Native Americans battle corporations in Idaho
Nez Perce tribe continue their fight against big corporates looking to ship ‘mega-loads’ through their reservation.
Published On 14 Oct 2013
The tar sands region of the Canadian Province of Alberta has proved a lucrative, and controversial, source of oil for the US market.
A remote stretch of highway in the US state of Idaho has become a choke point for tar sands machinery, threatening to cost big oil companies billions of dollars.
The fight against megaloads, activists believe, is also a fight against the ecological damage in the tar sands region of Alberta.
Many also believe it’s a blow in the battle to stop man-made climate change
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports from Idaho.
Source: Al Jazeera