New England Tar Sands Pipeline plotted ‘behind closed doors’
October 10, 2012. Source: Common Dreams Note: As the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas is halting construction on the Keystone XL, activists and organizers in New England and northeastern Canadian provinces...
View ArticlePortland pipeline at center of fierce fight in Maine
By Colin Nickerson, April 21, 2013. Source: The Boston Globe Over seven decades, the Portland pipeline has propelled some 5 billion gallons of crude oil across the mountains and beneath the pristine...
View ArticleSmall farms fight back: Food and community self governance
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, July 8, 2013. Source: Toward Freedom Heather Retberg stood on the steps of the Blue Hill, Maine town hall surrounded by 200 people. “We are farmers,” she told the crowd,...
View ArticleBig Oil’s bid to crush small town stand against tar sands
Industry cash and lobbyists pour into coastal Maine town in effort to defeat residents’ initiative to block dirty oil project By Sarah Lazare, October 28, 2013. Source: Common Dreams Big Oil is...
View ArticleArctic conference in Maine to focus on state’s role in studying melting ice caps
Note: And by studying the melting ice caps, the Maine National Guard of course means figuring out how they might get a piece of the oil and gas pie under the Arctic. Sigh… -The GJEP Team By Nok-Noi...
View ArticleCall for solidarity actions in support of Maine rail blockade
May 18, 2014. Source: Maine Earth First! On May 22nd two of three people who blockaded railroad tracks in Auburn last August, Doug Bowen and Jessie Dowling of Maine Earth First!, willhave a hearing at...
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