The report highlights and analyzes 26 Indigenous frontline struggles in the past decade against a variety of fossil fuel projects across Turtle Island over all stages of the fossil fuel development chain. Our analysis reveals that Indigenous resistance to carbon over the past decade has stopped projects equivalent to 400 new coal-fired power plants, or roughly 345 million new passenger vehicles. Additionally, Indigenous resistance has helped shift public debate around fossil fuels and Indigenous Rights, while averting lock-in of carbon-intensive projects.
Stopping Carbon Lock-In
Oil Change International response to Biden White House OPEC announcement
The Biden White House released a statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan urging OPEC to increase oil production; Oil Change International experts responded.
API’s GHG Reporting Template Is a Model of Misdirection
The American Petroleum Industry’s greenhouse gas reporting template obscures the U.S. oil & gas industry’s massive responsibility for the climate crisis.
Over 500 Groups Call on U.S., Canadian Leaders to Reject Carbon Capture & Storage
More than 500 organizations called on policymakers in the U.S. and Canada to reject Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a dangerous distraction and to end the “carbon capture of climate policy.”
Carbon Capture: Five Decades of False Hope, Hype, and Hot Air
Five decades on from the first CCS project, the technology remains riddled with problems, unproven at scale, and not fit for purpose. It is beyond time to focus on the real solutions to the climate crisis and injustice that the fossil fuel industry has wrought. Neither CO2-rich gas or LNG qualify.
Response to Minnesota Court of Appeals Ruling on Line 3
“Every day President Biden refuses to stop the Line 3 pipeline is a slap in the face to Indigenous and environmental justice communities. Climate leadership means ending the fossil fuel era and stopping Line 3.”
Stop the Money Pipeline Responds to President Biden’s Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk
The Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition welcomes Biden’s Executive Order as an important step for the climate finance movement and urges the administration to deliver strong reports and action plans ahead of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
Oil Change International response to Biden climate finance Executive Order
“President Biden’s executive order is a welcome change from past failures to regulate the financial industry, but the Biden administration must make it crystal-clear that ‘net zero’ means no more fossil fuel expansion and no false solutions,” said Rees.
National groups demand Biden appoint a strong climate leader as Federal Reserve Chair
National organizations are demanding President Joe Biden appoint a strong climate leader as Federal Reserve Chair who will implement policies and rules at the scale needed to address the climate crisis.
California becomes largest oil producer in world to commit to total oil phaseout, ban fracking — but not soon enough
“California is the highest-producing jurisdiction in the world so far to commit to a phase-out of oil extraction, and other major producers need to join the state in committing to move beyond oil and gas,” said Collin Rees of Oil Change International.