Victory: Idaho Judge Revokes 'Heavy Haul' Tar Sands Trucking Permits
Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:30 am
LEWISTON, Idaho - A judge on Tuesday revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns.
Second District Judge John Bradbury ordered the Idaho Transportation Department to review the request from ConocoPhillips again and to take action to ensure the safety and convenience of the public.
Last week, Bradbury put a temporary halt to the oil company's plans to ship the massive coke drums along the 175-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 12 in northern Idaho. Read more...
EPA Critical of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
A small victory was won in the battle to stop the devastation of Alberta tar sands development: the EPA officially weighed in on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, calling the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement inadequate and raising serious concerns about the environmental review.
The 1700 mile XL pipeline would extend the tentacles of Canadian tar sands development from Alberta to the Texas gulf, cutting across the U.S. heartland. According to the EPA’s comments, pipeline safety, spill response and impacts on First Nations communities in Canada all need further research and assessment, and much more information is needed about the green house gas implications and the need for such a dirty fuels project. Read more...
Plains Justice Release: Keystone XL Environmental Review Fatally Flawed
Groups Ask State Department to Bring Review up to Standards or Deny Pipeline Permit
Today 13 northern plains and Native groups asked the U.S. Department of State either to revise the pipeline's draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) and resubmit it to the public for review or to deny the Keystone XL pipeline's application for a Presidential Permit. Read more...
Native activist LaDuke part of energy issues panel at SKC
By VINCE DEVLIN of the Missoulian, Posted: Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:09 pm
PABLO - Two-time vice presidential candidate and Native American activist Winona LaDuke will be here Saturday afternoon to moderate a panel discussion of energy issues facing Montana and its Indian reservations.
The event, on the Salish Kootenai College campus, will also feature a performance by the Grammy-winning Indigo Girls.
LaDuke and the Indigo Girls are swinging through the Blackfeet and Flathead reservations Friday and Saturday to "raise awareness for a clean energy future," according to a news release.
The panel discussion is titled "Environmental Justice in Montana: Protecting the Land for Future Generations." Read more...
HTE, Women Donors Network and Indigo Girls Together For Montana Environmental Justice Events
Grammy Award-winning Indigo Girls and acclaimed Native activist Winona LaDuke appear with local and regional artists and activists to raise awareness for a clean energy future
MISSOULA, Mont. -- Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are teaming up with Native activist Winona LaDuke and members of the Women Donors Network to host free community events on the Blackfeet and Flathead reservations June 4 and 5. Read more...
4 Earth Day Actions That Can Make a Difference Right Now
On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day we've picked 4 ways that you can make a difference starting right now.
1. Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about the movement for energy justice in Native America.
Knowledge is power and at Honor the Earth it is our mission to create an informed constituency of Native and non-Native supporters. Your outreach allows us to be a stronger voice for the Earth and for those not heard. We need you to stand with us on this Earth Day, and every day, to tell the truth about the impacts of American energy and environmental policy and practice on our Native communities and lifeways.
2. Find out where your energy is coming from. Read more...
It's (Honor the) Earth Day...
Aaniin friends,
It's the 40th anniversary of Earth Day & on this day Honor the Earth celebrates its own beginnings as well.
Nearly 20 years ago, backstage at an Earth Day concert, Indigo Girls first met Winona LaDuke and together they committed to raise awareness and funds for grassroots Native environmental work.
We are still doing this work today. Read more...
If We Can Change Racist Mascots, We Change Racist Energy Policy: Thoughts on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day
Earlier this month, the University of North Dakota (UND) dropped its vilified mascot, The Fighting Sioux. After decades of protests, litigation and sanctions against the school for the racially offensive logo, the North Dakota Board of Education finally retired the mascot. A $50 million UND stadium with 1,200 Fighting Sioux branded arena seats will now have to undergo some changes. Read more...
Winona's Earth Day 2010 Commentary Published Nationwide
Our Executive Director, Winona LaDuke, was asked to write a short commentary about Earth Day for The Progressive Media Project. It's been widely picked up online including the Kansas City Star, Tri-City Herald, Bradenton, Idaho Statesman, Silobreaker, Sacramento Bee, Lexington Herald-Leader, The Olympian, Daily Me, Miami Herald, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. You can read the full commentary below as well. Read more...
AvaTAR SANDS Advertisement Generates Major Media Attention
Honor the Earth is proud to join a coalition of national and international groups who signed a recent advertisement in Variety comparing tar sands development with the plot of the movie Avatar and the ad has generated a lot of attention. The ad is running in Variety just before the Oscars and it expresses support for Avatar because it closely parallels the struggles of real life Indigenous Peoples inundated by tar sands developers. Below are links to some of the prominent media coverage of the ad and a copy of the ad itself. Read more...
Your turn: We need lasting energy economy
By Nellis Kennedy • Honor the Earth • February 22, 2010
(as published in the St. Cloud Times)
Now that the dust has settled and a giant addition to the Big Stone coal power plant known as Big Stone II has been canceled, what next? Read more...No need for coal plants: Wind and solar will do
By: Winona LaDuke and Nellis Kennedy, DL-Online, December 4, 2009
Big Stone II’s demise is not a bad sign for wind, it is the opposite. Now is the opportunity to move ahead to the next economy, not to worry about what we lost with a big polluter. Let’s give this gift to our future generations — a better future.
Take a deep breath and let’s take a look at what the next energy economy will look like.
We will move to an entirely non-fossil fuel economy based on solar and wind. We will have 89,000 solar photovoltaic and concentrated solar panels, 1.7 million rooftop PV systems to reduce combustion on most of our houses and perhaps solar water as well. Read more...
Indian Country Today: Climate workshop stresses sustainability, indigenous knowledge
This story lays out the success and outcomes of the Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop November 18-21 in Prior Lake, Minnesota. Honor the Earth was a key partner in helping to organize the workshop.
Read the full article at Indian Country Today.
Download our full press release.Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop a Huge Success
Close to 400 tribal leaders, elders, scholars and students join together to share Indigenous perspectives and solutions.
Honor the Earth spent several months working with a host of partners to convene a climate change workshop that brought hundreds of tribal college students together with elders, spiritual leaders and some of the most brilliant Native scholars and front-line activists in Indian Country. Read more...
Native Peoples Native Homelands Workshop Agenda Announced
More than 200 Tribal College students, Native community members and environmental allies have registered for the Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop at Mystic Lake next week! Come join us! A group of renowned Indigenous scholars and grassroots activists are coming together from around the country to present at the Workshop and share their vital knowledge on solutions and adaptation strategies for our communities. Click here to read the agenda for the Workshop.
Come Join Us At Native Peoples Native Homelands
by Winona LaDuke
Special to News From Indian Country 10-09We have a shot at being self-determining or we can be the victims. This is a time of tumultuous change, economic downturns, accelerating climate destabilization and the depletion of oil supplies, meaning loss of access to cheap petroleum. If we don’t act, we will be caught in a very difficult place as Indigenous peoples. Read more...
Video: Winona LaDuke at the Indigenous Uranium Forum at Acoma Pueblo
The Indigenous Uranium Forum was held from October 22-24 in Acoma Pueblo. Winona was there to discuss her historical work on uranium issues in Indian Country and talk a bit about our recent work in Saskatoon to halt the use of nuclear power to fuel the Tar Sands project. Check out the great video below. Read more...
Winona LaDuke to Co-Chair Native Peoples Native Homelands Workshop
Honor the Earth is part of a national Planning Committee organizing the Native Peoples Native Homelands II workshop. Read more...
Big Stone II Victory! Otter Tail Withdraws Investment
Minn. utility quits Big Stone II
MINNEAPOLIS - The utility leading an effort to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in South Dakota that would serve five states has pulled out of the project. Read more...
Big Stone II: A sinking ship
By: Nellis Kennedy and Winona LaDuke, DL-Online, September 9, 2009
Tribal peoples of the Midwest are counting on you, Bill Gates, to keep their air clean and their water mercury-free. Gates’ personal investment company, Cascade Investment Management, has the opportunity to stop the continued burning of Powder River Basin coal in South Dakota. After several years of planning, Otter Tail Power’s Big Stone I is to be joined by the 580 MW proposed addition Big Stone II, but timing is critical as the project is gathering a final commitment from investors like Gates who have the ability to prevent construction altogether. Read more...
