oil & gas
The oil and gas industry fuels a heck of a lot more than cars and motor boats. It also fuels ground wars, genocidal dictators, collapsing economies, environmental destruction and the decimation of entire civilizations that could otherwise go on forever.
In this section of Intercontinental Cry, you will find a series of articles and videos about the industry that’s too big not to fail, especially as it pertains to Indigenous Peoples.
Sub-sections: Tar Sands – Fracking – Niger Delta – Chevron
Achuar Leaders In Canada To Confront Talisman Energy, Build Alliances
A group of Achuar delegates are in Canada this week to confront the Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy, for drilling for oil in their ancestral territory in the Peruvian...
Lukoil Threatens Arctic Reindeer
An oil spill in northern Russia from a joint venture between Lukoil and Bashneft has damaged fragile reindeer pastures in yet another blow to the indigenous Nenets people. Environmental...
Quechua People set for showdown with oil company on Rio Pastaza
Citing oil company abuses and broken government promises, indigenous Quechua people of the Pastaza River basin in Peru’s northern Amazon set a deadline that could soon bring them into direct...
Chevron Lawyer Claims that Victims of Rainforest Contamination Are “Irrelevant”
On February 15th of this year, Doak Bishop, a lawyer representing the American oil giant Chevron, claimed that all 30,000 people affected by Chevron's 16 billion gallons of oil...
William Housty Addresses NEB on Heiltsuk Culture, Threat of Oil Spill 
30 year-old William Housty's powerhouse presentation to the National Energy Board's Enbridge hearings in his community of Bella Bella. William describes the history, language and culture of his people...
Native Americans Compelled to Protest Keystone XL From A Cage
A group of Native American activists who gathered in Cushing, OK, today were stunned after local authorities forced them into cage, miles away from their destination. The activists were...
Oil Drilling Threatens Indigenous Mapuche in Argentina
While new techniques of hydrocarbon drilling, such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in new areas are lauded by some as a solution to Argentina’s energy imports, the indigenous communities...
Leading By Example: T’Souke Nation Solar Community
"First Nations have experience in living on this continent for thousands of years without use of fossil fuels. It is now appropriate that First Nations demonstrate how to live...
The law is running out of gas in Belize
Two nights ago five men searched in the darkness for Enrique Makin, the chairman of a Maya village. Four of them were from the Belizean government’s department of geology...
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent –...
The True Story of Chevron’s Ecuador Disaster
Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave...
Ogoni Establish Their Own Environmental Protection Agency
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), an Ogoni-based non-governmental, non-political organization for the Ogoni people of South-Eastern Nigeria, have announced the creation of a new Environmental...
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