Energy

Spectra Energy’s Office In Waltham, MA Shut Down

December 18, 2014 Staff, www.earthfirstjournal.org http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/ Resist! Blockade, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Pipelines

One person climbed and hung off of a 24 foot tall tripod and others blocked office entrances while a band played music and balloon banners were released. Two arrests were made. The action was part of the week of "Respect and Resistance" to stop Spectra's proposed expansion of a major fracked-gas pipeline through the Northeast. The New England group Fighting Against Natural Gas has conducted two rousing actions in the last two days against greenwashing, fracking, and energy infrastructure. On Wednesday morning a group of New Englanders were arrested for occupying and shutting down the offices of Spectra Energy to protest the company’s plans to expand a network of fracked gas pipelines in the region. The group deployed multiple banners demanding funders divest from Spectra Energy due to the impacts of the company’s projects to local communities and the climate, with one of them hanging from a 24 foot tripod and refusing to leave.

Dissecting Denton: How A Texas City Banned Fracking

December 18, 2014 Jim Malewitz, www.texastribune.org Organize! Denton, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

McMullen, who at that time had just moved into a house about 1,500 feet away from the proposed site, joined others in raising concerns about bringing the gas industry and hydraulic fracturing — widely known as fracking — so close to where kids play. Fracking, which involves blasting apart underground rock with millions of gallons of chemical-laced water to free up oil and gas, “is a brutal, brutal process for people living around it,” McMullen says. Their efforts in city hall failed. If McMullen felt invisible five years ago, she doesn’t anymore. Today, state lawmakers, the oil and gas industry and national environmental groups have become acutely aware of Denton, home to two universities, 277 gas wells and now, thanks to a rag-tag group of local activists, Texas’ first ban on fracking.

Fracking Movement Wins As NY Bans Fracking

December 18, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking

In a major victory for people who have been working to stop hydraulic fracturing for gas, known as fracking, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York announced a ban on fracking in New York State. This would not have occurred had it not been for the consistent and ongoing educating, organizing and mobilizing by groups like New Yorkers Against Fracking and We Are Seneca Lake, among others. This has been a six year campaign of creative protests, civil resistance, direct action and local communities voting to ban fracking, a power upheld by New York's highest court. One opponent of fracking, Walter Hang, an environmental mapping consultant wrote: "This stupendous victory was won by an unrelenting grassroots citizen campaign powered by amazing press coverage that systematically highlighted the public health and environmental concerns of shale fracking. That effort has won a victory unparalleled in the annals of the American environmental movement."

41 People Arrested Protesting Crestwood Gas Storage

December 17, 2014 We Are Seneca Lake, www.youtube.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Seneca Lake

Protesters have been blocking the Crestwood gas storage facility gates since Thursday, October 23. On Tuesday, December 16th, over 40 people were arrested, the largest number arrested in a single day. Many of them were teachers. The unified We Are Seneca Lake protests started on October 23rd because Friday, October 24th marked the day that major new construction on the gas storage facility was authorized to begin. The ongoing acts of civil disobedience come after the community pursued every possible avenue to stop the project and after being thwarted by an unacceptable process and denial of science. The protests are taking place at the gates of the Crestwood compressor station site on the shore of Seneca Lake, the largest of New York’s Finger Lakes.

Protesters Deliver People’s Restraining Order To Kinder Morgan

December 17, 2014 Rising Tide Portland, www.portlandrisingtide.org Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

A group of activists with Portland Rising Tide interrupted business as usual on Monday afternoon at the Vancouver office of Kinder Morgan to deliver a ‘People’s Restraining Order’ against the company’s plans to expand the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline in British Columbia. A representative from Kinder Morgan’s office tried to prevent protesters from entering the office by blocking the door. He refused to receive the ‘People’s Restraining Order,’ calling the peaceful gathering a major disruption. The proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would transport oil from the Alberta tar sands, and would travel through un-ceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Selilwitulh territories in British Columbia.

Two Arrested Protesting Spectra’s Pipeline Expansion

December 16, 2014 Fighting Against Natural Gas, www.capitalismvsclimate.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Natural Gas, Protest

Police arrested two protesters this morning who chained themselves to a mock ‘bridge to nowhere’ and blocked the driveway to Spectra Energy’s methane gas compressor station in Cromwell. The demonstrators opposed Spectra’s proposed pipeline expansion, which would expand this compressor station, among others. The compressor station, located a quarter-mile from Cromwell Middle School and one-hundred feet away from recreational Watrous Park fields, is a “major source of hazardous air pollutants,” according the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Health impacts from compressor station pollution include kidney and liver damage, lung damage, brain impacts, and leukemia. This action was part of a coordinated “Week of Respect and Resistance” with actions from December 13 – 19 against the pipeline expansion in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

Canadian Court Allows Woman To Sue Over Fracked Water Pollution

December 15, 2014 John Cotter, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Law

Alberta will not appeal a court ruling that says a woman can sue the province over hydraulic fracturing that she alleges has so badly contaminated her well that the water can be set on fire. Jessica Ernst began legal action against Alberta's energy regulator and Calgary-based energy company Encana (TSX:ECA) in 2007, and amended her statement of claim in 2011 to include Alberta Environment. Last month, Chief Justice Neil Wittmann of Court of Queen's Bench dismissed the government's application to strike it from the lawsuit. An Alberta Justice spokeswoman gave no reason for the government's decision not to appeal.

People Protest Oil Trains, Then Tax Dollars Used To Fund It

December 15, 2014 Karrett Renshaw, www.reuters.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Transportation

For the past 18 months, Americans from Albany to Oregon have voiced growing alarm over the rising number of oil-laden freight trains coursing through their cities, a trend they fear is endangering public safety. In at least a handful of places, the public is also helping fund it. States and the federal government have handed out tens of millions in public dollars to rail companies and government agencies to expand crude oil rail transportation across the country, a Reuters analysis has found. The public assistance in states like New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon comes as railroads are posting record profits, and as state and federal authorities press for safety overhauls that the oil and rail industries have opposed, following several explosive derailments.

Cree Youth Walk 850 Km To Protest Uranium Mining In Quebec

December 15, 2014 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

About 20 young Cree people have walked nearly 850 kilometres to Montreal’s South Shore from their village in northern Quebec, protesting against uranium exploration in the province. The youth left Mistissini, Que., northeast of Chibougamau in the James Bay region three weeks ago. On the way, they stopped in Quebec City to share their message. They arrived in Longueuil, just across the bridge from Montreal, Saturday. Their final destination is downtown Montreal, where they will deliver that message to the province’s environmental protection agency, known as the BAPE, when it holds the last of a series of public hearings on uranium exploration tomorrow.

Protests Build And Intensify People’s Views On Issues

December 15, 2014 Jennifer Hadden, www.washingtonpost.com Strategize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Law, Policy

Bill McKibben suggested that the massive People’s Climate March in September had helped cause theUS-China climate announcement of a few weeks ago. He tweeted, “First reaction to US China climate news: We should do more of these big protest-type things, they seem useful.” But did the People’s Climate March actually cause these policy outcomes? Maybe. The truth is that it’s really difficult to assess the causal impact of protests. Many of the same things that drive people out to the streets also influence politicians to take actions in support of the movement’s cause. When the tide of public opinion shifts to support a movement, for example, we can expect to see both more protest and more favorable policy outcomes.

How Big Oil Got Expedited Permits To Frack Public Lands

December 15, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Law

The 1,616-page piece of pork barrel legislation contains a provision — among other controversial measures — to streamline permitting for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on U.S. public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a unit of the U.S. Department of Interior. Buried on page 1,156 of the bill as Section 3021 and subtitled “Bureau of Land Management Permit Processing,” the bill's passage has won praise from both the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and comes on the heels of countries from around the world coming to a preliminary deal at the United Nations climate summit in Lima, Peru, to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

Is This Canadian Bill Designed To Punish Pipeline Blockades?

December 13, 2014 JustinLing, www.nationalpost.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment

A private member’s bill backed by the minister of justice taking aim at industrial thieves could be used to punish environmental protesters, lawyers say. The bill, introduced by Conservative MP Wai Young on Wednesday, would slap harsh penalties on anyone who damages or interferes with “critical infrastructure.” While Bill C-639 was originally intended to beef up fines for anyone caught stealing wire from power facilities, the language in the legislation goes further. It creates a new Criminal Code offence for anyone who damages, destroys, incapacitates, “obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use, enjoyment or operation” of any critical infrastructure. The mandatory minimum prison terms range from two to 10 years and the fines from $500 to 3,000.

What Resolution Copper Wants To Inflict On Apache Sacred Land

December 13, 2014 Indian Country Today Media Network, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Resist! Energy, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

The San Carlos Apache Tribe is battling to save a sacred site that has been federally protected from mining since 1955. That is, until now. Lawmakers have slipped a clause into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would allow for a land swap, giving Resolution Copper Inc. 2,400 acres of copper-containing land in return for 5,300 acres of substandard land scattered throughout southeast Arizona. Problem is, it lies right on a scenic—and did we mention sacred?—recreation area set aside by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who specified that it be protected from mining: Oak Flat, Devil's Canyon, and Apache Leap. It is not only sacred to the San Carlos Apaches and related tribes but also would be subject to a technique called block cave mining.

Oil Pipelines Are So Last Year, Says Wall Street Journal

December 12, 2014 Heather Smith, www.grist.org Organize! Energy, Environment, Journalism, Keystone XL, Media, Oil & Gas

What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2013, Keystone XL looked like a done deal. KXL South (a.k.a. the Gulf Coast Pipeline) was already built and weeks away from being turned on. Now, a year later, that renowned pinko/green publication known as the Wall Street Journal writes that the fight against Keystone XL has been so successful that it’s become the training model for at least 10 other anti-pipeline fights. Seriously. There’s a slideshow and everything. National groups provide access to money and tactical knowledge, while local groups can deliver on-the-ground pipeline opponents, including farmers, ranchers, and tribal leaders.

Kerry’s Speech In Lima Rings Hollow

December 12, 2014 Karen Orenstein, www.foe.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

In response to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks today at the UN climate change conference in Lima, Peru, Karen Orenstein, senior analyst at Friends of the Earth U.S., issued the following statement: We only wish that the U.S. government acted in accordance with the sense of urgency that Secretary Kerry expressed in his speech today at the climate summit in Lima, Peru. The world is tired of hearing rhetorical, empty boasting about U.S. leadership while the glaciers melt, fires rage and people lose their lives to climate change. Yes, the political climate in Washington, DC is indisputably difficult, but that doesn’t excuse President Obama’s advocacy for a non-science-based, voluntary climate agreement internationally, or his decision at home to give fossil fuel polluters access to publicly owned lands.

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