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An unjust transition: Energy, colonialism and extractivism in occupied Western Sahara

For Saharawis living in the occupied territory, energy justice is inextricably linked with independence and decolonization.

Commentary: Fighting climate change requires individual action and systemic change

Fighting climate change can often feel like an overwhelming endeavor. Success must be reached using a combination of tactics in a sustained and relentless manner, according to experts.

Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition

On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red areas of “threat” to the bottom line.

Pipeline Protesters Face Corporate Counterinsurgency in Minnesota

How extractive industries manage to carry on harming the planet

To understand how this is possible, one place to start is recognising that extraction is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well. To be able to function smoothly, extractive corporations and their governmental allies sculpt social conditions. They “manufacture” consent and “manage” dissent towards their ventures. These industries depend on shaping the perceptions and behaviour of governments, shareholders, consumers, and people living in the areas where large-scale resource extraction occurs. Usually, the media and academics pay attention when people resist such projects. A well known case is the struggle of the Ogoni people in southeast Nigeria to hold the oil company Shell to account for massive pollution. But it’s also important to notice the way corporations, governments and other elites try to pre-empt opposition.