The Chinantec people, inhabitants of the Cajonos River basin in the north of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, are carrying out an organizational process throughout their entire territory, the Chinantla, against economic projects that seek to commodify nature as a whole.
This is added to a list of aggressions against the community defending Cacahuatepec from construction of the “La Parota” dam mega-project.
from The Guardian The international funders behind the hydroelectric dam opposed by murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres are withdrawing from the project, the Guardian can reveal. Three financial institutions had pledged loans worth $44m for the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque river, which is considered sacred by the Lenca people and which Caceres campaigned […]
Protests against the Muskrat Falls megaproject intensified in October. The month saw a hunger strike, marches, a blockade and an occupation of the work camp inside the Muskrat Falls site.
72-year-old Sebastian Alonso from Yulchen was fatally wounded by gunshots.
After eight years of struggle, communities in Santa Cruz Barillas, Guatemala, are celebrating a decision by Spanish company Ecoener-Hidralia to leave Guatemala and start the “process of extinction of Hidro Santa Cruz S.A”.
After decades of industrial pollution, the Mohawk nation has succeeded in knocking down the Hogansburg Dam in New York.
With the objective of strengthening their power from the lands that are threatened by the criminal corporations of the Mining, Hydroelectric, Salmon, Forest, Oil, Agro-exporting, and other depredatory industries.
Protesters are letting workers at the controversial Muskrat Falls project leave the site Thursday, but are not letting them enter.
After forcing open and breaking the doors, they entered the machine room and sabotaged the cables and lighting fixtures. Before leaving, they installed two bombs inside.