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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 25, 2008
3:53 PM

CONTACT: Western Shoshone Defense Project
Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone grandmother, 775-468-0230  / 
Dan Randolph, Great Basin Resource Watch, 775-722-4056  / 
Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775-744-2565 or wsdp@igc.org

Restraining Order Filed – Shoshone Grandmothers Plan Resistance Day Proposed Mine Site

CRESCENT VALLY, NEWE SOGOBI, Nev. - November 25 - As the holidays approach and the world watches President-elect Obama and the bailouts; back in Nevada, home state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, it's business as usual. Late yesterday, attorneys for several Western Shoshone tribes and non-profit indigenous and environmental organizations filed a request in the federal District Court in Reno, NV seeking a restraining order against the construction of one of the country's largest open pit gold mines on the flank of spiritual Mt. Tenabo.

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Posted in mining, protest

Dear Al Gore: Speak Against the Rape of Coal River Mountain

Dear Al Gore:

Two months ago at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, you declared that, "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

Posted in coal, Environment, mining, renewable energy

Shoshone Indians Sue to Stop Barrick's Nevada Gold Mine

Carrie Dann prays for the Earth. Dann characterizes the \"destruction of the water\" as \"destruction of the blood of the earth\" which entails \"destroying life of the earth and the people and the wildlife that depend on it. Dewatering is taking the life of future generations.\" (Photo by Erin Hetherington courtesy Oxfam)

CRESCENT VALLEY, Nevada - Five tribal and public interest parties filed a lawsuit in Nevada Federal Court on Thursday, seeking an immediate injunction to stop one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States - the Cortez Hills Expansion Project on Mt. Tenabo.

Canadian Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold mining company, plans to construct and operate the mine in an area that the lawsuit states is "located entirely within the territory of the Western Shoshone Nation."

Posted in Activism, Indigenous peoples, mining
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