Alberta: Urgent Action - Murphy Oil Faced With Indigenous Blood Nation Women's Blockade On Fracking Site - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources

Alberta: Urgent Action - Murphy Oil Faced With Indigenous Blood Nation Women's Blockade On Fracking Site - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources

Early tonight, numerous women from the Blood Nation (Alberta, Canada) have courageously parked in front of Murphy Oil's fracking development site vowing not to move until plans of fracking for oil and gas are stopped. The women are part of the Kainai Earth Watch and have been active advocates to stop the fracking due to the major threat to human health, wildlife and livestock and the irreversible damage to the land and water on the Blood Reserve and surrounding areas. They feel this is the only choice left to them to stop the operations as plans for construction begin tomorrow.

In late 2010, Kainaiwa Resources Inc. (KRI) quietly signed off on a deal with the Calgary-based junior mining company Bowood Energy and the U.S. company Murphy Oil. In exchange for the $50 Million, Bowood Energy and Murphy Oil gained a five-year lease to roughly 129, 280 acres, almost half of the Blood's reserve, for oil and gas exploration.