Rebranding of Chase as Mountaintop Removal Financier Goes Viral

Posted February 22, 2010 in The Understory

Last Thursday, Rainforest Action Network along with several online allies including 350.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Ruckus Society and others re-branded JP Morgan Chase in social…

Internet to Chase: Stop Destroying the Mountains

Posted February 17, 2010 in The Understory

JP Morgan Chase is the biggest U.S. financier of mountaintop removal. They have financial relationships with the poster child of mountaintop removal, Massey Energy. That means their money is funds…

Wells Fargo Representing Massey Energy

Posted January 10, 2010 in The Understory

My friend Chuck Nelson is a retired West Virginia underground coal miner. He works hard with Ohio Valley Environment Coalition to protect the beautiful mountains of West Virginia and to…

Huge News for Ontario’s Boreal Forest and its peoples.

Posted July 14, 2008 in The Understory

The Ontario Government just announced plans to protect 56 million acres of Northern Boreal forest from all industry. The area falls entirely in the traditional territories of 36 First Nations…

KI6 and Bob Lovelace are Free!

Posted June 5, 2008 in The Understory

Last week, as hundreds of supporters gathered to demand their release, Bob Lovelace and the KI6 won a ground breaking legal appeal to secure their unconditional release. The community leaders…

Mercenaries, Mining & Martyrs

Posted February 12, 2008 in The Understory

At the end of January leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation began sentencing proceedings for contempt of court charges in Ontario provincial court. The road to this point has…