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Article: Six Grassroots Environmentalists Win $125,000 Goldman Environmental Prize.
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- April 22, 2007
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Family farmer jailed for fighting Shell Oil's illegally-approved gas pipeline and entrepreneur working on innovative fishing rights buyouts in the North Atlantic among six winners of world's largest prize for grassroots environmentalists
SAN FRANCISCO -- An Irish farmer jailed for his work in opposing Shell Oil's natural gas pipeline through his land and an Icelandic entrepreneur saving North Atlantic wild salmon by brokering innovative fishing rights buyouts with North Atlantic governments and commercial interests are among the winners of this year's prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
"This year's Prize recipients have succeeded in combating some ...