Tag Archive for 'Teshekpuk Lake'

09
Jun

US Defers Leasing Teshekpuk Lake to Oil Companies

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently announced it will not open up the Teshekpuk Lake region to the oil industry - at least, not for another ten years.

Home to more than a million migratory birds and a habitat for the 45,000-head Teshekpuk Lake Caribou Herd, Teshekpuk Lake is one of the most important tundra-wetland ecosystems left on the planet. But ever since the US began heaving for more oil they’ve been trying to open the region up, threatening the wildlife, the fragile ecosystem, and seven indigenous communities who culturally and physically depend on the Caribou for subsistence.

The threat inspired tens of thousands of people to come forward, and the banding of several environmental groups and community members to ensure Teshekpuk Lake remains as it has since the 1920s: free from oil exploitation.

In a media release by Audubon Alaska, Stan …

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June 9, 2008
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29
Oct

Save Alaska’s Teshekpuk Lake

Teshekpuk Lake, located in Northern Alaska, is one of the most important and sensitive arctic wetland complexes in the Northern Hemisphere. A summer home to thousands of migratory birds, the lake region is also an important subsistence hunting and fishing ground for the local indigenous population.

In 1923, Teshekpuk Lake was placed into Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and was designated for use by the military, but the government of the day came to see the area was just too unique to exploit. The Bush Administration, however, sees no such value. In fact, for some time they’ve been committed to sacrificing Teshekpuk Lake and numerous other regions to get that liquefied dead matter called oil.

In September of last year, the Bush administration actually tried to sell the area as part of an oil and gas lease sale, but …

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October 29, 2007
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Eight Mayan Women

Eight Mayan Women is a story of continued resistance to the Canadian mining company Goldcorp.

For the past three years the company has been extracting gold and silver in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala. The people of San Miguel have been opposed the operation, primarily out of a concern that it is destroying the environment and draining the region of its water. Many also say they were deceived and forced into selling their lands, and that …


Underreported Struggles #20, November 2008

In the month’s Underreported Struggles: Talisman decides to ignore warning from the Achuar to “get out now”; A spontaneous tribal uprising forms in West Bengal; Vedanta Resources gets chased away by more than …


I Am A Defender of the Rainforest

Known as ‘Soy defensor de la selva’ in Spanish, I am a Defender of the Rainforest is an award-winning documentary that was filmed, edited, and directed by members of the Sarayaku community in southern Ecuador.

The film shows how the …


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