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For immediate release: 17.5.2012

Shell under fire from Indigenous Peoples over human rights abuses and environmental destruction in Canada, Alaska and Nigeria

Report to be launched in London on Friday at a public meeting before the delegation travels to The Hague for next week's Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell.

London, UK – This Friday, May 18th, the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are launching an Indigenous-led campaign against Shell and its harmful projects. A delegation of four Indigenous peoples [1] from North America will participate in the public launch of a report profiling the British-Dutch company’s increasing involvement in the world’s dirtiest and riskiest energy projects.

The launch event, ‘Get the Shell Out’ [2], is taking place at 7.30pm at Toynbee Hall, East London, with opportunities from 6.30pm for media interviews. It is co-hosted by a coalition of organizations which also includes UK Tar Sands Network, Women of Africa, Platform, Rising Tide UK, FairPensions, Greenpeace, Shell to Sea, Climate Rush, Art Not Oil and the Rossport Solidarity Camp.

The new report, entitled “Risking Ruin: Shell’s dangerous developments in the Tar Sands, Arctic and Nigeria” [3] profiles Indigenous communities impacted by Shell’s operations in Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands, Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s territory in Ontario, Alaska’s Arctic Ocean and Africa’s Niger Delta. It argues that the impacts of Shell’s destructive activities outweigh the benefits and expose the company to both reputation damage and political risk, including litigation. Click here to READ MORE


Rights of Mother Earth Conference

RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH: RESTORING INDIGENOUS LIFE WAYS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT International Indigenous Conference APRIL 4 - 6, 2012  at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Kansas Click here to learn more.

IEN and EarthCycles has archived the video presentations of the conference - the topics/talks/panels that were streamed can be found here.

Read: An Indigenous to Indigenous Call for Action from the International Indigenous Leaders Gathering Keynote to Our Indigenous Relatives Gathered at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference Haskell Indian Nations University

Read the Mother Earth Accord or Download/Print PDF


US Tribal Leaders Present President Obama with Mother Earth Accord Opposing Keystone XL

US and Canadian Indigenous Peoples United To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline - Monday, December 5, 2001 - READ NOW.


Statement of the Indigenous Environmental Network
November 10, 2011
Mother Earth Achieves a Victory Today with Obama Administration Decision to Delay the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

Landowners Criticize Nebraska’s Governor & Senators for Drinking TransCanada’s Tar Sands Kool-Aid*

Citizens Call for Keystone XL to Be Blocked

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Native American and Canadian First Nations Took Part In Largest Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline




Keystone Pipeline Faces Indigenous Trans-Border Opposition

Geoff Dembicki, Special to CorpWatch - October 4th, 2011

 In mid-September this year, as sharp winds howled across the Great Plains, indigenous leaders from either side of the U.S. –Canada border held an "emergency meeting" in the basement of a South Dakota casino. They came from all over - one flew in from Canada's frigid Great Bear Lake near the Arctic Circle, a husband and wife drove east on Highway 18 from their reservation, and several more drove west, on Interstate Highway 90.