Energy

Tar Sands Flow Through KXL Clone

December 12, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Tar Sands

In his December 8 “Colbert Report” appearance, President Barack Obama gave his strongest signal yet that he may reject a presidential permit authorizing the Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma northern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Yet just a week earlier, and little noticed by comparison, the pipeline giant Enbridge made an announcement that could take the sails out ofsome of the excitement displayed by Obama's “Colbert Report” remarks on Keystone XL North. That is, Enbridge's “Keystone XLClone” is now officially open for business.

We Are Seneca Lake Blockade Going Strong

December 11, 2014 Zoe Loftus-Farren, www.earthisland.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Seneca Lake

For six weeks, We Are Seneca Lake campaigners have braved freezing weather in western New York to block expansion of a methane storage project adjacent to Seneca Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes. Campaigners believe the storage project threatens to contaminate Seneca Lake, which provides drinking water to 100,000 people in upstate New York. With 92 arrests for trespassing while blocking the gates to the storage facility, the campaign seems to be picking up steam. The We Are Seneca Lake movement took shape on October 23 when protesters blocked the gates to Texas-based energy company Crestwood Midstream’s storage facility north of Watkins Glen, NY. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized Crestwood to begin expansion of its methane storage facility beginning on October 24.

Banks Fear Risk Of Investment In Fossil Fuels

December 10, 2014 Kieran Cooke, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuel

In a move that’s likely to cause consternation in some of the world’s most powerful corporate boardrooms, the Bank of England has disclosed that it is launching an inquiry into the risks fossil fuel companies pose to overall financial stability. Mark Carney, governor of the UK’s central bank, has written to British Members of Parliament telling them that his officials have been discussing whether or not coal, oil and gas reserves held by the fossil fuel industry are, in fact, unburnable. “In light of these discussions, we will be deepening and widening our inquiry into the topic,” Carney says. The burning of fossil fuels releases hundreds of thousands of tons of climate-changing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Activists Protest Nevada Public Land Auctions For Fracking

December 10, 2014 John M. Glionna, www.latimes.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Indigenous Rights

A coalition of activists on Tuesday protested outside the office of the federal Bureau of Land Management in Reno to decry an auction of huge tracts of public land for private oil and gas exploration that they claim damages the environment and guzzles water in a time of drought. Wearing blue and carrying empty jugs to signify the loss of water, protesters said that auctioning leases on 189,000 acres of public lands in the state’s eastern reaches had angered Nevadans of all social stripes and politics to speak out against fracking, which they say threatens public health, wildlife and quality of life.

FBI Charges President Of Company For West Virginia Chemical Spill

December 10, 2014 Joanna Rothkopf, www.salon.com Educate! Energy, Environment, EPA, FBI, Law

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested Gary Southern, former president of the company responsible for contaminating the drinking water of 300,000 West Virginians earlier this year, on criminal fraud charges. According to a complaint unsealed on Monday, Southern was charged with bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud and lying under oath in hearings following the spill. This January, up to 300,000 people were left without tap water after 10,000 gallons of a coal-cleaning chemical began leaking into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia, just upstream of the largest water treatment plant in the state. The leak sprung at a storage tank run by Southern’s former company, Freedom Industries, which manufactures chemicals for coal and steel production.

Divestment Campaign Aims To Bleed Dry The Fossil Fuel Industry

December 9, 2014 Leehi Yona and Diego Arguedas Ortiz, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Peru

Even as the presence of major oil and gas corporations is nearly ubiquitous at the U.N. climate talks in the Peruvian capital known as COP20, fossil fuel divestment campaigns have gained ground in various countries and are moving to counter the influence of the “dirty energy” lobby here. As the COP20 enters its second and final week, delegates from 195 countries are still trying to address the urgency of climate change by reaching an international agreement to decelerate global warming. However, activists are worried that the influence of fossil fuel companies within COP20 might slow down an already sluggish process.

Climate Neutrality – The Lifeboat Launched By Lima

December 9, 2014 Diego Arguedas Ortiz, www.ipsnews.net Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Peru

Packed into stifling meeting rooms in the Peruvian capital, delegates from 195 countries are trying to find a path that would make it possible for the planet to reach climate neutrality in the second half of this century – the only way to avoid irreversible damage, scientists warn. Climate neutrality is defined as no net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, achieved by minimising emissions as much as possible, so an equivalent amount is sequestered or offset. The term climate neutral, rather than carbon neutral, is used to reflect the fact that it is not just carbon dioxide (CO2) that is causing climate change but other greenhouse gases as well.

Until The Pipeline Is No More

December 9, 2014 Kevin Woster, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Resistance

A small group of Native Americans opposing the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline continue to occupy a protest camp northwest of Winner. A handful of protesters have been at the Spirit Camp every day since March, although the camp population increases for events and gatherings. The camp is on tribal land along the route of the proposed pipeline, near the Rosebud Reservation. Campers have persevered through blizzards, heat waves and rain storms, as well as what they call the theft of large bales from the camp wind breaks. But camp spokesman Gary Dorr says they won’t leave.

Learning The Jails

December 9, 2014 Faith Meckley, www.viridorari.blogspot.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment, Jail, Protest, Seneca Lake

I've never had much experience with jails. I was briefly introduced to a holding cell in Washington D.C.'s Anacostia police station in March of this year after refusing to move from the White House sidewalk while protesting the KXL Pipeline. I stood in there for ten minutes with five other female college students before I was processed and released. However, I now find myself quickly becoming familiarized with the procedures and expectations of Schuyler, Chemung, and Yates County Jails as the We Are Seneca Lake civil disobedience campaign continues into December.Schuyler County does not house women. Schuyler also does not constantly heat the jail, and it often gets cold. It is important to bring in spare clothing for inmates within 24 hours of their incarceration so they can stay warm.

‘Get The FF Out’: Campaigners Reject Fossil Fuel Influence

December 9, 2014 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

Fossil fuel industry lobbyists have no place at a climate conference, charged activists who on Monday shut down a "greenwashed" fossil fuel industry panel at the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru. Seizing on the event as an example of the corporate influence that has pervaded COP20 and all previous climate negotiations, protesters donned t-shirts that read"#GetTheFFout" and crowded the small event space. Activists from indigenous communities in Colombia, Peru, Canada and other communities affected by fossil fuel development spoke about the environmental and human rights violations frequently perpetrated by fossil fuel companies.

Victory: Kinder Morgan Drops MA Pipeline Due To Protest

December 8, 2014 Jay Fitzgerald, www.bostonglobe.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

Stung by intense local opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline winding through western and central Massachusetts, a Houston energy company said Friday that it will pursue an alternative route that bypasses many Massachusetts communities by veering north and shooting across southern New Hampshire. Kinder Morgan Inc. said much of the alternative path would follow existing rights-of-way along utility lines in the two states, meaning it would cross fewer residential properties and undeveloped lands. Kinder Morgan plans to file the new route on Monday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has final say on gas pipelines in New England.

Corporation With Long History Of Abuse Mining Tar Sands

December 8, 2014 Rachel Stoeve, www.truth-out.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Law, Tar Sands, Wars and Militarism

The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline has launched Canadian tar sands into mainstream American discourse, but few people seem to know that a tar sands mine is now being constructed in the United States. The project is being managed by former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. KBR is not without its own controversies. In March 2008, The Boston Globe reportedthat the company "avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies" based in the Cayman Islands. When it comes to environmental and health matters, of most concern is KBR's alleged use of "burn pits" to improperly dispose of waste in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How Kinder-Morgan Pipeline Was Defeated

December 6, 2014 Maryam Adrangi, www.occupy.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, First Nations, Oil & Gas

For years, residents and neighbors of the British Columbia city of Burnaby have been ringing alarm bells about Kinder Morgan’s intention to put a multi-billion dollar pipeline project through the region. Local First Nations and many city councils were vocally opposed to the pipelines and the associated infrastructure of terminals and tankers. As surveyors for Kinder Morgan have been researching the proposed pipeline area around Burnaby Mountain by drilling boreholes, volunteer caretakers have maintained an active presence on the mountain since September. But it was a $5.6 million lawsuit from Kinder Morgan, filed on Oct. 30 against five named defendants, that sparked a massive community response resulting in over 100 arrests of Indigenous elders, community members and youth.

Lawsuit Threatened To Stop Fracking Off California Coast

December 6, 2014 Rory Carroll, www.reuters.com Organize! Energy, Environment

An environmental group threatened on Thursday to sue the federal government unless it halts offshore fracking in California immediately, the latest legal challenge levied against the controversial oil extraction technique. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department, saying it violated three federal laws by allowing fracking in California's Santa Barbara Channel without evaluating its polluting effects on coastal communities or marine wildlife such as blue whales and otters. Oil companies have fracked at least 21 times in federal waters off the California coast with no analysis of environmental risks and no determination of whether it violates a state coastal management program, the group said.

Charges Dropped For 64 Arrested At Governor’s Office Sit-In

December 6, 2014 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Vermont

Vermont State Police today announced that all charges have been dropped against the 64 Vermonters who occupied Governor Peter Shumlin's office on October 27, to demand an end to the fracked gas pipeline and a ban on fossil fuel infrastructure. The Governor was the focus of the sit-in due to his continued support of the pipeline, which would transport dirty, climate-disrupting fracked gas from Alberta Canada through Addison County, underneath Lake Champlain to the International Paper mill in Ticonderoga, Ny., and eventually to Rutland. The pipeline, opposed by thousands of people across the state, would continue Vermont's reliance on greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels that cause climate change.

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