Energy

Oil Town Makes History, Residents Say No Fracking

November 6, 2014 Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com Resist! Election, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Protests, Texas

The Texas town where America’s oil and natural gas boom began has voted to ban fracking, in a stunning rebuke to the industry. Denton, a college town on the edge of the Barnett Shale, voted by 59% to ban fracking inside the city limits, a first for any locality in Texas. Organisers said they hoped it would give a boost to anti-fracking activists in other states. More than 15 million Americans now live within a mile of an oil or gas well. “It should send a signal to industry that if the people in Texas – where fracking was invented – can’t live with it, nobody can,” said Sharon Wilson, the Texas organiser for EarthWorks, who lives in Denton.

Dominion Pier Project Target Of Election Day Protest

November 6, 2014 John Tayman, www.thebaynet.com Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment

Protesters descended on Solomons on Election Day to voice their concerns over Dominion’s Cove Point liquefaction project. About 2 dozen protesters arrived by bus to march in front of construction equipment and occupy the sidewalk in front of Calvert Marine Museum for a few hours. Dominion is constructing a temporary pier for offloading large equipment destined for the liquefaction plant a few miles up the road in Cove Point. The protest centered at the entrance of the site, where a backhoe was busy burying cable lines and dump trucks steadily moved in and out of the property. Overall it was a very civil disturbance, highlighted by the arrest of several protesters who scaled the large mound of dirt that is being piled up on the site. As they crested the hill, the demonstrators cheered and yelled slogans. The protesters on the hill displayed a banner protesting the construction of the site.

Big Oil “Air War” Fails To Sink Richmond Progressives

November 6, 2014 Steve Early Create! Climate Change, Elections, Energy, Environment

By October 30, Butt’s mainly small donors had raised about $60,000 for him. Even with an additional $25,000 in local public matching funds, his total campaign spending will be one-thirtieth of what Chevron spent on Bates & Co. Based on Richmond’s projected overall turn-out, Chevron’s failed investment in re-taking city hall works out to about $72 per voter. That’s a drop in the bucket for a global company with $21 billion in profits last year. And when it comes to “wealthy, elitist friends,” I bet that Chevron CEO John Watson, a Richmond native but current resident of San Ramon, has many more than Tom Butt--just based on Watson’s total compensation of $24 million last year. Tom Butt’s victory party was held in the Point Richmond section of the city, which is the new mayor’s home turf.

Federal Reserve Policy Change May Burst Fracking Bubble

November 5, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, Fracking

In August 2005, the U.S. Congress and then-President George W. Bush blessed the oil and gas industry with a game-changer: the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Act exempted the industry from federal regulatory enforcement of theSafe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. While the piece of omnibus legislation is well-known to close observers of the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) issue — especially the “Halliburton Loophole” — lesser known is another blessing bestowed upon shale gas and tight oil drillers: near zero-percent interest ratesfor debt accrued during the capital-intensive oil and gas production process. Or put more bluntly, near-free money from the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. That trend may soon come to a close, as the Federal Reserve recently announced an end to its controversial $3 trillion bond-buying program.

Protesters Stop Work At Cove Point Construction Site

November 5, 2014 Right Now I/O, www.rightnow.io Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment

As part of the week long BXE (Beyond Extreme Energy) protest at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) a protest was held at a construction site that is part of the Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Terminal. Cove Point is the KXL of fracking. Cove Point will open up the export of gas which is necessary for increasing profits from fracking out of the Marcellus Shale. This construction is at occurring at a time when scientific reports say the world should stop building carbon fuel infrastructure because humans need to shift to clean, sustainable energy. Even the police knew that protesters were coming and that some would be risking arrest, and there were a lot of overt and covert police throughout the construction area.

15 Arrested Protesting Seneca Lake Fracking Project

November 4, 2014 We Are Seneca Lake, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, New York (NY)

Entering the third week, starting at 7:00 AM this morning protesters blocked the gates of Texas-based Crestwood Midstream’s gas storage facility on the shore of Seneca Lake. 15 people were arrested at about 9:00 AM after Crestwood called the police. Last week, ten protesters were arrested in acts of civil disobedience blocking the gates, just as the 15 people did today. Protesters have held blockades at the Crestwood gate since Thursday, October 23; on Wednesday, October 29, they began blocking two of the gates to Crestwood. Notably, the ongoing protests also included a rally with more than 200 people at the Crestwood gate on Friday, October 24th. 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.

Greenpeace Climbs Oil Derrick To Push For Solar Energy

November 4, 2014 Greenpeace, www.http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/ Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Renewable Energy

Early this morning four Greenpeace activists climbed the 40-metre-high, historic Leduc drilling platform at Edmonton’s Gateway Park to hang a large banner saying: “Go Solar: 100% Climate Safe”. They set up a small solar panel on the derrick, using its energy to power a sound system playing music proclaiming the power of the sun. The Leduc oil derrick, which launched western Canada’s oil boom 70 years ago, was chosen as a symbolic location to say it’s time to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy for the sake of the climate. “Fossil fuels may have powered the industrial revolution, but it’s time for the sun and other renewable energy sources to power the next,” said Mike Hudema, an Alberta-based Climate and Energy campaigner for Greenpeace Canada.

Climate Marchers Arrive In DC, Urge Action Against Climate Change Now

November 4, 2014 John Zangas, www.cetology.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

The Great March for Climate Action completed an eight month cross-country trek on Saturday, arriving at the White House. Enviros walked their last leg into Washington, DC escorted by nearly 200 people. As they walked from Maryland into DC, they chanted the names of the 11 states they had crossed over 8 months. They sang songs accompanied by guitars and spoke of their experiences. Their arrival marks the beginning of a week of climate actions across the region. As they arrived at the White House, they called on the administration to immediately begin fulfilling promises it made in 2008, to convert energy production to renewable sources–wind, solar and geothermal.

FERC Blockaded, DNC Protested Before Mid-Term Elections

November 3, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Cove Point, Energy, Environment, FERC, Fracking

A total of 47 people were arrested today protesting fracking projects approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This was the first day of the Beyond Extreme Energy week of protests at FERC. The protests seek to to shut down FERC throughout the week. On Monday, 25 people were arrested at FERC, 7 were arrested at a construction site for the Cove Point fracked gas export facility in Maryland and 15 were arrested at the Senaca Lake storage facility in New York. At FERC more than 100 protesters blockaded three entrances to FERC, including the entrance to the garage. They used a variety of forms of blockades and creative resistance artwork. Artwork included images of families adversely impacted by fracking as well as a town. BXE wantd to show that FERC is destroying families and communities and needs to be shut down. Police from Homeland Security destroyed the town and pulled down the images as part of its effort to protect FERC. In the afternoon the BXE protesters march to the Democratic National Committee to make a point, on the day before Election Day, that the Democrats are losing the vote of people concerned about climate because the policies they are putting forward continue to make climate change work.

Activists Halt Construction of Cove Point LNG Export Terminal

November 3, 2014 Staff, www.energyexportsactioncamp.wordpress.com Resist! Blockade, Cover Point, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Gas

Chesapeake Bay, Maryland mother Kelly Canavan locked herself to a piece of equipment at a construction site in Solomons integral to the project. Canavan is the president of AMP Creeks Council, a small nonprofit organization that focuses on land use and zoning policy. She is also part of Stopping Extraction and Exports Destruction (SEED), an umbrella group of mid-Atlantic activists fighting energy extraction and exports. “The AMP Creeks Council has been opposing this project through several lawsuits for about a year,” Canavan said. “Now that FERC is poised to preempt any further victories we might be awarded in Calvert County, and Maryland officials at every level continue to support Dominion instead of residents, we are forced to take this stand. This is a peaceful protest to call attention to the carelessness and injustice that have characterized the course of this project from the beginning.” “The destruction of this prominent area in the Solomons community is tangible proof of the determination of both Dominion and Maryland politicians to steamroll residents’ rights.” Canavan said.

Denton Tells Big Oil To Frack Off

November 3, 2014 Jim Hightower, www.otherwords.org Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Texas

The University of North Texas, best known for its top-notch jazz program and sometimes for its “Mean Green” football team, might soon become known as Frack U. UNT (where I went to college back in the Paleocene Epoch) and the good people of the surrounding city of Denton are at the center of an epochal fight between Big Oil and common sense. Denton, just 30 miles north of Dallas, stands on the frontlines of the growing conflict between frackers and the rest of us. Unbeknownst to nearly all Dentonites (until recently), they sit atop the Barnett shale field, a deposit of natural gas locked a mile and a half underground in ancient rock.

The Act Of Doing Speaks Volumes

November 3, 2014 Cheryl Mcnamara, www.rabble.ca Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, March

For Fernando, joining the March was a matter of standing for something too. Fernando is from the south east side of Chicago, an area that he describes as a toxic environment due to heavy steel mills, trucking and landfills. He found the Climate March while searching for a Native American healing walk. Fernando is part Prairie Band Potawatomi and Spanish. Joining the March in Chicago, Fernando realized that in walking to Washington, D.C., he was giving voice to people in his community who are concerned about local environmental impacts but are too busy with work and family to take action. As a Native American, he also feels accountable to multiple generations. "For seven generations my ancestors prayed for me and my family," he said. "When I pray for my future generations, I realize that I'm praying for generations that may not exist because of our accelerated global issues. I want to do something, and not be your average consumer and drive a gas guzzler."

Activists Organize To Battle A Pipeline In Iowa

November 3, 2014 Mara Kardas-Nelson, www.truth-out.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Iowa, Keystone XL

Farmers and environmental activists are trying to fight a proposed pipeline that would bring Bakken crude through Iowa. But with little information from the company or the government, they're left in the dark - and are struggling to organize across ideological divides. Apparently - supposedly - it caught everyone by surprise. Without any previous announcement or public consultation, Iowa media reported in July that a Texas company, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) plans to build a $5 billion, 1,100-mile pipeline to go through 17 Iowa counties. It would bring at least 320,000 barrels of crude per day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa and to refineries in Illinois before it's finally shipped to the Gulf Coast, primarily for export.

Canada Accused Of Failing To Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses

November 3, 2014 Carey L. Biron, www.ipsnews.net Organize! Canada, Energy, Environment, Latin America, Law, Mining

The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country’s massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified here Tuesday before an international tribunal. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) also heard concerns that the Canadian government is not making the country’s legal system available to victims of these abuses. “Far too often, extractive companies have double-standards in how they behave at home versus abroad.” -- Alex Blair of Oxfam America

IPCC Report: Time To End Reliance On Fossil Fuels

November 3, 2014 Steve Connor, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, IPCC

Time is running out if the world wants to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change according to the most definitive report to date by the UN body charged with formulating expert advice for governments around the globe. In what amounts to a "final warning" about the dangers of not doing enough to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, the Intergovernmental Panel and Climate Change (IPCC) said that it is technically and economically possible to still keep within the target of no more than a 2C increase in global average temperatures. However, the panel warns in its Synthesis Repot published yesterday that fossil fuels will have to be significantly scaled back in the coming decades, and eliminated entirely by 2100, in order to keep within what is widely considered to be the "safe" limit for global warming.

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