Drilling

Water Protector Alliance

January 17, 2017 Staff, www.facebook.com Resist! Drilling, Florida, Water, Water Protectors

By Staff of Water Protector Alliance - Hundreds of water protectors gathered in peaceful protest singing and praying. Water trucks needed to drill under the river were blocked for hours. For the first time in history Suwannee River State Park was closed due to capacity. Suwannee County Sheriffs, Florida Highway Patrol, Fish & Wildlife Commission and State Park Rangers arrived in large numbers. No arrests were made and no one was hurt. The Floridan Aquifer, water quality, and ecology are being threatened. Communities have mobilized and are on the move, STAND NOW FOR CLEAN WATER!

Obama Bans New Oil, Gas Drilling Off Alaska, Part Of Atlantic Coast

December 21, 2016 Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner, www.reuters.com Create! Ban, Barack Obama, Drilling

By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner for Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on the environment before Republican Donald Trump takes office next month. Obama used a 1950s-era law called the Outer Continental Shelf Act that allows presidents to limit areas from mineral leasing and drilling. Environmental groups said that meant Trump's incoming administration would have to go court if it sought to reverse the move. The ban affects 115 million acres (46.5 million hectares) of federal waters off Alaska in the Chukchi Sea and most of the Beaufort Sea and 3.8 million acres (1.5 million hectares) in the Atlantic from New England to Chesapeake Bay.

Devon Energy Ends Leases To Drill Near Blackfeet Nation

December 21, 2016 Michael J. Dax, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Drilling, Indigenous Peoples

By Michael J. Dax for Yes! Magazine - As Badger Creek’s oxbows meandered below, Tatsey, who sits on the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, soaked in the gentle undulations of the green foothills and silhouetted peaks that stretched across the horizon as he described the responsibility he feels for the land. “Blackfeet think of time in seven-generation increments, and my grandfather was the first generation,” he began. With his daughter beside him and the afternoon sun lowering behind the mountains, he gestured toward his grandkids running wildly around the hill, adding proudly, “Their grandkids will be the seventh generation. I have to start teaching them to be responsible for this place.”

Oil Production Begins At Controversial Amazon Drilling Project

September 9, 2016 Adam Zuckerman and Kevin Koenig, www.amazonwatch.org Resist! Amazon, Drilling, Oil

By Adam Zuckerman and Kevin Koenig for Amazon Watch - Tomorrow, Ecuadorian state oil company Petroamazonas will produce the first barrel of commercial crude from the ITT (Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) fields that lie beneath Yasuní National Park, an area that some scientists have called the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth. Much of the oil will likely be processed in California, which refined 60% of Ecuador's oil exports in 2015.

Oil And Gas Auctions Move Online After Protests

July 15, 2016 Friends of the Earth, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Obama, Oil and Gas

By Friends of the Earth. Washington, DC - This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed a bill that would require lease sales for offshore oil and gas drilling to be held online rather than in person. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has already moved to shift an onshore public lands auction – originally planned to take place in Washington, DC in September – to be held online. This shift is clearly a response to the mounting pressure from more than a thousand local citizens and activists, who have protested these auctions in communities across the country as part of the “Keep It in the Ground” movement calling on President Obama to define his climate legacy by stopping new fossil fuel leases on public lands and oceans. Moving the auctions online serves one purpose: to make it easier for the fossil fuel industry to take control of our public lands, shielded from public scrutiny and input.

The Arctic Oil Boom Is Over As Oil Companies Agree

June 11, 2016 Jason Schwartz, www.greenpeace.org Educate! Arctic drilling, Drilling, Oil

By Jason Schwartz for Green Peace - Now that Spanish oil company Repsol has relinquished the last of its 93 leases in the Chukchi Sea, only one leaseholder is left — Shell. Why the company is holding onto a single lease after losing billions of dollars and any reputation for competence it might have had is anybody’s guess. But the fact remains: drilling in the Arctic is dangerous and expensive for oil companies, catastrophic for the environment, and unwelcome by the communities who live there.

Guest Column: Time To Stop New Oil Leases Off Coast

March 23, 2016 Anne Rolfes and Cherri Foytlin, www.truth-out.org Resist! Drilling, Gulf Coast of United States, Oil

By Anne Rolfes and Cherri Foytlin for The Advocate - On Wednesday, we are going to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to put forth an idea to help Louisiana and the Gulf region adapt to changes that must be made. On that day, the federal government is auctioning 43 million acres of our Gulf of Mexico to the oil industry for drilling. We will be at the Superdome with hundreds of others from our region and beyond to call on President Barack Obama to cancel this auction and cease issuing new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. It is time.

From An Atlantic Victory To A Gulf Protest

March 21, 2016 David Helvarg, www.voices.nationalgeographic.com Resist! Drilling, Environment, Protest

By David Helvarg for National Geographic - Proposed Atlantic Drilling has gone the way of the Keystone Pipeline – bad ideas whose time has passed. President Obama’s decision to cancel his own proposed lease sales for oil and gas along the Southeast Atlantic coast on March 15 was a clear victory for grassroots activism up and down the eastern seaboard. Seaweed (marine grassroots) activists by the millions signed petitions, passed town and coastal city resolutions, mobilized small businesses, demonstrated and spoke out along with their elected officials of both parties and together they turned the tide.

Activists Halt Drilling For AIM Pipeline

March 1, 2016 Erik Mc Gregor, www.facebook.com Resist! AIM Pipeline, Drilling, Protests

By Erik Mc Gregor for ResistAIM Defenders - 11 arrests as Activists halt drilling for AIM Pipeline near Indian Point. ResistAIM Defenders chain themselves to Access Gate to Halt Hudson River Drilling for AIM Pipeline. Drilling at the Verplanck site is on-ongoing for Spectra’s new AIM Pipeline. Today at 6 AM, 26 people took action to stop the AIM pipeline from being built in Westchester and Rockland by blocking access for over an hour to Spectra Energy's staging area for horizontal drilling under the Hudson River.

NC Town Called ‘Ground Zero’ In Offshore Drilling Fight

January 27, 2016 Sue Sturgis, www.southernstudies.org Resist! Drilling, North Carolina, Offshore Drilling

By Sue Sturgis for The Institute for Changing Studies - Two years ago this month, more than 300 residents of Kure Beach, North Carolina (pop. 2,000), packed town hall to voice their anger with then-Mayor Dean Lambeth's decision to sign a letter supporting seismic testing for offshore oil and gas deposits. The letter was written by America's Energy Forum, a project of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s leading trade association. That contentious meeting was the spark that ignited a growing grassroots movement against the Obama administration's proposal to open an area off the coasts of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia to oil and gas development.

Seven Activists Arrested On Kinder Morgan Barge

January 19, 2016 Zig Zag, www.warriorpublications.wordpress.com Resist! Drilling, Environment, Protestors Arrested

By Zig Zag for Warrior Publications - Police have arrested several activists that occupied a Kinder Morgan drilling barge near the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby Monday morning. According to anti-pipeline activist Adam Gold, two protesters boarded the barge Sunday and stayed overnight. More protesters arrived to join them and bring supplies Monday morning. That’s when police showed up and removed the group.

EPA Sued Over Toxic Pollution From Drilling & Fracking

January 25, 2015 Sharon Kelly, www.desmogblog.com Organize! Drilling, EPA, Fracking, Toxic Chemicals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued over toxic chemicals released into the air, water and land by the oil and gas industry, a coalition of nine environmental and open government groups announced today. The extraction of oil and gas releases more toxic pollution than any other industry except for power plants, according to the EPA's own estimates, the coalition, which filed the lawsuit this morning in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, noted. But the industry has thus far escaped federal rules that, for over the past two decades, have required other major polluters to disclose the type and amount of toxic chemicals they release or dispose. The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) is a federal pollution database, established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, and can be used by first-responders in the event of a crisis as well as members of the general public.

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