Sentences with phrase «protest over oil»

Tens of angry residents in the Keta Municipality have hit the streets in protest over oil exploration in the region.

The residents, wearing red attires and bands hit the streets in protest over the oil exploration in the region.

Not exact matches

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

The protest also comes amid continued activism by indigenous groups across the U.S., who have rallied over issues ranging from sports mascots to environmental causes such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.

A nationwide Occupy Nigeria protest, over oil subsidy removal, had paralysed the country.

(08/07/2009) Despite violent protests by indigenous groups over plans to expand oil and gas exploration in the Peru's Amazon rainforest, energy investments in the South American country are expected to increase to $ 1.5 billion in both 2009 and 2010, reports Reuters.

Over the years it's morphed with the culture into a sort of good carbs / bad carbs permutation that has activists protesting fracking and the Keystone pipeline (gooey tar sands may be the gluten in this metaphor) while leaving conventional gas, oil, and coal consumption relatively unscathed.

So they have taken to peaceful protests for the last two months, including stringing wire across rivers, and taking over oil facilities in the jungle with bows and arrows.

Economic problems in Venezuela, which began due to the fall of oil prices and the socialist economy put in place by former President Hugo Chavez, have caused protests to emerge all over the country.