List of environmental conflicts explained

The Environmental Justice Atlas documented 3,100 environmental conflicts worldwide as of April 2020 and emphasised that many more conflicts remained undocumented.^[1]

Climate

• Global Climate March
• Global Day of Action
• March Against Monsanto
• March for Science (2017)
• People's Climate March (2014)
• People's Climate March (2017)
• School strike for climate / Fridays for Future (FFF) (2018–)
  • September 2019 climate strikes
• Stop Climate Chaos
• Say Yes demonstrations
• March for Science Portland
• Camp for Climate Action
• End Fossil - Occupy!^[2]

Mining

• Antamina mine
• Akyem mine
• Ashio Copper Mine
• 2000 Baia Mare Cyanide spill
• Bajo de la Alumbrera mine
• Chirano Gold Mine
• Famatina mining protests
• Fruta del Norte mine
• Garzweiler surface mine
• Konkola Copper Mines
• La Colosa mine
• Lake Natron
• Las Bambas copper mine
  • 2015 Peruvian protests against Las Bambas mining project
• El Chanate
• Conflict minerals
• Cuajone mine
• Dairi mine
• Dolores mine
• Escobal mine protests
• Fenix Nickel Project
• Himpunan Hijau
• Kabwe mine
• Kamoto mine
• Kenticha mine
• Lega Dembi mine
• Los Pelambres mine
• Marange diamond fields
• Marikana massacre
• Mirador mine
• Mrima Hill mine
• Mutanda mine
• Nchanga Copper mine
• Ok Tedi Mine
• Phosphorite War
• Pueblo Viejo mine
• QMM mine
• Tilwezembe mine
• Rennell Island bauxite mine
• Resolution Copper (Oak flat)
• La Revancha mine
• Rio Tinto massacre
• Roșia Montană protests
• Rovina mine
• San Carlos Panantza mine
• Shifang protest
• Thacker Pass lithium mine
• Toquepala mine
• Toroku arsenic disease
• Uranium mining on Navajo reservations
• 2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest
• Xolobeni mine
• Yanacocha gold mine

Fossil fuels

See also: List of oil spills.

• Amuay tragedy
• Arun gas field
• Bayou Bridge Pipeline protests
• Block 5A, South Sudan
• Cassurubá Extractive Reserve
• Chevron Richmond Refinery
• Coastal GasLink pipeline
  • 2020 Candainan pipeline and railway protests
• Corrib gas controversy
• Dakota Access Pipeline protests
• Grassy Mountain Coal Project
• Hambach Forest
• Karachaganak Field
• Keystone pipeline
• Lago Agrio oil field
• 2012–2014 Romanian protests against shale gas
• Environmental issues in the Niger Delta
  • Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
• Natural gas in Papua New Guinea
• Pungarayacu oil field
• Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex
  • Stop Line 3 Trans Mountain pipeline

Renewables

• Bedford Biofuels
• Lake Turkana Wind Power Station
• Lamu Wind Power Station
• Ngodwana Biomass Power Station

Timber and agriculture

• Indigenous rainforest blockades in Borneo
• Chipko movement
• Fairy Creek timber blockade
• Grassy Narrows road blockade
• Gurindji Strike
• Mau Forest
• Pesticide incidents in the San Joaquin Valley
• Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary
• Chico Mendes
• Green Belt Movement

Toxic waste

• Agbogbloshie
• Cancer Alley
• China PX protests
• Grassy Narrows mercury poisoning
• Electronic waste in Guiyu
• Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan
• Jinkanpo Atsugi Incinerator
• 2005 Huashui protest
• Kokuba River
• Love Canal protests
• Qidong protest
• Khian Sea waste disposal incident
• North Carolina PCB Protest, 1982
• Washington Works
• Dupont Chambers Works
• The Lafarge-Holcim cement factory in Montcada i Reixac (Catalonia)^[3]
• Prestige oil spill
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Infrastructure and urban development

• 2011 Bolivian indigenous rights protests
• Basque Y
• Ciudad Real International Airport
• Eurovegas
• Fehmarn Belt fixed link
• Gezi Park protests
• Green Bans
• Hands off our Forest
• Heathrow airport expansion
• High Speed 2
• Homes before Roads
• Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
• List of road protests in the UK and Ireland
• Nairobi Southern Bypass Highway
  • Oka Crisis Parc Olympique Lyonnais
• Port of Granadilla
  • Runway 18 West Stop Cop City
• Stuttgart 21

Dams and water conflicts

• Agua Zarca dam
• Belo Monte dam
• Bhakra Dam
• Bujagali Hydroelectric Power Station
• Chico River dam
• Flint water crisis
• Hatgyi Dam
• Rasi Salai Dam
• Sardar Sarovar Dam
• Save Manapouri Campaign
• Plachimada Coca-Cola struggle
• Sơn La Dam
• Tagus-Segura Water Transfer
• Tellico Dam
• Tipaimukh Dam
• Cochabamba Water War
• Les Soulèvements de la Terre^[4]
• Yali Falls Dam
• Yortanlı Dam

Nuclear

See also: List of civilian nuclear accidents, List of military nuclear accidents and List of civilian radiation accidents.

• Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant
• Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival (1980s)
• Chernobyl disaster
• Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant
• Fukushima Daiichi disaster
• ITER
• Kyshtym disaster
• Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory
• Nuclear industry in South Australia
  • Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta
• Nevada Desert Experience
• Nuclear-free protests in New Zealand (1960 - 1980)
• Nuclear programme of South Africa
• Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant

Disasters

See also: List of environmental disasters.

• Bhopal disaster
• Hurricane Katrina
• San Juanico disaster

Conservation and tourism

• Pirin National Park
• Serengeti National Park
• Sun Peaks Resort
• Tablas de Daimiel National Park

See also

• Anti-nuclear protests
• Blockadia
• Environmental activism
• Environmental racism

Notes and References

1. Scheidel . Arnim . Del Bene . Daniela . Liu . Juan . Navas . Grettel . Mingorría . Sara . Demaria . Federico . Avila . Sofía . Roy . Brototi . Ertör . Irmak . Temper . Leah . Martínez-Alier . Joan . 2020-07-01 . Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview . Global Environmental Change . en . 63 . 102104 . 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102104 . 0959-3780 . 7418451 . 32801483.
2. Web site: End Fossil - Occupy! . 2023-05-15 . End Fossil - Occupy! . en-GB.
3. Web site: EJOLT . Waste incineration fuelled cement plant in Montcada i Reixac, Spain EJAtlas . 2023-05-15 . Environmental Justice Atlas . en.
4. News: Gayle . Damien . 2023-05-04 . Fire and concrete: will France's model of radical climate protest catch on? . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-05-18 . 0261-3077.