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"Canada Oil Pipeline Spills 200,000 Liters On Aboriginal Land" [1]

"A pipeline in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan has leaked 200,000 liters (52,834 gallons) of oil in an aboriginal community, the provincial government said on Monday."

Energy & Fuel [2]
People & Population [3]
Pollution [4]
Public [5]
Canada [6]
Source: Reuters [7], 01/24/2017
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On Arizona Apache Reservation, A Toxic Legacy Of Chemical Spraying [8]

"SAN CARLOS APACHE RESERVATION — The sound always came first, a low buzz that grew and grew until it roared through the valley. Then the olive-colored plane appeared overhead, flying low. In its wake was a thick shower of oily droplets making a long, slow fall to the forested gullies below."

People & Population [3]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: LA Times [10], 01/20/2017
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"Wisconsin Tribe Votes to Evict Oil Pipeline From Its Reservation" [11]

"The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin voted not to renew an easement for a major oil and gas pipeline that passes through its reservation. In the wake of the successful protest against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, this decision is the latest example of Native American tribes using sovereignty rights to oppose fossil fuel projects."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]
Source: InsideClimate News [14], 01/17/2017
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"US Agrees To Pay Billions To Marines Affected By Toxic Water" [15]

"After years of wait, veterans who had been exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina may now be able to receive a portion of government disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion."

Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [17]
People & Population [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: AP [20], 01/13/2017
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30 Years Later, Blackfoot Tribes See Environmental Win On Sacred Grounds [21]

"U.S. officials on Tuesday announced the cancellation of the final two oil and gas leases in a wilderness area bordering Glacier National Park that's sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of Montana and Canada."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: AP [23], 01/11/2017
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"Wisconsin Tribe Votes Against Renewing Enbridge Pipeline Agreements" [24]

"A Native American tribe in Wisconsin has voted against renewing agreements allowing Enbridge Inc to use their land for a major crude oil pipeline, the latest sign of increasing opposition to North American energy infrastructure."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]
Source: Reuters [25], 01/10/2017
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"Shielded Native American Sites Thrust Into Debate Over Dams" [26]

"A little-known federal program that avoids publicizing its accomplishments to protect from looters the thousands of Native American sites it's tasked with managing has been caught up in a big net."

Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [3]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: AP [28], 01/02/2017
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"Michigan Mine Gains Two State Permits; Tribe Vows To Continue Fight" [29]

"The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality this week approved a general mining permit and an air use permit for the Back Forty mine in the western Upper Peninsula despite tribal opposition over its location on sacred ground."

Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]
Source: EHN [30], 12/30/2016
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"Native Americans of Grand Bayou Seeking Help To Remain In Homeland" [31]

"Like many Louisiana coastal residents, the Native Americans of Grand Bayou village have seen the landscape surrounding their community collapse over the past 50 years. The lush, freshwater wetlands and high ground that sustained them for centuries is now a ragged patchwork of crumbling salt marshes and expanding lagoons."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [2]
People & Population [3]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: New Orleans Lens [33], 12/29/2016
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Arctic Oil Rush: Nenets' Livelihood And Habitat At Risk From Oil Spills [34]

"The livelihood of the Nenets people who live along the northern stretches of the Yenisei, Russia’s longest river, depends on two pursuits: fishing and reindeer herding. But locals have said both of those activities are under threat from an oil terminal due to be built on the Tanalau cape, near where the river empties into the Arctic Ocean."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Fish & Fisheries [35]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
Antarctica & Arctic [36]
Europe [37]
Source: Guardian [38], 12/26/2016
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