Land Rights

Pipeline Proposal Meets Opposition In Schuylkill County

February 18, 2015 Mark Gilger Jr., www.republicanherald.com Resist! Environment, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Jack Zerbe II was about 10 years old when the Sunoco pipeline was built through his family’s farm in Washington Township, but he remembers that it took 15 to 20 years for production on that land to return to where it was before construction. As three generations of Zerbes continue to oppose the proposed construction of The Williams Companies pipeline through their portion of the county, they received a letter Jan. 26 from another company looking to put another pipeline through their property. “We were like, ‘You have got to be kidding me,’ ” Leah Zerbe, Jack’s daughter, who also lives on the farm, said Thursday. The Williams Companies Inc., an energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has plans to expand its Transco pipeline to connect the natural gas fields in northern Pennsylvania to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern states by 2017.

81 Year Old Says She Will Fight Pipeline Through Her Farm

February 18, 2015 Duncan Adams, www.roanoke.com Resist! Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

An acquaintance told Louise Garman to accept the inevitable — that there’s little she can do to stop a buried natural gas pipeline from traveling through her family’s farm in the Catawba Valley if the powers that be ultimately decide that’s the anointed route. But Garman, 81, said she still has enough fight to object to an alternative route that could bring the 42-inch-diameter interstate pipeline through the property of family members, friends and neighbors. “People can’t be expected to just lie down,” Garman said Monday. Mountain Valley Pipeline confirmed earlier this month that it is considering alternatives to a previously disclosed route for the proposed pipeline but has declined to date to provide more specifics.

Hawaiian Activists Block Illegal Construction On Sacred Mountain

February 16, 2015 Christina Rose, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Resist! Hawaii, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

On Tuesday, October 7, at the base of Mauna Kea, the world's tallest mountain, close to 200 activists joined in prayer, to preserve Hawai’i’ s most sacred place. The groundbreaking ceremony came to a dead halt when Joshua Lanakila Mangauil, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, and other supporters made their way to the top of the mountain. Mangauil, who can be seen in the video below, stormed the ceremony unexpectedly and denounced the actions taking place. Mangauil’s impassioned pleas, among others, halted the events. Later, Mangauil said he wished it had gone differently. “It got to a boiling point that led to shutting the whole thing down. I hope we did the right thing, there were a lot of words,” he said.

Nebraska Judge Rules “No Eminent Domain For Keystone”

February 13, 2015 Chip Northrup, www.nofrackingway.us Educate! Keystone XL, Land Rights, Law, Nebraska

Nebraska judge issues temporary injunction, halts eminent domain against landowners while case proceeds back to NE Supreme Court. TransCanada agrees to halt all eminent domain cases in the state. Nebraska judge rules in favor of landowners on Keystone XL eminent domain. A Nebraska district court judge has temporarily halted the ability of a Canadian company to acquire right-of-way for the Keystone XL pipeline. Holt County District Judge Mark Kozisek granted a temporary injunction Thursday to landowners who challenged the ability of TransCanada to use eminent domain to acquire land for the controversial pipeline.

Taking From Indians Is An American Tradition

February 12, 2015 Tara Houska, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Educate! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

So just what is the state of Indian affairs today? Congress is again poised to significantly and negatively impact tribal lands via must-pass legislation. The Oceti Sakowin are unified against taking tribal lands that were never ceded to the United States, against a project that will bring increased violence, potential environmental destruction, and many other harms to their communities. Although the decision to attach Keystone XL to must-pass legislation likely won’t be made behind closed doors as it was with the Apache Land Grab, the end result will be the same: tribal people dispossessed of tribal lands to benefit extractive industries.

Over 2,500 Landless Families Occupy 6 Properties In Brazil

February 9, 2015 EFE, www.latino.foxnews.com Resist! Brazil, Housing, Land Rights, Poverty

More than 2,500 families are occupying six properties in Brazil's Federal District as part of a protest organized by the MTST Homeless Workers Movement, the organization said Sunday. The coordinated occupation was carried out peacefully in Brazlandia, Ceilandia, Planaltina, Recanto das Emas, Samambaia and Taguatinga, all of them cities in the Brasilia metropolitan area. The protesters plan to occupy the properties until an agreement is reached with the regional government, the MTST said. "We are going to stay here until there is an agreement with the government (of the Federal District). We spoke with them on Saturday and we set a new meeting for Tuesday," the MTST coordinator in Brasilia, Edson Silva, told Efe.

Can Energy Company Go On Private Land Without Permission?

February 7, 2015 Rachel Smith, www.newsadvance.com Resist! Corporatism, Land Rights, Law

The fate of a lawsuit filed by five Nelson County residents against Dominion Transmission remains unknown after a Thursday morning hearing in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg. The lawsuit, filed in September, asks the court to declare unconstitutional a Virginia statute relevant to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Section 56-49.01 of the Virginia Code allows natural gas companies to survey private property as long as previous notification has been served. Dominion asked the court in November to dismiss the suit, and that request is what Thursday's arguments focused on. On one side of the court room sat mostly Dominion representatives scattered in the pews, on the opposite side sat Nelson County residents who filled every inch of the section.

Apache Leader: Unite To Fight Proposed Copper Mine

February 2, 2015 Emily Bregel, www.redpowermedia.wordpress.com Resist! Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

Apache leader Wendsler Nosie issued a call for solidarity in the fight against Congress’ recent decision to give sacred Native American land to a foreign mining company. Speaking to a crowd of about 75 gathered Friday in South Tucson, Nosie invited people of of all races, religions and political affiliations to stand up against what he calls the “dirty” way in which legislators approved the land swap in December. He invited everyone to a spiritual gathering and protest at Oak Flat, about 100 miles north of Tucson, next Saturday. “This is not just our fight. This is an American battle,” said Nosie, former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. The reservation’s border is just east of the proposed copper mine at Oak Flat, sacred to Western Apache and Yavapai people.

CALLOUT To #ShutDownCanada Friday, February 13th

February 2, 2015 Mike Roy, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Women, Land Rights

CALL OUT for communities across Canada to blockade their local railway, port or highway on February 13th. Don’t buy, don’t fly, no work and keep the kids home from school. A diversity of tactics is highly recommended! Get everyone involved” (#ShutDownCanada). The ShutDownCanada callout was made by a group called In Solidarity with all Land Defenders who describe themselves as “a collective of indigenous and settler grassroots organizers/activists based out of so called Vancouver(xʷməθkwəy̓əm(Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) land)”.

Sapotaweyak Cree Nation Sets Up Blockade

January 27, 2015 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, First Nations, Land Rights, Law

Members of a western Manitoba aboriginal community are peacefully protesting work on the Bipole III hydroelectric line, a project that requires the construction of a transmission line, two new converter stations and two ground electrodes for those stations.Screen Shot 2015-01-26 at 6.16.34 PM That construction will involve clear-cutting trees near Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, located north of Swan River in central Manitoba. Chief Nelson Genaille says the project will destroy their livelihood and way of life. "They use the land as they did before. Living off the land with the animals. You know using the medicines from natural Mother Earth. And even the water systems. All of that habitat is going to be impacted."

Join The Movement To Protect Earth: This Is Why We Fight

January 21, 2015 Dallas Goldtooth, www.theguardian.com Strategize! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

The Oceti Sakowin, the traditional name for my Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples, are rising up to protect Mother Earth. We are mobilizing a resistance that could prove to be the game changer in the fight to stop the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and help shut down the tar sand projects in northern Alberta. Our resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline and other tar sand infrastructure is grounded in our inherent right to self-determination as indigenous peoples. As the original caretakers, we know what it will take to ensure these lands are available for generations to come. This pipeline will leak, it will contaminate the water. It will encourage greater tar sands development, which, in turn, will increase carbon emissions.

Blockade Planned For Port Metro Vancouver

January 21, 2015 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Land Rights

To answer the callout to #ShutDownCanada on Friday February 13th a collective of individuals have decided to to blockade Port Metro Vancouver. We will gather at 10:00 AM at the corner of Clark Dr. & E. Hastings to rally in support of individuals who choose to put their bodies on the line in the name of justice. We are calling on all supporters to join us and cheer them on while we together with communities across the nation#ShutDownCanada. We are inviting everyone to stand with us in solidarity on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) land. nə́c̓amət tə šxʷqʷeləwən ct. We are of one heart and mind.

Bold Nebraska Promises To Fight Trans Canada Eminent Domain

January 21, 2015 Mark Hefflinger, www.boldnebraska.org Resist! Energy, Land Rights, Nebraska, Oil & Gas

On the same day a Montana community is trucking in clean drinking water after a pipeline leak spilled tens of thousands of gallons of oil into their water supply, Canadian oil company TransCanada has served Nebraska families with eminent domain papers to take their land and put Nebraska’s water supply at risk of even worse tar sands spills with the construction of its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Eminent domain was never intended to be used for private gain, yet that is what Nebraska lawmakers are letting TransCanada do to landowners today. Nebraska’s eminent domain law sides with oil companies over the farmers and ranchers who are the backbone of our state’s economy.

Murder In The Rainforest

December 20, 2014 Alexander Zaitchik, www.rollingstone.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

This jungle violence isn't just a human tragedy or a local environmental story — it is global climate politics. The first days of the Lima summit — known as COP 20, for the twentieth session of the Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change — saw the publication of data that quantifies, for the first time, the exact size of the climate impact made by indigenous populations as front-line guardians of imperiled rainforests. The size of this impact, a kind of negative carbon footprint, is staggering. Nowhere is this more true than in the Amazon that begins just over the mountains from the just-concluded negotiations. Along with land titles and the freedom to be left alone, many indigenous activists want something more from the consumer society that feeds on its trees and minerals.

Farmworker Defeats US Mining Company

December 20, 2014 Telesur TV, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Land Rights, Law, Peru

Maxima Acuña, a farmworker from Cajamarca, has won a legal case against the U.S. based Newmont Mining Corporation. Newmont is known in Peru by the name of its operations in the area, Yanacocha. The company sued Maxima for alleged land invasion in an attempt to expel her and her family from her property. Yanacocha wanted her land in order to pursue their massive gold mining project, known as Conga. Nevertheless, the Appeals Court of Justice of Cajamarca ruled in favor of Maxima, thus absolving her from the lawsuit. Maxima built her home in 1994 on property she had purchased in front of the Blue Lagoon of Celendin. In 2011, Yanacocha attempted to buy the land, but Maxima did not give in. The company is interested in her land because it is strategically located in front of the lake. The lake’s water is necessary for the mining operations.

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