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Blog Entries by Maude Barlow from 09/2011

Bearing Witness to Guatemala's Destructive Mining Industry

| Posted 09.14.2011 | Canada
Read More: Guatemala, Mining, Water, Heidi McKinnon, Human Rights, Hudbay, Guatemala Mining, Gold, Marlin Mine, Nickel, Indigenous People, El Estor, Canada News

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I Got Arrested For The First Time

| Posted 09.26.2011 | Canada
Read More: Transcanada, Tar Sands, Maude Barlow Arrested, Oil Sands Protests, Canada News, Oil Sands, Alberta Tar Sands, Pipeline Protest Ottawa, Keystone XL Pipeline, Keystone Pipeline Protest Parliament Hill, Transcanada Pipeline, Alberta Oil Sands, Maude Barlow, Tar Sands Protest, Oilsands Protest Ottawa, Canada News

I took a deep breath, stepped on the barrier and crossed over. We were on Parliament Hill to show our opposition to the extension of the Keystone Pipeline, which would take raw bitumen from the tar sands of Northern Alberta over prime farmland and the Ogallala Aquifer to a refinery in Texas.

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