Energy

Video: Activist Hospitalised After Boats Rammed During Peaceful Protest

November 17, 2014 Greenpeace, www.greenpeace.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Greenpeace, Protest, Spain

At stake are two of the Canary Islands (Fuerteventura and Lanzarote), Spanish islands off the coast of Morocco. A company called Repsol has been given a permit to drill there, despite the risks to the ecology and tourist economy. Greenpeace Spain sided with island locals in opposing this drilling, but their warnings about safety and legal issues have so far been ignored by the Spanish government. This morning, activists from the Arctic Sunrise went on small boats to protest the drilling vessel. The Spanish authorities reacted violently as you can see in the video below - deliberately ramming the boats and putting the lives of peaceful activists at risk. The 23 year old Italian who was knocked overboard and had her leg broken, has been taken to a hospital on shore by a navy helicopter, and is in good condition. Another activist was treated on board the Arctic Sunrise for minor cuts.

Chokepoint: How To Stop Oil And Gas Pipelines

November 15, 2014 Franklin López, www.thoughtmaybe.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

For the past four years Submedia has been visiting a camp of the Unist’ot’en of the Wet’suet’en Nation in so-called British Columbia in Canada. The Unist’ot’en continue to fend off intrusions to their land by rapacious oil and gas companies. The threats are large and systemic and involve the very base of life itself. This two-part series of short films document the direct actions that are effective in keeping the threats of oil and gas out. Stopping the corporations physically is paramount, as they’ll stop at nothing. This series follows on from the past series on the same topic by Submedia, Stop The Flows. The Unist’ot’en have built a protection camp to block the Pacific Trails Pipeline or PTP, in so-called British Columbia in Canada. The PTP pipeline would bring natural gas obtained through fracking to the Pacific ocean and would cross through the Unist’ot’en’s traditional territory. This is the third time the Unist’ot’en have called for a convergence in their land. This year’s camp attracted over 150 people who came from as far east as Montreal and as far south as Florida.

Cove Point Resident Arrested Delivering ‘People’s Eviction Notice’

November 14, 2014 John Zangas, www.cetology.org Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Protests

A Cove Point resident was arrested at dawn on Monday, November 10 while trying to deliver a “people’s eviction notice” at Dominion Resources’ construction site at Solomons, Maryland. The construction is connected to Cove Point, a $3.8 billion Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal. It was thethird protest at the site in 10 days. As about fifty fellow protestors picketed in front of the site, Leslie Garcia carried a giant eviction notice across a line of pylons placed by police. “Everything is at stake. I have everything to lose. That’s why I’m protesting. We all have everything to lose,” she said. Garcia has lived 34 years in her home just three houses down from the Cove Point lighthouse, a mile past Dominion’s gated facility. She fears an explosion would leave her and her neighbors no way to evacuate safely. That’s because the only way out of their neighborhood is right past the refinery.

Carbon Capture And Storage–A Bioenergy Myth!

November 14, 2014 Jay Burner, www.climate-connections.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

In 2012, Biofuelwatch published a report titled “Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage: Climate savior or dangerous hype?” We had long been working to reveal and oppose large scale industrial and commercial scale bioenergy in various forms ranging from ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood. We had argued that corn ethanol would drive biodiversity loss, cause food prices to rise and contribute to chronic hunger, while failing to reduce emissions, as it has in fact done. We argued that burning wood as a substitute for coal would create a new driver of deforestation, even as protecting forests and ecosystems was recognized as a “best line of defense” against climate change.

11 Year Old Vows To Silence Against Climate Change

November 13, 2014 Earth Guardians, www.us2.campaign-archive1.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Youth

My name is Itzcuauhtli (Eat-Squat-Lee) and I am 11 years old. I am on a silent strike until world leaders take action on Climate Change. By world leaders I mean you! We have waited too long for the people we call leaders to take action. We now face a crisis that threatens everyone’s future and every living system on the planet. I had to do something so I stopped talking on October 27, 2014. My talking strike for climate action has been harder than I ever thought it would be! My friends and teachers keep asking how long I will keep this silent strike going and how will it make a difference anyway. What I hope, is that in my silence all those who love us will speak out on behalf of our future and the world we are being left with.

Texas Oil Regulator Says It Will Not Honor Town’s Vote To Ban Fracking

November 13, 2014 Emily Atkin, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Texas

On election day, the town of Denton, Texas, voted by a wide margin to ban fracking within the city limits. Two days later, the chairwoman of Texas’ oil and gas regulator said she would not honor the ban. Texas Railroad Commission Chairwoman Christi Craddick told the Dallas Morning News that she would continue giving permits to oil and gas companies seeking to frack in Denton. Craddick asserted she could override the ban because Denton does not have authority over drilling activity in the state. “It’s my job to give permits, not Denton’s,” Craddick said. “We’re going to continue permitting up there because that’s my job.” Fracking — the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals underground to extract oil and gas from shale formations — has a long history in Denton, one of the most heavily-fracked towns in Texas.

Grassroots Activists Say Climate Change Demands System Change

November 12, 2014 Laura Flanders, www.truth-out.org Strategize! Capitalism, Climate Change, Energy, Environment

Cindy Wiesner: We see this as a growing movement around systems change - not climate change - and trying to build the political perspective of our alliances, our networks and our agenda. "Grassroots organizing has kept more industrial carbon out of the atmosphere than any state or federal policy to date in the United States." We're very clear about what we're saying "no" to, but we're also beginning to lift up what we're saying "yes" to. What's very exciting is these paradigm shifts are the actual examples of local living economies from our work here in the US around Just Transition, to what's happening in the Andean region around Buen Vivir to what's happening in Europe around the Great Transition and the Commons movement and deglobalization.

Escalating Actions To Retire Fossil Fuels

November 11, 2014 Staff, www.clearingthefogradio.org Resist! Blockades, BXE, Energy, Environment, Pipelines

This past week, as part of the Beyond Extreme Energy campaign to retire fossil fuels there were daily actions to shut down the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission every morning and actions at other locations in the afternoon. These took place simultaneously with direct action at two FERC-approved gas infrastructure projects in Seneca Lake, NY and Cove Point, MD. And the week of actions at FERC followed the conclusion of an 8 month 3,000 mile 7 million step Great March for Climate Action from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. The Beyond Extreme Energy actions focused on retiring fossil fuels and calling for investment in clean renewable energy instead. Similar struggles are occurring in a number of states where residents are using every tool at their disposal including creative nonviolent direct action to stop the construction of fossil fuel infrastructure. We spoke with Faith Meckley of the Great March for Climate Action and We Are Seneca Lake and Will Bennington of Rising Tide Vermont.

FERC: Greed ‘Not In The Public Interest’

November 11, 2014 Anne Meador www.cetology.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, FERC, Fracking

In only the last two months, FERC approved two LNG export terminals–Cove Point LNG on the Chesapeake Bay and Corpus Christi LNG on the Gulf Coast; the Constitution Pipeline, 124 miles of new pipeline in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York; and a storage facility for liquefied petroleum gas in a salt cavern on Seneca Lake in upstate New York. Even on the last day of protests, as activists blocked the driveway to FERC’s parking garage with arms locked together and encased in PVC pipe, FERC announced that a proposed LNG export terminal on the Oregon coast would have few environmental impacts, paving the way for its final permit. Photo by Martine Zundmanis Protestors block FERC’s parking garage. Photo by Martine Zundmanis All of these major projects, even with mitigation, are problematic for health, safety and environmental reasons. The Cove Point terminal, for example, is located in the middle of a highly populated area, where the risks of highly volatile LNG are compounded by squeezing a power plant and liquefaction train into a small site.

Stand By Those Who Stand In Way Of Fracking

November 11, 2014 Wenona Hauter, www.foodandwaterwatch.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment, FERC, Fracking

The narrative of the Seneca Lake 12 is becoming all too familiar, as concerned residents across the nation are often finding no legal means of resistance against the incessant development of dangerous fossil fuel infrastructure spurred on by fracking. Thanks to the decimation of campaign finance laws by the U.S. Supreme Court, state and federal politicians have become increasingly bought off by the unlimited wealth of the oil and gas industry. As such, pleas from desperate local officials and community groups to reject hazardous infrastructure projects fall on deaf ears. As for FERC, the federal commission charged with regulating the construction and operation of our nation’s energy supply, forget about it. The faceless, bureaucratic agency is simply a machine-like rubber stamp for the whims of the fossil fuel industry and a president who usually backs them.

Victory For Beyond Extreme Energy At FERC

November 10, 2014 Ted Glick, www.tedglick.com Resist! Energy, Environment, FCC, Fracking

Who would have thought it? On Friday morning, November 7th, for 2 ½ hours, the determined and courageous nonviolent activists of Beyond Extreme Energy shut down the DC headquarters of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC. All three entrances to the building were successfully blockaded, and virtually no one was getting in. By 9 am there were about 150 FERC employees massed on the sidewalks in front of FERC, waiting for the police to clear away five fracking fighters who had successfully locked down at 7 am with lock boxes across the driveway into the FERC parking garage. The driveway had been the route used by police to funnel FERC employees into the building for the four days previous when BXE activists had successfully blockaded the two pedestrian entrances.

IPCC Warning Spurs Union Calls For Energy Democracy

November 10, 2014 Sean Sweeney, www.unionsforenergydemocracy.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Labor Unions

On November 2, 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report, the final in the “Fifth Assessment Report” process. It builds on three reports released by the IPCC since early 2013. The IPCC is a senior UN panel made up of thousands of climate scientists and this report marks its fifth ‘assessment’ since 1990 of the state of the climate and the present and future impacts of global warming. The Synthesis Report reiterates what the IPCC has been telling us for a decade or more: “Climate change is being registered around the world and warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Since the 1950s many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.” The period from 1983 to 2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1,400 years in the Northern Hemisphere. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are “unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years”.

100+ Arrested At Beyond Extreme Energy’s Week-Long Protests At FERC

November 8, 2014 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Cove Point, Energy, Environment, FERC

As the participants in the Great March for Climate Action ended up in Washington, DC, on Nov. 1 after a six-month trek across the country, they joined with other environmental groups to launch a week of action under the banner Beyond Extreme Energy. The actions revolved around a series of blockades at the DC headquarters of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with more than 100 people arrested. Nonviolent direct actions began on Monday with 25 protestors arrested outside FERC’s office while blockading the entrance with a giant sign depicting families impacted by frackinginfrastructure greenlighted by FERC. Today was the final day of the actions intended to call attention to FERC’s approval of projects that endanger communities and drive climate change, and demand a more inclusive and open hearing process.

Bush’s Play Central Role In Suing Over Fracking Ban

November 8, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Law

On November 4, Denton, Texas, became the first city in the state to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) when 59 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of the initiative. It did so in the heart of the Barnett Shalebasin, where George Mitchell — the “father of fracking” — drilled the first sample wells for his company Mitchell Energy. As promised by the oil and gas industryand by Texas Railroad Commission commissioner David Porter, the vote was met with immediate legal backlash. Both theTexas General Land Office and the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) filed lawsuits in Texas courts within roughly 12 hours of the vote taking place, the latest actions in the aggressive months-long campaign by the industry and theTexas state government to fend off the ban.

In Secret Process Illinois Approves New Rules For Fracking

November 7, 2014 Kerry Lester, www.therepublic.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Illinois

Illinois lawmakers signed off Thursday on long-awaited rules regulating high-volume oil and gas drilling, clearing the way for companies to get "fracking" permits and unleash what they hope will be an energy boom in the southern part of the state. But a number of key details were not disclosed including how the state plans to fund the hiring of new workers to oversee the practice, which uses high-pressure mixtures to crack open rocks and release trapped oil and gas. The delay in the fracking rules — which took more than a year for the state Department of Natural Resources to write and which were revised by a legislative committee — prompted complaints from industry that energy development would suffer. The final rules must be submitted to the Secretary of State to be published by Nov. 15.

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