Sentence examples for indigenous opposition from inspiring English sources

The provincial government's denigration has a different purpose: laying the grounds to marginalize and criminalize its Indigenous opposition.

For nearly a decade, Point Hope pressed a lawsuit against the offshore leases, becoming a last stronghold of indigenous opposition.

Ironically, oil-industry executives have so far balked at bidding for these contentious fields, citing the risk of strong indigenous opposition and the limited attractiveness of the contracts.

Moreover, Ecuador's government plans to tender a big chunk of the Amazon for oil exploration later this year, despite indigenous opposition.

Elsewhere in the world, resource companies have been going through a reckoning with these rights—increasingly recognizing the risks that Indigenous opposition poses to projects.

But, until recently, with gas prices low, indigenous opposition high and environmental issues looming, energy companies never found a way to build pipelines to send the gas south to heat homes and to generate electricity.

Indigenous peoples' opposition to U.S. rule in the region ended with the victory of Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, near present-day Toledo, Ohio, in 1794.

For many indigenous leaders, opposition to big oil is colored by the destruction that befell northern Ecuador and the region around Lago Agrio.

In fact, Bahrain has long had a moderate and peaceful indigenous political opposition movement and a civil society of activists such as Mr. Rajab, who is president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.

The opposition Indigenous affairs minister, Shayne Neumann, told Guardian Australia the report showed the Indigenous advancement strategy was "full of cuts and confusion".

The opposition indigenous affairs spokesman, Tony Abbott, said: "Yes, some kids were stolen and this is shameful but many were helped and some were rescued".