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For more than a year, U.S. and Canadian authorities have been girding for a mobilization comparable to the 2016 resistance in North Dakota, according to law enforcement communications and government reports obtained by The Intercept.

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A federal judge rules that the Dakota Access pipeline did not receive an adequate environmental vetting. The rulling in favor of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Wednesday, handing the tribe its first legal victory in its year-long battle against the Dakota Access pipeline.

Last month, the historically ultra-conservative and oil-rich province of Alberta, Canada, did the unthinkable: It elected a left-wing government. And that new government just made one of its first big moves: It announced a serious clamp-down on climate change, including doubling its carbon tax.

May Boeve, Executive Director of 350.org, which spearheaded the fight against the Keystone pipeline, heralded the move as "conclusive proof that activism works. After four years of rallies, marches, sit-ins, and civil disobedience, we’re thrilled to see President Obama take an important first step by vetoing this love letter to Big Oil." A coalition of environmental groups is holding a celebration outside of the White House in Lafayette Park.

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Does the public have the right to be protected, or is corporate power going to run roughshod over the public?

Brent Patterson, the Political Director at the Council of Canadians, proposes five strategies to ensure that the pipeline is never built. (In the face of widespread opposition, Canada's federal government on Tuesday in fact gave the OK to Enbridge's Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline - Portside moderator)

Kitimat, B.C., votes 'no' to Northern Gateway in non-binding plebiscite on $6.5B twin pipeline project.