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The Devastating Legacy of Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction
Posted by EcoWatch: Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance on June 5th, 2013
EcoWatch: Watch this powerful video from Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, Our Back is Against the Wall, featuring Ponca elders Carter Camp and Casey Camp-Horinek describing the devastating legacy of oil exploitation in their communities in present day Oklahoma. Expanding tar sands mining in Alberta, Canada, through the Keystone XL is the latest threat to indigenous sovereignty and traditional homelands.
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Lifelong Oklahoman Youth Pastor Locked to Machinery in Protest of Keystone XL
Posted by EcoWatch: Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance on February 11th, 2013
EcoWatch: Earlier this morning, Stefan Warner, a youth pastor who was born and raised in Harrah, OK, locked himself to machinery being used to build the toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through Creek land near Schoolton, OK.
Warner is taking action to protect the health of the North Canadian River, communities and land that this pipeline would run through from being irreversibly damaged by diluted bitumen (tar sands) leaks and spills. He is sending a clear message that the current day colonialism and...