Tag: Indigenous

Oil Spill: 50,000 Gallons Leaked By Trans Mountain Pipeline Onto Indigenous Land

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020Environment

By Anthony McLennan About 190,000 liters or approximately 50,000 gallons of oil has been spilled on Indigenous land in British Columbia by Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline. The Trans Mountain pipeline was bought by the Canadian government from Kinder Morgan Canada in 2018, after they had…

Indigenous Group Wins Lawsuit To Protect Amazonian Land From Oil Companies

January 25, 2020Environment

By John Vibes This week, a Peruvian indigenous group won a lengthy court battle to save their land from oil exploration. The land is located in the Amazon, along the border between Peru and Brazil. There have been plans to turn the land into an…