Arctic Oil & Gas News

Changes in Regulations Could Help Break the Offshore Ice, posted on The Moscow Times State-controlled oil giant Rosneft had a very good year. That is what company chief executive Igor Sechin told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday at a meeting to review Russia’s largest oil producer, whose capitalization grew by 18 percent to $73…

Indigenous & Aboriginal News

Canada natives vow to fight protest ban, posted on PressTV An indigenous group in Canada has vowed to continue to fight for the right to protest against fracking activities on traditional lands in the northern province of Alberta. The pledge by Lubicon Lake Nation comes as a Calgary court granted last month Penn West Petroleum…

Aboriginal News

  Idle No More anniversary sees divisions emerging, By Daniel Schwartz, Posted on CBC News Idle No More, the indigenous movement that began a year ago today, says it has a database of 254,000 supporters. Some, however, are concerned about the direction its founders want to go. A Saskatoon teach-in on Nov. 10, 2012 marked the founding…