Energy

Victory: Kinder Morgan Stops Drilling, Removes Equipment

November 29, 2014 Tiffany Crawford, www.vancouversun.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Protests

Kinder Morgan has stopped drilling on Burnaby Mountain and began moving out its equipment Friday, according to a company spokeswoman. An application by Kinder Morgan to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from two drilling sites for its proposed oil pipeline was rejected by a B.C. Supreme Court judge on Thursday. It means the site must be cleared of excavation work by Dec. 1., the date when the injunction is set to expire. Ali Hounsell, a spokeswoman for the Trans Mountain expansion project, said crews completed work Thursday at one of the borehole sites but the second one — set further into the woods — cannot be finished.

All Charges Thrown Out Against Kinder-Morgan Pipeline Protesters

November 28, 2014 Jenny Uechi, www.vancouverobserver.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Law

SFU molecular biology chair Lynne Quarmby beamed widely as Justice Austin Cullen announced at the B.C. Supreme Court that Kinder Morgan's request to extend the injunction date would be rejected, and said all charges of civil contempt for protesters arrested so far on Burnaby Mountain would be thrown out. "It's fantastic!" Quarmby said, moments after the judge announced his decision. "It's a fabulous victory." Drivers in cars passing by the court house honked their horns, apparently recognizing the professor, who was arrested last week protesting Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion. Justice Cullen's ruling did, however, allow Kinder Morgan to substitute its current injunction zone, which was not accurate, with the correct one.

Protesting Pipeline Was My Obligation As Scientist, Citizen, Parent

November 27, 2014 Alejandro Frid, www.vancouverobserver.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Protest

Consistent with these tactics, Harper tasked the National Energy Board (NEB) with examining whether building new pipelines that enable increased exploitation of bitumen from the Alberta tar sands is in the best interest of Canadians. Proposed infrastructure under current NEB “scrutiny” include the Trans Mountain pipeline by Houston-based Kinder Morgan, which would increase the capacity to transport tar sands bitumen to an export port in Vancouver, and the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would transport bitumen to the export port of Kitimat. The NEB has approved Northern Gateway and appears to be well on its way to doing the same for Trans Mountain.

Anti-Fracking Warriors Steingraber And Boland Released From Jail

November 26, 2014 Stefanie Spear, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil & Gas

Steingraber and Boland are among the first wave arrests as part of a sustained, ongoing, non-violent civil disobedience campaign against the storage of fracked gas along the shores of Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people. There have been 73 arrests so far. Calling themselves “We Are Seneca Lake,” those risking arrest—and their supporters—wear blue during blockades. Sandra Steingraber: "We can’t find the path to victory; we have to CREATE it. That’s going to require a lot of work from all of us over a sustained period of time. What Colleen and I just did is only a tiny part of the struggle. So, please don’t thank us. Tell us what YOU are going to do."

Greece: Brutal Police Repression Of Mine Protest

November 26, 2014 Stavroula Poulimeni, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Greece, Mining

Once more a demonstration against Eldorado Gold’s Skouries mine in Halkidiki was met with tons of teargas by the riot police. More than 1.500 demonstrators of all ages marched to the location where Eldorado’s subsidiary, Hellas Gold, is developing a huge open-pit gold and copper mine right in the middle of what used to be a pristine forest. Approximately 180 hectares of forest have so far been cleared in order to make way for the mine, a processing plant and two monstrous tailings dams. For the past three years, the local people and the broader solidarity movement resisting the mine have faced extreme repression and penalization of their struggle.

Next week: Direct Actions to Save Cove Point

November 26, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Blockades, Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Gas

The next two weeks are critical in the struggle to stop construction of a liquefied fracked-gas export terminal in Cove Point, MD that threatens nearby homes, the Chesapeake Bay and the climate crisis. We need you to join the emergency mobilization! Join the community in saving their homes and preventing a huge threat to the climate crisis. Overnight accommodations in a church will be available for those who need it. The FERC issued a permit this year for the construction of a 160 foot pier to bring in large pieces of equipment for the gas export terminal, but they must finish it by December 16 or they will have to wait until late March to begin construction again. A delay in construction is critical because this project's permit is being challenged for failure to conduct an environmental impact study and a quantitative risk assessment. This is the first gas export terminal being built in a residential area, which sets a dangerous precedent.

Lawsuit: Stop Big Coal’s Misuse Of Public Lands

November 26, 2014 Friends of the Earth, www.foe.org Organize! Coal, Energy, Environment, Land, Law

Friends of the Earth and the Western Organization of Resource Councils, with the support of philanthropist Paul G. Allen, today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to require the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for the federal coal leasing program. There has not been a comprehensive environmental review of the federal coal leasing program since 1979. Since that time, scientific evidence has established that greenhouse gases produced by coal mining and combustion endanger the public health and welfare.

Cree March To Ban Uranium Exploration

November 25, 2014 Marian Scott, www.montrealgazette.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, First Nations, Mining

Seven young members of the James Bay Cree Nation began an 800-kilometre trek from Mistissini to Montreal Sunday to demand a ban on uranium development in northern Quebec. “We want a uranium-free Eeyou Istchee (Cree territory), ” said Youth Grand Chief Joshua Iserhoff, 36, who set out with six others at 11 a.m. in minus-2-degree weather. They plan to arrive in Montreal on Dec. 15, the final day of hearings on uranium development by the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE). The march underlines the Crees’ opposition to uranium exploration and mining, which they say would encroach on traplines, poison the environment and threaten their traditional way of life.

The People Behind Kinder Morgan Protest

November 24, 2014 Tiffany Crawford, www.vancouversun.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Protest

Quarmby, a science professor at Simon Fraser University and chairwoman of SFU’s molecular biology and biochemistry department, was arrested on Friday. She is named as a defendant in a Kinder Morgan lawsuit and has been the public face leading the opposition to the pipeline in Burnaby. Quarmby has been quoted as saying that the National Energy Board process “is a sham.” She argues the process does not allow any consideration of climate change at a time that climate change is the biggest problem facing society. A mother and an environmentalist, Quarmby’s concerns lie with the environment and protecting it for future generations.

Human Rights Assessment Of Unconventional Gas

November 24, 2014 Extreme Energy Initiative, www.extremeenergy.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Human Rights, Law, United Nations

A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2011 argues that the environmental damage caused by hydraulic fracturing for natural gas poses ‘a new threat to human rights’. This report concurs and calls attention to the most directly applicable rights, both substantive and procedural, implicated by fracking operations, including the rights to life and security of person, to water and health, to respect for home and private life and to public participation in the decision making processes concerning environmental matters, as well as the human rights dimensions of climate change and the rights of future generations.

Lawyer Condemns Arrests Of Burnaby Mountain Protesters

November 24, 2014 Charlie Smith, www.straight.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Law

A Vancouver civil rights lawyer says it's "dangerously wrong" that protesters on Burnaby Mountain are being arrested while the courts are still evaluating the legality of a U.S.-owned energy company's actions. "There is the uncontroversial right of the citizens to protest, which is one of the key planks of a democracy," Gail Davidson told theGeorgia Straight by phone. "And the right of Kinder Morgan hasn't been determined." Davidson said that she thinks that the Kinder Morgan subsidiary, Trans Mountain Pipeline, is, in effect, "defying the court process" by conducting geotechnical survey work on Burnaby Mountain while the issue is before the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Boston: Drop The Frame Up Charges Against Union Leader

November 24, 2014 Boston School Bus Union, www.bostonschoolbus5.org Organize! Energy, Environment, Labor Unions, Oil & Gas

On July 3, 2014, four plain clothes BPD detectives paid two visits to brother Kirschbaum’s home while he was at the Boston Teachers Union in contract negotiations with Veolia Transportation, Inc. Lieutenant Detective Thomas Hopkins served Steve’s daughter with his Summons charging him with Assault and Battery with a dangerous Weapon, Trespass, Breaking and Entering during the Daytime to Commit a Felony, and Malicious Destruction of Property. These false, defamatory, and outrageous charges are identified as “offenses” alleged to have occurred on June 30that the Solidarity Day rallies and march. On June 30th Solidarity Day nearly 500 USW 8751 Boston School Bus drivers and supporters took the struggle against Veolia/City union busting to the streets surrounding the Freeport bus yard and Veolia Corporate Headquarters.

Sky Truth: Bird’s Eye View Of Human’s Eco-Impact

November 22, 2014 Skytruth, www.skytruth.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

SkyTruth is a nonprofit organization using remote sensing and digital mapping to create stunning images that expose the landscape disruption and habitat degradation caused by mining, oil and gas drilling, deforestation, fishing and other human activities. Our vision is a world where all people can see and understand the environmental consequences of human activity everywhere on Earth, and are motivated to take action to protect it. Our mission is to motivate and empower new constituencies for environmental protection through illuminating the issues that impact our planet.

Burnaby Mtn: Inspiring Protest Against Pipeline Grows

November 22, 2014 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

Ongoing protests in British Columbia to stop a tar sands pipeline project by fossil fuel giant Kinder Morgan escalated on Thursday night after 26 protesters were violently arrested. Those arrested also included protesters who refused to comply with an injunction issued earlier in the week ordering them to move from their encampment on the mountain. In response, Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan promised that he was ready to fight a "war" in the courts with the federal government. "This is going to be a war, and it’s going to be one that carries on for a number of years,” Corrigan told the Province.

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