Energy

Free Your Voice Occupies MDE To Demand They Uphold Law

December 16, 2015 Destiny Watford, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Baltimore, Energy, Environment, health

By Destiny Watford. Baltimore, MD - Yesterday was an intense and powerful display of commitment to our basic human rights. Nearly 200 people gathered at the Maryland Department of the Environment Headquarters to follow up on the 1000's of Marylanders calling upon MDE to enforce the law regarding the trash burning incinerator's expired permit. The plan was simple - we would form a single file line and one by one we all would drop off hand cut sunflower petitions and comments directly to MDE. What happened next was shocking. Instead of welcoming residents who have taken the time to participate and express their views on an issue of great concern - MDE locked us out with security posted at the front gate to "greet" us by telling us to go away. We did not go away. Instead we stood strong guided by what drives us - the call for justice.

National Geographic: Blueprint For A Carbon-Free World

December 13, 2015 Staff, www.nationalgeographic.com Create! Energy, Hydroelectric Energy, Solar, Sustainable energy, Wind

By Staff for Popular Resistance. National Georgraphic has published an interractive tool that allows you to search their data base of nations and determine the mix of renewabale energy they could have if the were to move to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy. National Geographic describes the project: "Mark Jacobson, a Stanford engineering professor, believes the world can eliminate fossil fuels and rely on 100 percent renewable energy. Following up on his state-by-state road map for the United States, he has now released data on plans for how 139 countries could wean themselves from coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. For more coverage of Mark Jacobson's 100 percent renewable plans, For example, the mix for the United States would be: - 30 percent onshore wind - 17 percent off shore wind - 24% solar plant - 8% residential rooftop - 7% commercial and government rooftop - 7% concentrated solar - 3% hydroplant

In And After Paris: A Climate Justice Agenda

December 11, 2015 Steve Breyman, www.popularresistance.org Strategize! Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, COP21, Energy

By Steve Breyman for Popular Resistance. Paris, France - Cultural pessimists don’t see much they like at the Paris climate talks. Skepticism at times like these is nearly always justified. At the same time, it may be that Paris was a minute improvement — on some issues — upon the previous gatherings of elected officials, diplomats, corporate hacks, activists, celebrities, and media that constitute these annual circuses. And it’s likely that the angry and energized climate justice movement is primed to pressure the big polluters like never before. No, the glass is not half full. Delegates will not agree to emissions reductions necessary to meet even their own inadequate target of 2 degrees C increase in global temperature. It’s thus possible to see the draft treaty as a step backward.

Protesters Want Flowers, Not Power Plants

December 6, 2015 Steve Ahlquist, www.rifuture.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Spectra

By Steve Ahlquist for RIFuture.org. Burrillville, RI - Five women were arrested on Spectra Energy property in Burrillville this afternoon, during a protest in which they attempted to plant tulips where Spectra wants to expand pipelines and near where Invenergy wants to build a new methane gas power plant. Police said that three other protesters were arrested after they made it onto on the construction site via the woods behind the the new compressor station, bringing the total number of known arrests to eight. Among those arrested was Mary Pendergast from the Sisters of Mercy in Pawtucket. in a statement she said, “By taking action today, I’m following the directive of Pope Francis to put our lives on the line for care of the earth.”

Rebuilding The World: An Interview with Lester Brown

December 6, 2015 Amitabh Pal, www.progressive.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Solar, Wind

By Amitabh Pal for the Progressive. The two big issues we are facing are climate change and water shortages. Water shortages are more imminent. They’re here now. We suddenly look around and realize that water tables are falling everywhere: throughout the high plains of the United States, for instance, in the Ogallala Aquifer. This is a huge source of water, but it has already been pumped out in Texas-Oklahoma. Much of the water used in the world comes from aquifers. There are thirty-seven major aquifers. More than twenty of them have no major recharge at all. When they’re gone, they’re gone. Over the last thirty years, numerous lakes and rivers have disappeared in the world, and that’s going to continue. Some of the larger rivers no longer make it to the sea, such as the Colorado River or the Yellow River. We’ve got to reshape the economy to make it much more water-efficient than it now is. We know that there are already a number of countries that are running out of water. They’ve pumped their aquifers dry or they’re getting very close to it. This includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. And in India, water tables are falling everywhere. The question is: What happens when wells start to run dry?

Climate Action: Support Burrillville In Spectra Fight

November 29, 2015 FANG, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Oil and Gas, Spectra

By Fighting Against Natural Gas (FANG). Burrillville, RI - On December 4-5th we'll be gathering in Burrillville, RI with BASE (Burrillville Against Spectra Expansion) to reflect on two years of resistance and to take action once again. Invenergy, a Chicago based corporation, recently filed their application to build a $700 million fracked-gas power plant in Burrillville. Invenergy has been going through the community telling residents that if they want to move away from the proposed toxic plant, they'll happily purchase and then bulldoze their homes. Now is the time to come together and support the folks leading the resistance on the frontlines in Burrillville and send a message to Invenergy and Spectra (who's pipeline would be expanded again to help feed the power plant) that we will fight their fracked-gas projects every step of the way until they are cancelled.

Another U.S Nuke Bites The Dust

October 16, 2015 Harvey Wasserman, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Energy, Nuclear Energy

By Harvey Wasserman for EcoWatch - The chain reactor operator Entergy has announced it will close the Pilgrim nuke south of Boston. The shut-down will bring U.S. reactor fleet to 98, though numerous other reactors are likely to face abandonment in the coming months. But Entergy says it may not take Pilgrim down until June 1, 2019—nearly four years away. Entergy is also poised to shut the FitzPatrick reactor in New York. It promises an announcement by the end of this month. Entergy also owns Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3 some 40 miles north of Manhattan. Unit 2’s operating license has long since lapsed. Unit 3’s will expire in December.

UK ‘Fracking Village’ Gets Green Light To Go 100% Solar

October 5, 2015 Tlemey Smith, www.tcktcktck.org Resist! Energy

By Tlemey Smith for GCCA - The UK’s clean energy sector got a boost today, as Repower Balcombe, the local energy cooperative born of the 2013 fracking protests, was given the go ahead with its proposed 5MW solar park in West Sussex. The group has already installed over 100 solar panels on its village schools, and nearly 70 more on a local farm, but today’s planning committee is a significant step for the project. With over 18,500 panels, it would surpass the co-op’s aim of powering every home in Balcombe with renewables, and supply the nearby village of West Hoathly with its surplus clean energy.

Building A Solar Dream In A Tar Sands Nightmare

September 24, 2015 Melina Laboucan-Massimo, www.greenpeace.org Create! Canada, Energy, First Nation, Fracking, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands

By Melina Laboucan-Massimo in Green Peace - After dealing with three decades of intensive oil, gas, logging, fracking and tar sands exploitation in our homeland, my community of Little Buffalo decided to forge a new future and become powered by the sun. First Nation communities have been on the front lines of resource extraction for far too long and we have paid the price for humanity’s addiction to oil, but we have hope for a way out of the crisis we are currently facing in Alberta and around the world. In a community of 500 in northern Alberta, this 20.8 kW solar installation will power the First Nation’s health center, and put additional energy back to the grid. Our community used to be self-sufficient and was able to live off the land. Now the community deals with contaminated water, polluted air and a compromised landscape. In 2011, the community had to deal with one of the largest oil spills in Alberta’s history.

Fracking’s Good Samaritans

September 16, 2015 Laurel Peltier, www.baltimorefishbowl.com Organize! Energy, Environment, Fracking

By Laurel Peltier in Baltimore Fishbowl - When it comes to fracking, Maryland is unique. Along with New York and a few countries, no fracking wells have been drilled in western Maryland. Though our state’s natural gas lies west below Garrett and Alleghany counties, deciding to frack or not will most likely be decided in our General Assembly. All Marylanders will play a role in choosing whether to frack or not. There’s time to get up-to-speed on fracking’s realities since Maryland’ General Assembly legislated a fracking moratorium until October 1, 2017. Fracking’s a fairly complicated topic. Here at Baltimore Fishbowl we plan to publish stories that break fracking down into bite-sized chunks, and lay out key issues that don’t often pop up in the media. Since our sister states, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are roughly one decade into fracking, we’re starting at the end.

3 FANG Activists Locked To Spectra Equipment In Rhode Island

September 15, 2015 Resist! Energy, Environment

Activists opposed to methane gas expansion locked themselves to construction equipment being used to prepare an area in Burrillville for a gas pipeline project early Monday morning. “I expect them to be arrested at some point today,” said Sherrie Andre, who sent out a press release and photos of the action on behalf of FANG, or Fighting Against Natural Gas. “If not, they are pretty determined to stay there as long as their bodies can hold out.” Three fire trucks and local police are on the scene, said Andre, but she did not know if the three activists had been arrested or were still attached to the earth-moving equipment. “Matt Smith of New Jersey, Nick Katkevich of Rhode Island, and Keith Clougherty of Massachusetts locked down with fortified PVC pipes to disrupt construction for the day at the compressor station which Spectra is hoping to double in capacity as part of the AIM project,” according to the press release.

Hungering For Climate Justice

September 14, 2015 Climate Howard, www.climatehoward.wordpress.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy

By Climate Howard - All along, fasters with Beyond Extreme Energy have had two questions: How will this feel, and how will I pass the time? Of course, that’s in addition to the broader concern about how to ensure their actions help bring change. From the day after Labor Day until Sept. 25 — 18 days — a dozen people are on a water-only fast on the sidewalk in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, on First Street NE in Washington, just down the street from Union Station. Some have stayed overnight on the sidewalk as well, although most head for Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ to sleep. Other people are fasting for a shorter time, at FERC or in their communities.

12 People Fasting For 18 Days Demanding FERC Issue #NoNewPermits

September 12, 2015 Ted Glick, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Energy, FERC, Oil & Gas

By Ted Glick in EcoWatch - Twelve members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), ages 19 to 72—from California, Virginia, DC, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Nebraska, Michigan and North Carolina—are in the beginning days of a planned 18-day, water-only “Fast for No New Permits” for fossil fuel infrastructure in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a virtual rubber-stamp agency for the fracked gas industry. Each weekday until Sept. 25 we will be on the sidewalk in front of FERC from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., leafletting FERC employees—over a thousand of them—as they arrive for or leave from work. We’re also passing out leaflets to thousands of others who work or live in the area who walk by.

WTO Ruling Against India’s Solar Push Threatens Clean Energy

September 1, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, India, World Trade Organization

By Nadia Prupis in Common Dreams - The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday ruled against India over its national solar energy program in a case brought by the U.S. government, sparking outrage from labor and environmental advocates. As power demands grow in India, the country's government put forth a plan to create 100,000 megawatts of energy from solar cells and modules, and included incentives to domestic manufacturers to use locally-developed equipment. According to Indian news outlets, the WTO ruled that India had discriminated against American manufacturers by providing such incentives, which violates global trade rules, and struck down those policies—siding with the U.S. government in a case that the Sierra Club said demonstrates the environmentally and economically destructive power of pro-corporate deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

TransCanada Opts To ‘Drill First, Ask Later’

August 29, 2015 Staff, www.treealerts.org Resist! Canada, Energy, TransCanada

The Tree reports - TransCanada is taking New Brunswickers by surprise this week, drilling boreholes in the Bay of Fundy for a pipeline project that hasn’t been approved yet. The energy giant is overseeing the Energy East project, a proposed cross-country pipeline that would pump bitumen from Canada’s tar sands all the way to eastern seaports. The National Energy Board, Canada’s regulatory body on energy projects, hasn’t granted TransCanada approval to build the pipeline yet, Canadian media outlet Ricochet received confirmation Thursday that the company will begin conducting tests near the proposed export terminal site.Meme Bay of Fundy According to a report published by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick last week, construction related to the Energy East pipeline would stress endangered whales and sea life in the Bay of Fundy

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