Energy

Rape Of Appalachia: Admin Fails To Stop MTR

December 6, 2014 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Mining

The process of mountaintop removal mining has made accessing coal seams easier and less labor intensive. It’s also blighted the Appalachian landscape of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia where it’s taking place, destroying 10 percent of the land in central Appalachia, ravaging forests, burying more than 2,000 miles of streams in debris and polluting water supplies with coal ash and chemicals. And it’s helped decimate employment in the coal industry, dealing another blow to one of the country’s poorest regions. It’s great for Big Coal, not so great for ordinary citizens. The report stressed the urgent need for federal action in light of the failure of state agencies to adequately oversee the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. It pointed to the revelation that Fraser Creek Mining in Kentucky appears to have violated the Clean Water Act more than 28,000 times. . .

Corporate Lawyer & Farm-Hand Continue Week Of Protest

December 6, 2014 Front Line Action, www.frontlineaction.org Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment, Protest

Sustained protest against Whitehaven Coal’s controversial Maules Creek mine in the Leard State Forest continues this morning, as two men chained themselves to a concrete barrel at Whitehaven Coal’s Gunnedah coal handling and preparation plant. 31 year old Maules Creek farm-hand Adam Ryan and 37 year old, Sydney based father and corporate lawyer, Matthew Drake-Brockman have taken action to protest against what Drake-Brockman describes as the ‘lax approval processes’ that allowed the scandal-plagued mine to go ahead. Mr Ryan, born in nearby Wee Waa, cited concerns about mining impacts on water and the subsequent effect on the local agricultural industry, saying “this mine is destroying the community that I have known my whole life.

Environmental Groups To Intervene In Defense Of Fracking Ban

December 5, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Law

Just days after attorneys representing Denton, Texas submitted their initial responses to two legal complaints filed against Denton — the first Texas city ever to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) — environmental groupshave filed an intervention petition. That is, a formal request to enter the two lawsuits filed against the city after its citizens voted to ban fracking on election day. Denton Drilling Awareness Groupand Earthworks are leading the intervention charge, represented by attorneys from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) andEarthjustice. The drilling awareness group runs the Frack Free Denton campaign. Those groups have joined up with attorneys representing Denton to fight lawsuits filed against the city by both the Texas Oil and Gas Association and theTexas General Land Commission.

Why We Need A “No Compromise” Climate Movement

December 4, 2014 Scott Parkin, www.counterpunch.org Strategize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Law, Politics

Fast forward to 2014, the crisis surrounding the fossil fuel industry’s exploitation and destruction of the earth has only worsened. According to climate scientists, April, 2014 became the first month that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million further pushing us towards a climate catastrophe that includes floods, droughts, mega-storms and greater social and economic inequity. Another recent report states that the earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past forty years due to unsustainable killing for food practices and habitat destruction. Studies have also found that people living near mountaintop removal mine sites are twice more than likely to suffer from cancer than people from other parts of Appalachia. Furthermore, mountaintop removal has been linked to high rates of birth defects.

PR Firm Fired By TransCanadaAfter Leaked Document

December 4, 2014 Ian Austen, www.nytimes.com Educate! Canada, Energy, Environment, Keystone XL, Media

TransCanada has cut ties with the American public relations firm Edelman, amid controversy over a proposed communications strategy for a major pipeline project. The move, which was announced on Wednesday, follows the leak of documents about Edelman’s proposed strategy, which advocated vigorous attacks on opponents of one of TransCanada’s oil sands pipelines. In the documents that were obtained by Greenpeace, Edelman proposed that the pipeline company should investigate opponents of Energy East, a plan to convert a natural gas pipeline to Eastern Canada to carry oil sands production and to extend it to a new tanker port in Quebec. The public relations firm further advised the company, which is also behind theKeystone XL project in the United States, to use front groups, relying on third-party surrogates to disseminate unflattering findings.

Boulder Ups The ‘Anti’ In The Fracking Game

December 4, 2014 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Colorado, Energy, Environment, Fracking

Boulder County, one of the first places in Colorado to take a stand against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, back in early 2012, recently extended its temporary ban on the controversial process until July 2018. A handful of towns in the state, including the Boulder County cities of Longmont and Lafayette, have temporarily or permanently banned fracking in recent years. They were promptly sued by either the energy industry, state regulators, or both. But so far, the Boulder County government has avoided a lawsuit. But does the recent decision now mean a legal battle over local control to restrict oil and gas activity in the state is coming Boulder County's way? Sam Schabacker, Mountain West region director at the environmental group Food and Water Watch, said a lawsuit is "entirely possible" and noted that the state's oil and gas industry "is quite litigious."

Jimmy Goes To Jail For Justice At Seneca Lake

December 4, 2014 Jimmy Betts, www.facebook.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment, Seneca Lake

The following is a positive action that I am voluntarily undertaking. Just because “jail” is used, please try to recondition your immediate aversion to this word. This is a time to quell your fears and see that there is a method and organized strategy for that which I choose to do and those with whom I work with directly. There are appropriate times to go to jail. This is one of those times, and for many people who know what is at stake, there will be specific times in the future where this type of non-violent action will be needed. It is a privilege to have a system, flawed as it is, that allows one to protest, advocate, and civilly disobey without being publicly executed. At this time, in spite of my own financial hardships, it is an honour and privilege to have the support and option for monetary support for legal fees from a coalition of phenomenal local organizers that comprise We Are Seneca Lake (WASL).

8 Million Americans Tell EPA To Take Climate Action

December 3, 2014 Frances Beinecke , www.ecowatch.com Organize! California, Energy, Environment, EPA

In the past few months, Detroit got flooded by unusually heavy rains. Washington State wrapped up one of its most destructive fires seasons on record. And California remains in the grip of extreme drought, with major reservoirs holding just 43 percent of normal levels. Joe Muzzi, a California farmer, said, “If it doesn’t rain this winter we are out of business.” Already 17,100 jobs have been lost due to the drought. Climate change is hurting American communities right now. It will take an even greater toll on future generations if we don’t confront it. Fortunately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action.

Pipeline Opponents Occupy Chamber of Commerce Meeting

December 3, 2014 Marcia Gagliardi, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

Four opponents of the proposed Kinder Morgan Tennessee Natural Gas pipeline crashed a closed Franklin County Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday to deliver an anti pipeline message days after the chamber voted to accept Texas corporation Kinder Morgan in to its membership. Chamber officials told the opponents to leave the meeting. “If you want us to leave,” Nestel said, “call the police and have them arrest us.” Security officials in the room did not move to eject them. Some twenty other pipeline opponents remained outside vigiling on the sidewalk. “Kinder Morgan skews the truth about energy in the Northeast, about the proposed pipeline, about its use, about its potential impact on landowners, and about where the fracked gas it would transport will go,” Nestel said. “We must stop the pipeline."

New Legal Action For Federal Ban Of Dangerous Oil Tank Rail Cars

December 3, 2014 Earth Justice, www.earthjustice.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Oil & Gas

Today, Earthjustice on behalf of Sierra Club and ForestEthics challenged the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) denial in November of the groups’ petition for an immediate ban on the most hazardous DOT-111 rail tank cars carrying explosive Bakken crude oil. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 2012 called for an immediate ban on using these tank cars to ship crude oil because they are prone to puncture, spills, and fires in train accidents. Two in three tank cars used to transport crude oil in the US are DOT-111s, yet the DOT has taken no action beyond issuing a safety advisory urging shippers to use the safest tank cars in their fleets to the extent feasible.

Landowners Expose Vermont Gas’ False Claims

December 2, 2014 Melanie Peyser, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Vermont

The ten landowners who have been working with Governor Shumlin to address Vermont Gas System's predatory practices in securing easements and rights-of-way, were astonished to learn through a VGS press release today that VGS claimed to have opened direct dialogue with them. The Governor’s office sent a letter to VGS a few days ago requesting that the company institute a pause or moratorium on eminent domain filings and interaction between VGS and landowners to provide the space needed to rebuild trust between landowners and the state and thereafter with VGS. In response, the company chose to issue a press release claiming the opening of direct dialogue. “Once again VGS is using a negotiating platform as some twisted press advantage instead of dealing forthrightly with the issue,” said Maren Vasatka of Monkton.

Why We Might Just Win Fight Against Tar Sands

November 29, 2014 Mike Hudema, www.huffingtonpost.ca Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Protests, Social Change, Tar Sands

In the fight against the tar sands there are good weeks and bad weeks and then there are weeks like this one where you can't help but feel that we might just win. This week on both sides of the country tar sands pipeline pushers got a huge wake-up call. On the west coast, the pictures and stories from Burnaby Mountain have been continuously inspiring as day after day, row after row of people ranging in age from 11 to 87 have climbed the mountain to risk arrest and say no to Kinder Morgan's tar sands pipeline plans and yes to a green, just, and renewable energy future.

Steven Harper’s Legacy, Anti-Pipeline Movement Across Canada

November 29, 2014 Chantal Hébert , www.thestar.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

Two years ago student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois rose to fame by becoming the face of Quebec’s so-called Maple Spring. He turned the episode that spelled the beginning of the end of premier Jean Charest’s tenure into a book titledTenir tête. Last week, the book won the Governor General’s 2014 French-language non-fiction prize. On Sunday, Nadeau-Dubois revealed that he was giving his $25,000 prize to a citizens’ coalition devoted to blocking TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline. He used the prime time television platform of the Radio-Canada talk show Tout le monde en parle to make his announcement. He said he hoped to lead by example. Since then donations to the anti-pipeline cause have been pouring in. This is only one small measure of how quickly Central Canada’s public opinion is gelling against the plan to link the Alberta oilfields to the refineries of eastern Canada.

Four Burnaby Mountain Caretakers Locked To Supreme Court

November 29, 2014 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment

Early this morning four Burnaby Mountain Caretakers have locked themselves to the Supreme Court entrance in Vancouver. The action was taken to draw attention to the role of the courts in ongoing colonial occupation of Indigenous territory on Burnaby Mountain and across the country. In granting Kinder Morgan’s request for an injunction and enforcement order on November 14th, the courts are once again ignoring aboriginal rights and title and breaching their constitutional duty to obtain consent on unceded Coast Salish territory. These decisions by the BC Supreme Court continually dispossess indigenous people of the territories they have occupied and governed for thousands of years. Squamish elder Sut-lut was arrested last Thursday while protecting a traditional totem pole.

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