Professional protesters looking to polish up their skill sets may look to travel to Canada later this month to attend an eco-terrorism training camp. The two-day “Tactical Preparation Course” will teach you “skill sets founded on stealthy movement through the woods to get to an industrial resource extraction site undetected to conduct an activist action,”…
A radical environmental organization wants to teach you how to become an eco-terrorist. Earth First! – a group that has endorsed violence as a means of stopping energy infrastructure development – is now selling copies of a third edition of its Direct Action Manuel or DAM, according to a new report from InsideSources: They call…
An activist claiming to have driven over 10,000 miles in order to protest pipelines is now asking hardworking Americans to chip in for gas so he can drive another 2,300 miles. “I’ve got almost 2,300 miles to go to get back to the reasons I enlisted in this battle and need a little help from…
Anti-pipeline activists rallying against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines are asking their Facebook followers to donate money for gas, so they can travel to and from meetings and protests. “We seriously need gas money,” wrote the Wakpa Waste Pow Wow Grounds Camp on March 26, “We go to meetings over an hour away …..
Despite being evacuated from their camp at the end of February, activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline have continued to raise significant amounts of money. In the past month, protesters have received over $165,000 in new donations, according to a Standing Rock Fact Checker analysis of 410 crowdfunding accounts, which, as of March 22, totaled…
Authorities in Iowa and South Dakota are investigating a series of “coordinated physical attacks” on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that someone used a blowtorch to burn a hole in an above ground safety valve connected to the pipeline. The incident, which was characterized as “felony vandalism” by the South Dakota…
Located just 150 miles upriver from Standing Rock lies the Fort Berthold Reservation, home to the Three Affiliated Tribes — the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara — known as MHA Nation. Unlike Standing Rock, the Three Affiliated Tribes have openly embraced the oil and gas industry and to date have collected more than $800 million in…
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North Dakota faces a risk of major flooding this spring as warmer than average temperatures are forecasted for the Northern Plains. Tom Graziano, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s Office of Water Prediction said, “snowpack is heavy in the West and northern plains, and if our long term warm-up…
A new television ad produced by the Lakota People’s Law Project staring anti-pipeline agitator Chase Iron Eyes attempts to sideline basic facts about the nearly complete Dakota Access Pipeline. CLAIM: The Dakota Access Pipeline was supposed to run 10 miles north of Bismarck, North Dakota, but was rerouted away from the city But when regulators…
Despite all the turmoil happening across the globe, the United Nations is apparently now turning its focus to U.S. domestic energy policy. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a U.N. special rapporteur, falsely said that the Native American tribes had not properly been consulted during the federal review of the Dakota Access…