Indigenous Petro-Struggles

12th Novem­ber

Another Elsipogtog Showdown Brewing

SWN Resources Cana­da is plan­ning to resume its con­tro­ver­sial shale gas seis­mic explo­ration work on Wednes­day, accord­ing to Elsi­pog­tog War Chief John Levi. …

Levi said Con­nors told the peo­ple that SWN would with­draw a law­suit against sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers if the Hous­ton-based firm was allowed to fin­ish its explo­ration work unim­ped­ed.

“We said no, we are going to be there,” said Levi, in an inter­view with APTN Nation­al News. “What we told him was we are going to be there Wednes­day.”

Ponca Families Challenge TransCanada

Key­stone XL pipeline oppo­nents took to a Neligh rancher’s land Sat­ur­day, protest­ing the pro­pos­al they say cuts through the his­toric Pon­ca Trail of Tears and pos­es a steep envi­ron­men­tal risk. Pon­ca trib­al fam­i­lies, Oceti Sakowin tribes, Brave Heart Soci­ety, Bold Nebras­ka, and oth­ers — host­ed the Pon­ca Trail of Tears Spir­i­tu­al Camp, the first in a series of trib­al events aimed at show­cas­ing sol­i­dar­i­ty among ranch­ers and Native Amer­i­cans against TransCanada’s project.