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					<title>Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/cambodia-defies-un-call-to-free-arbitrarily-jailed-environmental-activists/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Aug 2026 10:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gerald Flynn]]>
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						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate Justice, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corruption, Crime, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Governance, Law, Natural Resources, NGOs, Nonviolence, Protests, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Cambodian government has defended its continued imprisonment of five environmental activists, after the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared the five had been arbitrarily detained and called for their immediate release. The activists, from environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia, have since 2024 been serving prison sentences of between [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Cambodian government has defended its continued imprisonment of five environmental activists, after the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared the five had been arbitrarily detained and called for their immediate release. The activists, from environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia, have since 2024 been serving prison sentences of between six and eight years for allegedly plotting against the government. In a 16-page opinion published in February, the U.N. working group said it had found that the imprisonment of Long Kuntha, 28, Ly Chandaravuth, 26, Phuon Keoraksmey, 25, Thun Ratha, 34 and Yim Leanghy, 37, met the conditions for arbitrary detention on the grounds that there was no legal basis for the arrests. It said authorities had targeted the activists for exercising their fundamental freedoms, making the detention discriminatory and resulting in severe violations of their right to a fair trial. The opinion asked Cambodia to take immediate action on the matter in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the latter of which Cambodia ratified in 1992, and to provide evidence of having done so within six months. Contacted by Mongabay in August, six months since the working group’s findings, a government spokesperson said the activists would remain behind bars. “I have no comment on [the working group’s] rulings against us as all detentions have been made under legal and judicial proceeding,” Chan Rothona, spokesperson for Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/cambodia-defies-un-call-to-free-arbitrarily-jailed-environmental-activists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>José Albino Cañas Ramírez, a defender of Indigenous territories, aged 44</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/jose-albino-canas-ramirez-a-defender-of-indigenous-territories-44/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Feb 2026 21:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[José Albino Cañas Ramírez did not die in a war zone, though war had shaped the landscape where he lived. He was shot at his home in the community of Portachuelo, in Colombia’s Caldas department, on the evening of February 16. Two men came to the shop he ran from his house, opened fire, and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[José Albino Cañas Ramírez did not die in a war zone, though war had shaped the landscape where he lived. He was shot at his home in the community of Portachuelo, in Colombia’s Caldas department, on the evening of February 16. Two men came to the shop he ran from his house, opened fire, and fled along the footpaths that lace the Indigenous reserve. He was 44. His killing was treated not merely as a private tragedy, but as a public matter of governance. Cañas Ramírez was a cabildante—a member of the governing council—of the Resguardo of Colonial Origin Cañamomo Lomaprieta, an Emberá Chamí territory of more than 23,000 people spread across dozens of communities. His death, leaders said, struck at the very structure of Indigenous self-government. The community of Portachuelo, where Cañas Ramírez lived, lies at the base of a sacred hill called Carbunco. Photo by Héctor Jaime Vinasco, member of the Governing Council of the Cañamomo Lomaprieta Indigenous Reserve of Colonial Origin. The Emberá Chamí, whose name means “people of the mountains,” inhabit the central and western Andes. Their lands are biodiverse, steep, and contested. For decades, they have lived at the intersection of armed conflict and extractive ambition. Guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, criminal networks, miners, and state interests have all sought to control territory that the Emberá consider ancestral. The result has been what activists call a form of “double victimization”: pressure from illegal armed actors on one side, and development projects and resource exploitation on the other.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/jose-albino-canas-ramirez-a-defender-of-indigenous-territories-44/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In a Himalayan Eden, a road project promises opportunity, but also loss</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/in-a-himalayan-eden-a-road-project-promises-opportunity-but-also-loss/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 May 2024 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Stuart Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Himalayas, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Development, Environment, Governance, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Mountains, Nonviolence, Religions, Roads, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[TSUM VALLEY, Nepal — “In the future, when war, strife and difficult times come,” said Thrisong Deutsen, an eighth-century Tibetan king, “will there be a safe place where people can go to practice Buddhism?” His guest, Padmasambhava, otherwise known as Guru Rinpoche, quickly calmed the king’s worries with his response: “Yes, there will be valleys [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[TSUM VALLEY, Nepal — “In the future, when war, strife and difficult times come,” said Thrisong Deutsen, an eighth-century Tibetan king, “will there be a safe place where people can go to practice Buddhism?” His guest, Padmasambhava, otherwise known as Guru Rinpoche, quickly calmed the king’s worries with his response: “Yes, there will be valleys where warfare will never happen and where people will live in peace with animals.” Nearly 1,300 years later, Karma, a monk, stands in the colorful monastery of Phurbe staring out the window into the sacred Tsum Valley of legend below. Surrounded by hand-painted murals of Padmasambhava, the Buddha and other Buddhist deities, the 82-year-old is troubled. “The road will change everything here,” says Karma, who has lived all his life in the sacred valley of Tsum, which today lies in central Nepal. “It’s all about money. There are a few good points, but it will really destroy everything. Even this monastery might be destroyed.” For believers, Padmasambhava, a real historical figure, is one of the most important of all Tibetan Buddhist saints. Founder of the oldest sect of Tibetan Buddhism, he’s chronicled as having spread Buddhism through much of the Himalayas and the world’s highest peaks. A man of great spiritual powers, he was also said to have been frequently embroiled in magical duels with demons to restore harmony on Earth. Invariably, Padmasambhava won such contests, but despite his successes, he was said to believe that one day a dark period would come to this&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/in-a-himalayan-eden-a-road-project-promises-opportunity-but-also-loss/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/life-as-an-amazon-activist-i-dont-want-to-be-the-next-dorothy-stang/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jul 2020 16:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Dams, Endangered Environmentalists, Energy, Environment, Ethnocide, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Infrastructure, Land Grabbing, Land Use Change, Nonviolence, Protests, Public Health, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Juma Xipaya, a young indigenous woman, medical student and fierce activist, fought the Belo Monte dam and exposed corruption; now she lives in daily terror of two thugs in a white pickup. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Pimental dam, part of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project which met with intense international and indigenous resistance. Image courtesy of Palácio do Planalto on Visual hunt / CC BY. In November 2019, a large group of angry Brazilian landowners and farmers, some of them armed, disrupted the “Amazon: Center of the World” international conference in Altamira, Brazil. The moment tilted precariously toward violence when a young indigenous woman stood up, took the microphone and made a passionate plea for all to safeguard the Amazon. “Her name — to remember and protect — is Juma Xipaya,” wrote journalist Eliane Brum of that day. “It was very tense,” recalls Xipaya, a 28-year old medical student as she speaks to Mongabay outside her school, the Federal University of Pará in Altamira. “When I was about to speak, one man came very close and shouted that we all deserve to die. And after the conference there was a big guy outside, screaming that ‘Indians do not exist!’ The police were there, but didn’t do anything.” Event organizers, deciding on the side of safety, arranged a hotel room that night for Xipaya, and she stayed with friends for the next week instead of going home. That’s nothing new. Xipaya is no stranger to danger. As a young activist and cacica (an indigenous spokesperson and leader), she came out fiercely against the $11 billion Belo Monte mega-dam and the massive corruption that financed its construction. She has since received numerous threats and survived one nearly&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/life-as-an-amazon-activist-i-dont-want-to-be-the-next-dorothy-stang/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-232404</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Endangered environmentalists: investigating government crackdowns on green groups</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/endangered-environmentalists-investigating-government-crackdowns-on-green-groups/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/endangered-environmentalists-investigating-government-crackdowns-on-green-groups/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Nov 2014 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, Canada, and India]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Environment, Governance, Green, Journalism, Law, Law Enforcement, Mongabay.org, Nonviolence, and Protests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org offers journalists opportunity to report on government muzzling of environmental activists Mongabay.org recently announced a new Special Reporting Opportunity for journalists to focus on governmental shutdown of environmental groups and NGOs. As climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction worsen across the globe, environmental groups are responding by ratcheting up the pressure on governments and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org offers journalists opportunity to report on government muzzling of environmental activists Mongabay.org recently announced a new Special Reporting Opportunity for journalists to focus on governmental shutdown of environmental groups and NGOs. As climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction worsen across the globe, environmental groups are responding by ratcheting up the pressure on governments and corporations to act. Groups worldwide are now employing such tactics as social media campaigns, boycotts, protests, and direct non-violent action. Many governments have responded by increasing restrictions on environmental NGOs, including revoking charity status, increasing sentences for protestors, and passing legislation restricting NGO activity. For example, Ecuador has shut down a high-profile indigenous rights group, India’s new administration has attempted to cripple Greenpeace, and Peru recently passed a law allowing police exemptions for causing bodily harm or even death, spurred on by the killings of dozens of activists at the hands of police and security forces. Even wealthy countries once viewed as leaders of environmental protection, such as Australia and Canada, are enacting laws to make environmental protests more difficult. Amid expanding populations and dwindling resources, it&#8217;s likely the battle between governments and activists will only intensify. Mongabay.org is opening a call for journalists to ask: why and where are governments muzzling environmental activists and groups and how will the environment movement respond? Journalists are encouraged to apply to report on this story for Mongabay, or reimbursement for up to $3,000 in travel expenses for related reporting for third party outlets, or both. The deadline&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/endangered-environmentalists-investigating-government-crackdowns-on-green-groups/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24439</doi>				</item>
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					<title>31 activists arrested attempting to stop Arctic oil from docking in Europe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/31-activists-arrested-attempting-to-stop-arctic-oil-from-docking-in-europe/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2014 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Asia, Europe, Greenland, Netherlands, and Russia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Green, Nonviolence, and Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dutch police arrested 31 Greenpeace activists today, who were attempting to block the Russian oil tanker, Mikhail Ulyanov, from delivering the first shipment of offshore Arctic oil to the European market. Greenpeace opposes drilling in the Arctic due to the difficulty of cleaning up any oil spill in remote, ice-filled waters, and the exacerbation of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dutch police arrested 31 Greenpeace activists today, who were attempting to block the Russian oil tanker, Mikhail Ulyanov, from delivering the first shipment of offshore Arctic oil to the European market. Greenpeace opposes drilling in the Arctic due to the difficulty of cleaning up any oil spill in remote, ice-filled waters, and the exacerbation of global climate change from exploiting new fossil fuel sources. Among those arrested was the captain of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, who last year spent months in a Russian prison along with 27 other activists and two journalists for protesting the country&#8217;s Arctic oil drilling scheme. Seven other activists from the so-called &#8220;Arctic 30&#8221; also took part in today&#8217;s action. At the Rotterdam Port, activists painted &#8220;No Arctic Oil&#8221; on the Russian oil tanker&#8217;s side, while others in inflatable boats blocked the tanker from initially offloading the oil. The oil comes from the Prirazlomanaya platform in the Pechora sea off the northern coast of Siberia. The platform is run by Russia&#8217;s state-owned company, Gazprom, and is the first in the world to drill into the Arctic sea bed for oil. Greenpeace blocking the Mikhail Ulyanov from docking. Photo by: Reuben Neugbauer. The captain piloting the Mikhail Ulyanov, Stanislav Chichin, told Associated Press that Greenpeace had put the ship&#8217;s safety in jeopardy. &#8220;Maneuvering in the confined waters of a port is no less dangerous than sailing in the Arctic, especially when another vessel is trying to interfere with a tanker transporting 67,000 tonnes of crude&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/31-activists-arrested-attempting-to-stop-arctic-oil-from-docking-in-europe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25305</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Russia charges imprisoned Greenpeace protestors with hooliganism, instead of piracy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/russia-charges-imprisoned-greenpeace-protestors-with-hooliganism-instead-of-piracy/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Oct 2013 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shaun Walker]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Greenland, and Russia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Law, Nonviolence, Oil, Politics, and Protests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Russian investigators announced on Wednesday they are dropping piracy charges against 28 environmental activists and two freelance journalists who have spent a month in custody since they were seized aboard Greenpeace&#8217;s boat, the Arctic Sunrise. All 30 will still be charged with hooliganism as part of an organized group, which carries a potential jail sentence [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Russian investigators announced on Wednesday they are dropping piracy charges against 28 environmental activists and two freelance journalists who have spent a month in custody since they were seized aboard Greenpeace&#8217;s boat, the Arctic Sunrise. All 30 will still be charged with hooliganism as part of an organized group, which carries a potential jail sentence of up to seven years, as opposed to 15 years for piracy. Some of them may also face other tougher charges of endangering the lives of Russian officials. &#8220;The Arctic 30 are no more hooligans than they were pirates,&#8221; said Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia. &#8220;This is still a wildly disproportionate charge that carries up to seven years in jail. It represents nothing less than an assault on the very principle of peaceful protest.&#8221; The 30 have been in prison since Russian coastguards stormed the Arctic Sunrise in mid-September as Greenpeace activists protested against the Prirazlomnaya oil rig, an offshore platform in the Pechora Sea operated by Russia&#8217;s energy giant Gazprom. The ship was towed back to the Arctic port of Murmansk, where the activists have been held in pre-trial detention centers ever since. In the past fortnight, judges have systematically rejected bail requests for the activists. There are six Britons among the detainees, including 27-year-old Alexandra Harris, who wrote to her parents that she felt like she was &#8220;slowly dying&#8221; in her cell, in an emotional letter seen by the Guardian. Cliff Harris, Alexandra&#8217;s father, said yesterday: &#8220;My initial reaction is a bit of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/russia-charges-imprisoned-greenpeace-protestors-with-hooliganism-instead-of-piracy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>13 arrested for blockading coal train, including Nobel Prize winning economist</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/13-arrested-for-blockading-coal-train-including-nobel-prize-winning-economist/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 May 2012 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[In British Colombia a group of concerned residents, along with scientists, blocked four trains of Wyoming coal bound for Asia. Thirteen were arrested. Photo courtesy of: 350.org. Thirteen Canadians were peacefully arrested this weekend for blockading Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railway tracks in order to prevent the passage of coal from the United States [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In British Colombia a group of concerned residents, along with scientists, blocked four trains of Wyoming coal bound for Asia. Thirteen were arrested. Photo courtesy of: 350.org. Thirteen Canadians were peacefully arrested this weekend for blockading Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railway tracks in order to prevent the passage of coal from the United States and destined to be burned in Asia. Among those arrested was Mark Jaccard, an economics professor with Simon Fraser University, who won the Nobel Prize for his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The act of civil disobedience was a protest against the on-going burning of coal for energy, since coal is the world&#8217;s most carbon-intensive fuel and thereby a major driver of climate change. &#8220;The window of opportunity for avoiding a high risk of runaway, irreversible climate change is closing quickly. Within this decade we will either have steered away from disaster, or have locked ourselves onto a dangerous course,&#8221; Jaccard wrote in a statement prior to his arrest. &#8220;Our governments continue to ignore the warnings of scientists and push forward with policies that will accelerate the burning of fossil fuels. Private interests&#8212;coal, rail, oil, pipeline companies and the rest&#8212;continue to push their profit driven agenda, heedless of the impact on the rest of us. This has to stop.&#8221; Last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that governments needed to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions in five years, or the world will likely see warming beyond 2 degrees Celsius, a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/13-arrested-for-blockading-coal-train-including-nobel-prize-winning-economist/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30954</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate test for Obama: 1,252 people arrested over notorious oil pipeline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/climate-test-for-obama-1252-people-arrested-over-notorious-oil-pipeline/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Sep 2011 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Environmental Policy, Fossil Fuels, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nonviolence, Oil, Oil Sands, Oil Spills, Politics, Pollution, Protests, Tar Sands, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[James Hansen (on the left) with religious leaders at Keystone XL civil disobedience. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Two weeks of climate disobedience at the White House ended over the weekend with 1,252 people arrested in total. Activists were protesting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in an effort to pressure US President Barack Obama [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[James Hansen (on the left) with religious leaders at Keystone XL civil disobedience. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Two weeks of climate disobedience at the White House ended over the weekend with 1,252 people arrested in total. Activists were protesting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in an effort to pressure US President Barack Obama to turn down the project. If built the pipeline would bring oil from Alberta&#8217;s tar sands through six US states down to Texas refineries. While protestors fear pollution from potential spills, especially in the Ogallala Aquifer which supplies water to millions, the major fight behind the pipeline is climate change: Canada&#8217;s tar sands emit significantly more carbon than conventional sources of oil. Renowned NASA climatologist, James Hansen, raised awareness of the issue when he wrote that if the tar sands are exploited along with coal reserves &#8220;it is essentially game over&#8221; for the climate. Hansen was arrested on Day 10 of the protests. What was once a relatively obscure issue impacting 6 states has galvanized environmentalists across all 50 states. After years of disappointment on environmental issues it has become a litmus test of the Obama administration&#8217;s dedication to fight climate change as he promised to do in his 2008 campaign. A young man, arrested on August 20th at the start of the Tar Sands Action, exits the courthouse after having spent 2 nights in jail. Photo by: Milan Ilnyckyj/Tar Sands Action. &#8220;It’s not the easiest thing on earth for law-abiding folk to come risk&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/climate-test-for-obama-1252-people-arrested-over-notorious-oil-pipeline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32053</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Picture of the day: activists rally at White House against tar sands pipeline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/picture-of-the-day-activists-rally-at-white-house-against-tar-sands-pipeline/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Aug 2011 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Activists against the tar sands pipeline rally on Saturday in Washington, DC ahead of Hurricane Irene. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Click to enlarge. A two week long civil action is taking place in front of the White House in an attempt to convince the Obama Administration to turn down the Keystone Pipeline XL, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activists against the tar sands pipeline rally on Saturday in Washington, DC ahead of Hurricane Irene. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Click to enlarge. A two week long civil action is taking place in front of the White House in an attempt to convince the Obama Administration to turn down the Keystone Pipeline XL, which would bring oil from Alberta&#8217;s tar sands to the US market. Protestors are opposed to the pipeline for a number of reasons, including potential oil spills. However, the main reason is that the tar sands carry a bigger carbon burden than conventional oil, exacerbating the global climate crisis. Many environmentalists have come to see the tar sands pipeline as a test to the Obama Administration&#8217;s willingness to address climate change after years of disappointment. To date 381 people have been arrested in the protest. Activists are intentionally, but peacefully, trespassing as an act of civil disobedience. Those arrested to date have included influential environmental leader and head of 350.org, Bill McKibben. Climatologist James Hansen is expected to protest tomorrow and risk arrest. For more on the civil disobedience against Keystone pipeline. For information on the ongoing activism.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/picture-of-the-day-activists-rally-at-white-house-against-tar-sands-pipeline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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