Four aboriginal groups appealed to Canada's biggest bank to use its corporate heft and political influence to stop Enbridge Inc. (ENB) from building a 725-mile pipeline to carry oil from Alberta's tar sands through northern British Columbia to Kitimat, where it would be loaded on tankers for shipment to the U.S. west coast or Asia.

They also spoke of rising cancer rates, depleted salmon runs and air and water pollution arising from the Alberta oil-sands projects. "Shareholders are contributing to the ecological disaster of Canada's natural resources," said Vice Chief Terry Teegee of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council of British Columbia.

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, as it's known, is the largest crude-oil pipeline expansion in North America, crossing mountainous…read more

Our member Rainforest Action Network is joining with thousands of friends and allies on the internet to send a message to JP Morgan Chase to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining!  JP Morgan Chase is the biggest U.S. financier…read more

It isn't often that Rainforest Action Network heads to Davos for the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF). But that's just what our tar sands campaigner, Brant Olson, is doing. Why? Because as world leaders gather at Davos today to discuss the year's economic fortunes, one financial institution,…read more