga tribe's forest rights upheld in court

2013-06-21 03:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Survival: A village belonging to the Soliga tribe in southern India has won an important court victory after its entire stock of honey its key source of livelihood was seized by local forestry officials in May. The community, with the support of local organizations, took the matter to court and won. A Soliga man told Survival, 'In my village, Hosapodu, we are very happy that we can continue with our work`. The confiscation of honey was in direct violation of the 2006 Indian Forest Rights Act, which...

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States, Tribes Feeling Their Way Through Traceability Rule

2013-03-27 16:51:00| Beef

By Heather Hamilton The National Animal Traceability Rule, which went into effect on March 11, is a trial-and-error learning process. As things move forward and more states implement their own rules for compliance with USDAs animal disease traceability rule, producers are encouraged to stay aware of their own states requirements. read more

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Tribes rejects payment from electricity company behind destructive Amazon dam

2013-03-14 06:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Leaders of more than two dozen Kayapó indigenous communities have rejected a $9 million offer from Brazilian state energy company Eletrobras to fund development projects in their region due to the the firm's involvement in the construction of the Belo Monte dam, reports Amazon Watch, an activist group fighting the hydroelectric project. Eletrobras had offered the money over a four year period, during which it is planning to proceed with the dam, which will redirect the flow of 80 percent of the...

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