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IENnews
Summer 2013 News ReCap
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Tar Sands: Pipelines and Refining
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Under Siege by Tar Sands,
Gulf Coast "Draws The Line"
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 by Cherri Foytlin
The first time I saw a picture pertaining to tar sands
extraction, was on Marty Cobenais' computer. We were both
attending an event in Houston, Texas, and found some time to talk
shop. By this time I knew well of the struggle to stop the
Keystone XL - the proposed 2,174 mile long pipeline that would
carry toxic bitumen (tar sand oil) from Canada to the Gulf
Coast. In fact, just a few months prior I had been one of the
1,252 people arrested in front of the White House in protest of
the project which then NASA scientist James Hansen has called
"the dirty needle" and "game over" for the planet (Marty had
been arrested too, buton different day than I). Read more.
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Regaining Food Sovereignty:
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Neyaab Nimamoomin Mewinzha
Gaa-inajigeyang
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 Regaining
Food Sovereignty explores the state of food systems in some
Northern Minnesota Native communities; examining the
relationship between history, health, tradition, culture and
food. By reclaiming and revitalizing knowledge and practices
around tradition, local and healthy foods, many communities and
Tribal Nations are working toward a new model of community
health and well-being for this and future generations. A
co-production of Lakeland Public Television & The
Indigenous Environmental Network. Click to watch our
video here.
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Direct Action to Stop
Illegal Enbridge Pipeline
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 Nizhawendaamin
Inaakiminaan (We Love Our Land) is a group of Red Lake Band of
Chippewa Indians, joined by blockaders and solidarity
activists. The encampment is located in Northern Minnesota near
the town of Leonard. Tom Poorbear, vice president of the
Ogalala Sioux Nation declared, "We fully support the Red Lake
Nation and its members who are opposing the Enbridge pipeline
to stop the flow and remove the illegal pipeline from their
land." The occupation of the Red Lake Ceded Land began
Thursday, February 28. Similar action camps around the United
States have been fighting the fossil fuel industry to stop the
destruction of sacred lands. Red Lake tribal members demand the
immediate shutdown of the flow through the pipes and intend to
remain on the land until their demand is met. Click to read more
and watch the video here.
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Welcome Jenna Grey Eagle:
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 Jenna Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota) Coordinator of
Transportation and Housing for Power Shift 2013 of Energy
Action Coalition.
Exposing the quiet genocide happening to my loved ones.
Recruiting Pine Ridge youth a presence to Power Shift for the
first time to empower each other on this journey of finding
sustainable solutions and powerful voice for Pine Ridge in this
movement.
There were only 7 fellows from across the
country accepted to help out with Power Shift and she's
currently living in Washington DC working on that fellowship on
behalf of IEN.
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Pipelines: Alberta Clipper
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Minnesota PUC to review
Enbridge oil pipeline expansion
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 Enbridge
Energy's plan to boost the carrying capacity of a crude oil
pipeline through Minnesota will go to a contested-case review,
a hearing similar to a trial. A major expansion of a pipeline
that carries Canadian heavy crude oil across Minnesota will get
a closer look by state regulators.As more than 40 anti-pipeline
activists sat quietly in the audience, the Minnesota Public
Utilities Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to authorize a
contested- case review - similar to a trial - of the need to
expand the carrying capacity of the 1,000-mile "Alberta
Clipper" pipeline. Read more.
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Tar Sands: Pipelines, MegaLoads, Keystone XL
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Native Americans Take Lead
in Tar Sands Resistance
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American tribes in the United States have taken the lead in
opposing the expansion of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta,
Canada, engaging in civil disobedience to the point of arrest
and attempting to physically block shipments of construction
equipment from passing through their native lands. Native
opposition is based on concern over the environmental
destruction associated with the expansion and with the related
Keystone XL Pipeline. The pipeline would convey oil from the
tar sands through Canada and the United States to southeastern
Texas. Read more.
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Pipelines: Enbridge Expansion
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 Once upon a
time there was an old evil corporation named Enbridge that
wanted to transport different types of oils: sweet,
medium, sour, and dil-bit, all across the US to export
ports. However, they proclaimed it was for the local
people to use and enjoy. Enbridge's pipedream was
fractured, they tended to only tell segments of their tales to
the people that owned the land they were trying to put their
pipeline on or near. Enbridge in proposing to construct a
pipeline, estimated to be 610 miles from Beaver Lodge Station,
just south of Tioga, ND, to Superior Wisconsin. Read more.
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Fracking is Draining Local
Communities
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 Brenda and
Richard Jorgenson have farmed in the White Earth Valley of
North Dakota for more than 30 years. They built a home in the
valley's sloping hillsides and planted crops around its native
prairie grasses. They have weathered the rugged conditions of
the Northern Plains because they love working the land, but now
their way of life is threatened by a powerful new force: the
Bakken oil boom. Click here to read
more.
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Congratulations Kandi
Mossett!
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 Here is the newest and the cutest member of the
IEN family - Aiyana Lee White, daughter of Kandi Mossett,
Native Energy & Climate Campaign Organizer, and Loren
White, Jr.
Congratulations are also in order for Kandi, as she was
nominated and accepted to serve as a member of the National
Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) - she will serve
a 3-year term effective Sept. 1, 2013.
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United Nations: Economic Development Agenda
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Intervention by Indigenous
Environmental Network, Tom Goldtooth
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 This
intervention is not on behalf of the North American Caucus, but
on behalf of the Indigenous Environmental Network.It is very
important that the outcome document articulate the expression
of Indigenous worldview that we all share, as Peoples of the
Land, Waters, Oceans and noting our relatives of the Polar
region - I will add the "Peoples' of the Ice and Snow". The
full recognition of our spirituality and cosmovision, as part
of our culture, has consistently been under attack by States
and their colonial bodies and within the implementation of
their economic globalization and so-called sustainable
development agenda. Read more.
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Eight Hottest Environmental
Battlegrounds in Indian Country
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Corporate interests have
been gobbling up indigenous land and rights since contact more
than 500 years ago. Today, American Indians are still fighting
to maintain their stewardship and the integrity of the land.
From the uranium invasion of the Grand Canyon, to the trashing
of sacred places in the name of renewable energy, here are some
of the most environmentally embattled hot spots in Indian
country. Read more.
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Carbon Trading - Carbon Offsets - REDD+
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Carbon Crooks: A new
documentary about carbon trading
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 By Chris
Lang, 4th September 2013
A new documentary, "Carbon Crooks", will be broadcast on 9
September 2013 in Denmark. The film is directed by Tom
Heinemann and documents the failure of carbon trading to
address climate change and investigates some of the fraud in
the carbon markets. A trailer of the film has been released [watch here],
and it looks great. The first interview in the trailer is with
Daniel Butler, who was a carbon trader between 2004 and 2011.
He broke the story about the stealing of €10 million worth of
European Union emissions allowances (EUAs) from the Czech
Republic's carbon registry in January 2011. "In the early days
it was a good business. I could make roughly €50,000 in five
minutes," Butler says. Read more.
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