WATER 4 ALL!!

 

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs: Water is a Human Right. Take action for the right to water ==> http://bit.ly/Take-Action-for-the-Right-to-Water-Water-is-a-Human-Right

Oil Company Under Fire in Amazon: New Inquiries, Exposés and Penalties Fuel Indigenous Movement

By Darrin Mortenson July 30, 2012

Courtesy Debbie Rivet, Alianza Arkana

 

IQUITOS, Peru—The world that PlusPetrol has built in Peru’s Amazon over the last 16 years seems to be crumbling under the weight of the company’s alleged crimes.

The Argentinian oil company – notorious for allegedly spilling oil, dumping toxic petro-chemicals and production waters into streams used by indigenous communities – is finally getting the attention it deserves.

On the pleading of indigenous leaders whose people have suffered four decades under the oil regime in the region of Loreto, a congressional investigation finally led to the arrival of four members of Congress who, in late June, had to see for themselves the contamination that officials at all levels of government have ignored for years.

In one visit, a congresswoman slipped into an oil-filled pond that the company allegedly denied even existed. In another, legislators arrived on the scene as PlusPetrol workers were bulldozing dirt and trees on top an oil-filled lake to hide potential contamination.

“This is how it is. This is what we live with out there,” said Adolfo Rengifo Hualinga, vice president of the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes (FECONACO).

In recent testimony before Peru’s Congress, PlusPetrol officials blamed indigenous “vandalism” for a majority of their spills, claiming that the Natives were responsible for poisoning themselves.

Rashes and fevers are common among villagers on the Pastaza and other nearby rivers where oil spills are frequent. (Courtesy Debbie Rivet, Alianza Arkana)

After Quechua communities on the Pastaza River rose up to protest PlusPetrol in June, threatening to add to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s many woes, a cabinet-level commission was mobilized and dispatched to the community of Alianza Topal…
Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/30/oil-company-under-fire-in-amazon-new-inquiries-exposes-and-penalties-fuel-indigenous-movement-125976 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/30/oil-company-under-fire-in-amazon-new-inquiries-exposes-and-penalties-fuel-indigenous-movement-125976#ixzz22giJ8iD4

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Bigger Threat Than Tsunami Debris

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/08/great-pacific-garbage-patch-bigger-threat-than-tsunami-debris-scientists-117267

Karuk Tribe joins lawsuit to protect salmon

By: Native News Network Staff in Native Currents

YREKA, CALIFORNIA – On Thursday, Klamath Riverkeeper filed an Endangered Species Act citizen suit over a dam and series of water diversions operated by Montague Water Conservation District on the Shasta River in Siskiyou County. The Karuk Tribe also decided today to file its own 60-day notice of intent to litigate on the same grounds.

Water Diversions Removal

The legal filing by Klamath Riverkeeper follows a 60-day notice period during which KRK offered Montague Water Conservation District an opportunity to negotiate a settlement outside the courtroom. The action effectively calls on the irrigation district to remedy its impacts to salmon runs verging on extinction there.

“ We simply have to better manage limited water resources to benefit everyone in the watershed. We hope to resolve this issue in a way that will restore endangered coho salmon while preserving a viable agricultural economy in Siskiyou County,”

said KRK Executive Director Erica Terence.

Klamath Riverkeeper ‘s complaint, filed in federal court in Sacramento, outlines how…For more go to this link.

http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/karuk-tribe-joins-lawsuit-to-protect-endangered-salmon.html

Indigenous Protests of Oil Company Yield Accord in Peru’s Amazon

By: Darrin Mortenson

After threatening to seize several of the company’s Amazon oil wells unless officials sat down to talks, Achuar indigenous communities on the Corrientes River won major concessions from Argentinian driller PlusPetrol recently, including a commitment to finally clean up the oil-sodden lake and tributary of Atiliano near the communities of Pucacuro and Pavayacu.

The company may also have to pay for extensive damages to health, the environment…

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/25/indigenous-protests-of-oil-company-yield-accord-in-perus-amazon-114564#ixzz1w8DENRN5

Navajo-Hopi water project

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/27/black-mesa-shouldering-the-burden-of-navajo-hopi-water-project-115274