Energy

Pacific Climate Change Warriors Block World’s Largest Coal Port

October 21, 2014 Lyndal Rowlands, www.ipsnews.net Resist! Australia, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Water

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 2014 (IPS) - Climate Change Warriors from 12 Pacific Island nations paddled canoes into the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle, Australia, Friday to bring attention to their grave fears about the consequences of climate change on their home countries. The 30 warriors joined a flotilla of hundreds of Australians in kayaks and on surfboards to delay eight of the 12 shipsscheduled to pass through the port during the nine-hour blockade, which was organised with support from the U.S.-based environmental group 350.org. "Fifteen years ago, when I was going to school, you could walk in a straight line. Now you have to walk in a crooked line because the beach has eroded away." -- Mikaele Maiava

Mexican Activist Killed On Air During Radio Show In Mazatlan

October 20, 2014 Associated Press in Mexico, www.theguardian.com Resist! Activism, Energy, Journalism, Media, Mexico

Two gunmen walked into a radio station and killed a local activist while he was presenting his weekly radio programme, prosecutors in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa said. It was the first on-air killing in recent memory in Mexico. The victim, Atilano Román Tirado, headed a group of about 800 farm families whose lands were flooded by dam construction several years ago. His group, the Displaced Persons of Picachos – named after the dam – has been demanding compensation for the land. Román Tirado had a weekly variety programme on Fiesta Mexicana,a local radio station in the Pacific port of Mazatlan. In past years the Picachos movement had staged blockades and protest marches, which had resulted in arrests. Sinaloa state prosecutors said two men walked into the station on Saturday and asked for Román Tirado. The station is in a building that also houses the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlan.

4,000 Barrels Of Oil Spill From Louisiana Pipeline

October 20, 2014 Craig Sims, www.ktbs.com Educate! Energy, Environment, EPA, Oil Spill, Safety, usa

MOORINGSPORT, La. (KTBS) - Raw oil is coating around a four mile section of Tete Bayou in Caddo Parish after a major spill Monday, around 8 AM. It happened just southwest of Mooringsport. Three families have been displaced because of the environmental disaster. The burst oil pipe belongs to Sunoco Logistics, which says the exact cause of the spill is still under investigation. Sunoco faces a long cleanup. The company estimates for now that around 4,000 thousand barrels worth of oil poured from the pipe, which carries oil from Texas to Ohio. At a press conference Saturday, it was announced around 1,900 barrels have already been cleaned up so far. Louisiana State Police say the three families were not forced out but asked to leave because of the oil's fumes.

Intergenerational Trauma & The Bakken Oil Fields

October 20, 2014 Winona Laduke, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, LandRights, Law, Oil & Gas, Poverty, Water

For me, this story began at Lake Superior, a place that is sacred to the Anishinaabeg, the source of a fifth of the world’s fresh water. I rode my horse with my family, my community and our allies, from that place, Rice Lake Refuge, to Rice Lake, on my own reservation. Those two lakes are the mother lode of the world’s wild rice. Those two lakes—in fact, the entire region—are threatened by a newly proposed pipeline of fracked oil from what is known as the Bakken Oil Fields of North Dakota, from the homeland of those Arikara people. The pipeline proposed is called the Sandpiper. We rode, but we did not stop. Driven to go to the source, we traveled to North Dakota. That is this story. Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara territory lies along the northern Missouri River, a land of gentle rolling hills, immense prairie diversity and the memory of 50 million buffalo.

Fish & Game Cop Tries to Gag Activists, Shut Down By PD

October 18, 2014 Blair Koch, www.environews.tv Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Police

Boise, ID — An oil and gas lease auction on Oct. 15, 2014 by the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) was delayed for about 30 minutes as protesters went back and forth with state officials concerning their right to silently protest the event. Reporters at local EnviroNews Idaho have witnessed similar silent protests in the past conducted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction (IRAGE) during IDL’s oil and gas tract auctions without incident. Previous auctions have been held at the IDL’s office in Boise but this oil and gas tract sale was hosted by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, due to it’s larger conference room. According to video taken by WIRT and given to EnviroNews, activists who were confined to a “protest area” were told their signs were disruptive to the auction and would have to be taken outside.

‘Not Drowning, Fighting’: Pacific Climate Warriors Blockade Coal Port

October 18, 2014 John Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Water

Declaring themselves "Pacific Climate Warriors," representatives from a dozen Pacific Island nations—sitting atop traditional outrigger canoes, kayaks, and other small boats—staged a full-day blockade of the Newcastle Coal Port in Australia on Friday as they sent a message to the government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the world that they will not sit idly by as the activities of the fossil fuel industry and its backers continue to threaten the existence of their low-lying homes. "The coal which leaves this port has a direct impact on our culture and our islands. It is clear to us that this is the kind of action which we must take in order to survive. Climate change is an issue which affects everyone and coal companies may expect further actions like this in future." —Pacific Climate

Climate Marchers Converge With Local Fracking Activists

October 18, 2014 The Allegheny Front, www.alleghenyfront.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

In Washington, D.C., next month, environmentalists who've made their way across the country are planning to pressure the Obama administration to stop using fossil fuels. They're part of the Great March for Climate Action that started in March in Los Angeles. One sunny Saturday afternoon this October, the marchers met with local fracking activists in Diamond Park, across from the Butler County Courthouse. The event was part of the Global Frackdown, one of many protests worldwide against fracking for oil and gas. Lisa DeSantis, from Lawrence County, describes herself as an activist clown. She's painted tears of oil dripping down her face for this protest. She thinks fracking should be banned because it can contaminate water.

Legal Challenge Filed Against Fracked Gas Terminal

October 17, 2014 Earth Justice, www.earthjustice.org Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Protest

Washington, D.C. — Environmental and community groups took the first step late yesterday in a likely legal battle against a controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility. On behalf of Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, Patuxent Riverkeeper, and Potomac Riverkeeper the environmental law organization Earthjustice filed a motion for rehearing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), demanding the agency withdraw its approval of an LNG export facility proposed at Cove Point in southern Maryland. The filing positions the groups to sue the agency to challenge FERC’s inadequate environmental review of the project. Groups also filed a motion for a stay, urging FERC to halt further construction on the $3.8 billion project.

First Nations Protesters Set Up At Manitoba Dam

October 17, 2014 Chinta Puxley, www.globalnews.ca Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Protest

CROSS LAKE, Man. – Protesters from a northern Manitoba First Nation are occupying the grounds around a generating station and have issued an eviction notice to Manitoba Hydro for what they say is a violation of their treaty rights. More than 100 protesters from the Cross Lake First Nation north of Lake Winnipeg marched to the hydro dam Wednesday and some have refused to leave the grounds. In a letter to Hydro president Scott Thomson, Chief Catherine Merrick said the First Nation is taking control of its traditional territory and evicting the Crown corporation. “You do not respect our rights,” she wrote in the letter dated Oct. 6. “You do not even respect or acknowledge who we are as people. Money and profit — that which you make off our traditional territory and people — is apparently all you care about.”

Islanders Occupy The Sabine Channel For A Coal Free Salish Sea

October 17, 2014 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Water

Lasqueti Island – In response to the announcement of the approval of permits for the shipment of US thermal coal through Greater Vancouver, the Fraser River, and up the Salish Sea to Texada Island, citizens in the region protested by Occupying the Sabine Channel on Saturday, October 4, 2014. More than 150 people, primarily from Lasqueti Island’s 426 population, came out in boats and on the shoreline to object to the Salish Sea being the staging ground for the export of dirty Thermal coal from Wyoming and Montana to Asia. Several boats were also there from Texada and Thetis islands. Disallowed by US ports to date, this polluting and dirty coal will come by train across the border to the Fraser/Surrey docks (up to 2 trains per day, each train up to 1km long.)

Fracking Protest Camp Set Up To Protect Horse Hill Near Horley

October 17, 2014 Becca Taylor, www.getsurrey.co.uk Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Protest

A protest group has set up camp near Horley to protect a site from possible fracking following news that oil 'shows' at Horse Hill after weeks of exploration. Horse Hill Developments has been drilling at the Horse Hill site since the beginning of September with a promise to campaigners that it would not be fracking there, butFrack Free Surrey fear the company is testing the ground for future projects in the Weald. The company does not currently have a license to frack, but stated on September 18 that "the information gained through these activities will provide valuable insights into the technical and economic viability of unconventional development elsewhere in the Weald Basin".

Walmart’s Walton Family Threatens America’s Renewable Energy Future

October 16, 2014 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Energy, Renewable Energy, Walmart

Although Walmart has installed more solar power capacity than any other U.S. company, its owners, the Walton family, have invested millions in groups that are fighting to limit the development of solar power, according to a new report from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). The report, How The Walton Family Is Threatening Our Clean Energy Future, resolves the contradiction by pointing to the multibillionaires’ main motivation: profit. According to the report, “The Walton family—majority owners of Walmart—are impeding America’s transition to a clean energy future. At a time when more than 500,000 households and businesses are generating their own solar electricity, and the U.S. solar industry is employing 143,000 people, the Waltons are funding nearly two dozen organizations working to roll back renewable energy policies, while a Walton-owned company is pushing for regulations aimed at hindering the growth of rooftop solar power.”

Support Indigenous Struggles Against Corporate Onslaught

October 16, 2014 Rebecca Kemble, www.progressive.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

This year Seattle and Minneapolis proclaimed the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day. They are the latest U.S. cities to join the trend that began in Berkeley in 1992 to supplant Columbus Day with a formal recognition of the people who have survived over five centuries of genocide, war, dislocation, discrimination, and social exclusion in the nations that were subsequently developed in the Americas. Multinational corporations have replaced kingdoms, empires and the Catholic Church as the prime agents of devastation and wealth extraction, but the exploitative dynamic remains fundamentally the same 522 years after Christopher Columbus first dropped anchor in the Caribbean.

Ts’ka7 Warriors Burn Down Mine Bridge

October 16, 2014 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

With much discussion with Elders Councils and around Sacred fires and ceremonies the Secwepemc Ts’ka7 Warriors have acted out their collective responsibility and jurisdiction to and in the Ts’ka7 area by deactivating the Imperial Metals Ruddock Creek mine road. Imperial Metals Corporation never asked for or received free, prior and informed consent to operate in Secwepemc Territory. The Imperial Metals Mount Polley mine disaster, in the area known as Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe, the absolute destruction and devastation of our Territory has never been answered for. No reparations have been made.

Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake In Alberta

October 15, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Canada, Climate Change, Energy, History, ISIS, Kuwait, Tar Sands, Wars and Militarism

Chevron made waves in the business world when it announced its October 6 sale of 30-percent of its holdings in the Alberta-based Duvernay Shale basin to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) for $1.5 billion. It marked the first North American purchase for the Kuwaiti state-owned oil company and yields KUFPEC 330,000 acres of Duvernay shale gas. Company CEO and the country's Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, called it an “anchor project” that could spawn Kuwait's expansion into North America at-large. Kuwait's investment in the Duvernay, at face-value buying into Canada'shydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) revolution, was actually also an all-in bet on Alberta's tar sands. As explained in an October 7 article in Platts, the Duvernay serves as a key feedstock for condensate, a petroleum product made from gas used to dilute tar sands, allowing the product to move through pipelines.

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