In this heavily drilled North Texas city, a UK-based investigative reporter finds echoes of TotalEnergie’s oil exploitation of Nigeria, Iraq, and Kurdistan.
Tag: fracking
Bridge to the Ancestors: Indigenous Run Decries Colonial Violence in Texas
Racist mascots. Fossil fuel extraction. Murdered and missing indigenous women. Native runners highlight the high cost of continuing colonial domination in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
People’s Earth Week: Just Add Wheatpaste
What better way to reclaim the radical roots of Earth Day than by simultaneously making the world a more beautiful place?
Messing with Texas: The Big Stories to Watch in 2022
Texas-based reporters, activists, and academics told us what they’re watching—or hope to be watching —in 2022.
Carbon Metrics Can Cloud the Changes We Actually Need
“Better and richer strategies [for addressing climate crisis] require a different way of thinking and knowing as well as active engagement to reclaim and conserve the spaces where these alternatives can grow and flourish.”
‘Terrified’ Pennsylvania General Energy Company Seeks to Destroy Local Rights of Nature Law
‘PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said “hell no” multiple times.’ Jessica Corbett/Common Dreams In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the […]
Welcome to West Texas: The World’s ‘Extraction Colony’
An unprecedented drilling boom in West Texas’s Permian Basin is great for business. But it’s polluting the air, overwhelming communities and threatening the planet. Kiah Collier, Jamie Smith Hopkins, & Rachel Leven MIDLAND, Texas — Drilling booms have come and gone in this oil town for nearly a century. But […]
Russian Hackers & Lamar Smith: Fuck You Both, Actually
New Congressional report demonstrates Lamar Smith and Russian hackers both doing their part to ratchet up the race to the bottom. Marisol Cortez & Greg Harman Remember when Russia Today, DBA RT America, contacted Deceleration for permission to use video we shot of Native-led pipeline resistance in West Texas? Yeah, […]