Articles by Robert Redford

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Robert Redford: I Stand with the Standing Rock Sioux
Robert Redford - TIME, 3 Oct 2016

In their protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will affect far more families than their own.

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Save Jeju Island
Robert Redford – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Sep 2012

From September 6-15 [2012], some 10,000 environmentalists gather in Jeju Island for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress. It will take place where the construction of a naval base is threatening coral forests, assaulting endangered species and destroying a 400-year old community of farmers and fishers. But instead of condemning the South Korean government’s actions, IUCN Director-General Julia Marton-Lafevre praised its seriously flawed “Environmental Impact Assessment.” This naval base is being built just 0.13 miles from a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Tiger Island.

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Punching Back at Big Oil
Robert Redford - Reader Supported News, 26 Sep 2011

When you challenge Big Oil in Houston, you can bet the industry is going to punch back. So when I wrote in the Houston Chronicle earlier this month that we should say no to the Keystone XL pipeline, I wasn’t surprised when the project’s chief executive weighed in with a different view. Let’s set the record straight, point by point.

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