Colombian Coal and New Brunswick Power: A Case of Environmental Racism http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/mining/Tracy/Tracy.htm

Environmental racism has long been recognized as a problem. However, it has not gone away. Instead, it has worsened in many ways as a result of government cutbacks in environmental enforcement and of softening of environmental protection regulation, also known as streamlining or deregulation. The "war on terror" has also been used to shut down groups that confronted environmental racism.

Many activists from the Philippines to Ecuador and elsewhere have been branded eco-terrorists for criticizing mega industrial projects like mining - a label that could very well be a death sentence. The label was a death sentence for Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine of his colleagues who were executed a decade ago by the Nigerian government for what many believe was their role in bringing to attention Shell's ecological effects on the Niger Delta.