December 2009

23 Dec Chevron to pay $45M to U.S., Native Americans in settlement (USA Today)

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Chevron will pay $45.5 million to resolve claims that it underpaid natural gas royalties to the government and Native Americans, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Most of the settlement money will be distributed to federal, state and American Indian accounts affected by the underpayments. More...

21 Dec Guatemala will pay $3 million to massacre victims (Reuters)

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Guatemala will pay $3 million to compensate victims of a civil war-era massacre in order to comply with an international court ruling, the nation's human rights chief said on Monday. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights called for the payments after concluding that the Guatemalan...

17 Dec ICC moves to patch up Inuit climate change rift (Nunatsiaq Online)

Posted at 20:09h in News, Posts

In an effort to patch up the rift between pro-and anti-development Inuit on how to respond to climate change, Inuit and other Arctic indigenous peoples put on a big show of unity Dec. 16 at Inuit and Arctic Indigenous Peoples Day. There, inside the North...