Mrs. Nixon, please help us stop the tar sands
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling…
Big Oil’s Green Scare Tactics Hit a New Low
It’s pretty rare that I read a Green Scare smear piece that turns my stomach these days. But this one just took the cake. The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs…
Cascadia Rising:Road Blockade Stops Logging In Oregon Forest
This week, a group of Cascadia Earth First!ers and Rising Tide members took action against the continued liquidation and destruction of Oregon’s Elliot State Forest. Using sky pods, bipods, road…
Latest dozen Protect-an-Acre grants
Our latest series of a dozen Protect-an-Acre grants over the last few months supported frontline community efforts to defend their land in forests from the Amazon and Cerrado in South…
Will Hillary Clinton Let the World’s Dirtiest Oil Sneak Into the U.S.?
It’s no secret that the Canadian Tar Sands are one of the dirtiest projects in human history – all you have to do is look at it from space. But…
Peru blockades called off but controversy remains
Here is the latest on the Peru conflict. As of Friday, June 19th, the BBC reported that due to the repeal of the two most controversial presidential decrees, the blockades…
Video: Mountain Action team shuts down and climbs 20 story dragline
Here’s a video of yesterday’s action in Twilight, WV that shut down a 20 story dragline. Watch the video here [youtube wH6vYtQGLws&eur] 14 were arrested after entering onto a mine…
RAN Disrupts Canadian Business Conference in DC, Says “No Tar Sands”
Today, RAN took the fight against dirty Tar Sands oil to Washington. At the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC today, the Canadian-American Business Council held a high-profile forum on energy…
End the Killing In Peru!
On Tuesday, RAN activists joined about 40 other people from Amazon Watch, the Earth First! Roadshow, and Rising Tide North America in a protest at the Peruvian consulate in San…
Obama Administration’s Disappointing Position on MTR
First thing this morning I joined journalists and other environmentalists on phone call/press conference. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (DOI) and Army Corps of Engineers announced…