“Coal is not progress, it is death”: Indigenous Wayuu woman
Indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombian communities have long been vocal against the forced displacement, environmental degradation, human rights abuses and increasing ...
Tag: blood coal
From Colombia to New Brunswick: What does a just energy transition look like for where “blood coal” is extracted and burned?
With New Brunswick planning to close its Belledune coal plant in 2030 as part of Canada’s transition off coal, advocates ...
Lido Pimienta raises pandemic relief funds for Indigenous Wayúu affected by the mining of coal destined for New Brunswick
When Toronto-based artist-musician Lido Pimienta performed at a Pitchfork stay-at-home concert this past April, she chose to spotlight Fuerza de ...
Challenging NB Power’s use of “blood coal” from Colombia
New Brunswick’s economy has long centered on resource extraction. Timber, mining, and oil and gas, significant contributors to the province’s ...
Colombia’s largest indigenous group is dying with media complicity
Editor's note: NB Power sources some of its coal from the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. Earlier this week, on ...
NB Power asked to put conditions on blood coal from Colombia
Fredericton - A Colombian union leader, lawyer and survivor of eight assassination attempts told a crowd gathered on November 24 ...
“Blood coal” part of NB’s energy mix
NB Power's Belledune plant burns coal extracted from the world’s largest open-pit coal mine; the Cerrejón mine in La Guajira, ...
‘The living dead’
A case of environmental racism in New Brunswick concerns the coal extracted from mines in Colombia that is then exported ...