Energy

Victory: Lego Announces It Will Not Renew Contract With Shell

October 10, 2014 Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, www.aboutus.lego.com Resist! Children, Energy, Environment, Greenpeace

The Greenpeace campaign uses the LEGO brand to target Shell. As we have stated before, we firmly believe Greenpeace ought to have a direct conversation with Shell.The LEGO brand, and everyone who enjoys creative play, should never have become part of Greenpeace’s dispute with Shell. Our stakeholders have high expectations to the way we operate. So do we. We do not agree with the tactics used by Greenpeace that may have created misunderstandings among our stakeholders about the way we operate; and we want to ensure that our attention is not diverted from our commitment to delivering creative and inspiring play experiences. The long-term co-promotion contract we entered with Shell in 2011 delivers on the objective of bringing LEGO bricks into the hands of many children, and we will honour it – as we would with any contract we enter.

Pinkwashing: Fracking Company To ‘End Breast Cancer Forever’

October 9, 2014 Sandra Steingraber, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Charity, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking

Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer organization in America with more than 100,000 volunteers and partnerships in more than 50 countries, has teamed up with Baker Hughes, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies with employees in more than 80 countries. Susan G. Komen hands out pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness, and Baker Hughes fracks. So, there you have it: a pink, fracking, drill head. That’s Susan G. Komen pink, by the way. It’s special. Like John Deere green. And that signature color has been painted by hand on a thousand drill bits, which will soon be shipped by Baker Hughes to well pads all over the world, thus facilitating a thousand fossil fuel extraction projects just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Which is this month. (But please don’t confuse Baker Hughes pink drill bits with Chesapeake Energy’s “even-rigs-can-rally-for-a-cure” pink drill rigs. That was so 2012).

Cove Point Residents Speak Of Dangers From Proposed LNG Plant

October 9, 2014 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Human Rights

Advocates and residents of Cove Point denounced energy giant Dominion’s plans to build a liquid natural gas (LNG) plant near their homes during a press conference Friday. They spoke from the front lawn of Dominion Cove Point’s nearest neighbor, Rachel Heinhorst.IMG_0595-1.JPG “I am holding on to hope…there will be a realization of the careless decision to let this happen here so close to my family,” said Heinhorst, a mother of three who has lived near Cove Point for 8 years. Their denouncemets of Dominion’s plan were in clear view of its front gate as trucks pulled in and out of the busy facility while front gate security officers stood watch.

Groups Vow To Fight Federal Approval Of Cove Point

October 8, 2014 John Zangas, www.facebook.com Organize! Climate Change, Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Natural Gas

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved energy giant Dominion Resources’ application to build the controversial Cove Point Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) plant and associated projects in Lusby, Maryland. Environmental and community groups who condemn the decision will protest at FERC headquarters in Washington, D.C., and at the Cove Point facility this Friday at 10am. Advocates for green energy expressed “deep disappointment” and say they’ll appeal the decision. They have 30 days to file an appeal with FERC to deny approval of the $3.8 billion project. Dominion’s plan to build the LNG plant at Cove Point sets it in close proximity to the estimated 24,000 residents of Lusby, raising safety concerns of residents and advocacy groups. Over 600 homes and 2,400 residents are located within a mile of the plant. Residents are concerned because they are pinned between a two lane road which borders the plant for ¾ mile, and the Chesapeake Bay, the only exit from Cove Point area. Residents, fear for their safety because they say that if there is a gas release, explosion, or fire, their only recourse would be to evacuate along the road next to the proposed LNG facility.

Cuomo Administration Edited And Delayed Key Fracking Study

October 8, 2014 Scott Waldman, www.capitalnewyork.com Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, New York (NY)

ALBANY—A federal water study commissioned by the Cuomo administration as it weighed a key decision on fracking was edited and delayed by state officials before it was published, a Capital review has found. The study, originally commissioned by the state in 2011, when the administration was reportedly considering approving fracking on a limited basis, was going to result in a number of politically inconvenient conclusions for Governor Andrew Cuomo, according to an early draft of the report by the U.S. Geological Survey obtained by Capital through a Freedom of Information Act request. A comparison of the original draft of the study on naturally occurring methane in water wells across the gas-rich Southern Tier with the final version of the report, which came out after extensive communications between the federal agency and Cuomo administration officials, reveals that some of the authors' original descriptions of environmental and health risks associated with fracking were played down or removed.

Activists Chained To Fence In Montreal To Protest Enbridge’s Line 9

October 8, 2014 Amanda Kelly, www.globalnews.ca Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment, Tar Sands

According to a statement, the activists are hoping to disrupt Suncor’s refinery operations to raise awareness of the issues involved in transporting oil across the country. You can view a detailed map of Line 9′s route here. Activists said they are expressing public outrage against the arrival of tar sands oil in Quebec. The oil will by transported by the Enbridge pipeline 9B, which activists say will ship up to 300,000 barrels of crude oil to the province from Alberta every day. MONTREAL — It took nearly seven hours for Montreal police to finally remove a protestor chained to a fence outside Enbridge’s Montreal headquarters in Montreal’s east end. One of the activists, Alyssa Symons-Bélanger, said in a statement that the reason for the protest is that many feel there are no other means to have their voices heard.

Twenty Things You Can Do To Address The Climate Crisis!

October 7, 2014 Patrick Robbins, www.thischangeseverything.org Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

Getting your mind around climate change is hard. Confronting it requires us to deal with the ways that coal, oil, and gas have shaped nearly every aspect of our world, from our built environments to our economic systems — even our ideologies and patterns of thought. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t concrete actions each of us can take, right now. Here are 20 examples of things YOU can do (some details are US-specific). 1. Reorganize the mode of production so that surplus and capital is distributed equally throughout society, and workers have decision-making power over their labor. 2. Find out about fossil fuel projects being built or proposed in your neighborhood (most of which can be found in the records of theFederal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Environmental Protection Agency) and mobilize your community against them. Read these excellent resources on how to start organizing your community and spread them far and wide.

Montana Excludes Best Options For Lowering CO2 Emissions

October 7, 2014 Eric Whitney, www.mtpr.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Montana

"People are worried about any changes in energy production might change the cost that they pay in their homes for energy or might make businesses cost prohibitive to run here in Montana. We need to dive in and look at those numbers," she said. "On the flip side, we also heard that if we do this right this could save rent payers money, so we look forward to that homework ahead" The cost question was raised last night by David Hoffman, director of external affairs for PPL Montana, the company that runs the Colstrip power plant. DEQ’s Stone-Manning disputed that number, saying any change in the price of electricity as a result of the EPA emissions target is impossible to calculate. That’s because the state has laid out five different options for meeting the target, and each would result in different costs and savings.

Global Frackdown: October 11, 2014

October 7, 2014 #GlobalFrackdown, www.globalfrackdown.org Organize! Climate Change, Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Fracking

While the oil and gas industry is working hard to protect its profits and drown out the worldwide demand for clean, renewable fuels, there is a tremendous global movement afoot to protect our air, water, climate and communities from fracking. Over 200 partner organizations around the world are coming together for an international day of protests on October 11, 2014, calling for an end to fracking. Enter your postal code to find an event near you or create your own! In conjunction with the Global Frackdown, there is a major day of action against international trade agreements in Europe. A number of groups who work against fracking are participating in this event, which includes an anti-fracking platform.

Land Defenders Blockade 6 Sites

October 6, 2014 WildCoast, www.us3.campaign-archive1.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

In northern BC's Sacred Headwaters near Iskut, the Klabona Keepersare seeking to prevent another Mount Polley mining disaster on their land. They are blocking the Red Chris mine, which was set to open this year. Imperial Metals, the company that operates the Red Chris and Mount Polley mines, is going to court Monday to try to evict Tahltan First Nation people from their own territory. Now is the time to join the grassroots movement to defend the Sacred Headwaters of the Skeena, Nass, and Stikine Rivers. Please send support here. Get in touch to stand with the defenders.

This Crusty Activist Gave Up On Playing By The Rules

October 4, 2014 Heather Smith, www.grist.org Resist! Activism, Civil Disobedience, Energy, Environment

It’s been over a year since Alec Johnson was arrested for locking himself to an excavator sitting on a pipeline easement in Atoka, Oklahoma. He’s still waiting to go to trial. Rural Oklahoma communities only hold jury trials once or twice a year, and every time a new court date comes up, Johnson gets bumped – priority goes to anyone charged with a felony or presently cooling their heels in jail, which Johnson is not. A lot has changed in that year. The protest around U.S. energy policy and climate change has shifted fronts – coal terminals, oil-by-rail, divestment, solar, and a massive climate rally planned for this September. Keystone XL South (now renamed the Gulf Coast pipeline) is up and running and being monitored by an ad hoc group of volunteers.

Mining Firm Receives ‘Stones Of Shame’

October 4, 2014 APT National News, www.aptn.ca Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights

The chiefs of two Innu communities in northern Quebec took an unusual action Wednesday in the middle of downtown Montreal. Now they call them “stones of shame” for the destruction to their land caused by the mining company over the last 60 years and for ignoring Innu rights by refusing to sign an impact benefit agreements. The chiefs come from communities more than a 1,000 kilometres northeast of Montreal. They came to the head office of the Iron Ore Company to return gifts they received from them in 1970: two very heavy iron stones. Now they call them “stones of shame” for the destruction to their land caused by the mining company over the last 60 years and for ignoring Innu rights by refusing to sign an impact benefit agreements.

We Need To Win The Tar Sands Battle

October 4, 2014 Brad Hornick, www.rabble.ca Educate! Canada, Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Tar Sands

The tar sands agenda, argues Martin Lukacs, empowers the political machinations of the reactionary Right in Canada. It reinforces a corporate constitutionalism that locks-in trade and investment through bilateral and multilateral agreements that secure investment "certainty" through the engineered collapse of environmental regulatory frameworks. "In other words," says Lukacs, "these are not pipelines to build a nation. They are a scheme by which to swindle it." The climate justice movement will continue to radicalize and abruptly challenge the priorities of capital. It will confront the traditional environmental movement as well as Left politics as it forges a new constellation of political forces concerned with Indigenous rights and title, migrant rights, labour rights and the rights of nature.

Federal Court Upholds EPA Veto Of Spruce Mountaintop Removal Mine

October 3, 2014 Earth Justice, www.earthjustice.org Organize! Climate Change, Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Law, Mining

Today Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of a permit for one of the largest and most extreme mountaintop removal coal mines ever proposed in Appalachia, the Spruce No. 1 Mine. The court found no merit in the coal industry’s case, and found that EPA’s decision to veto the Clean Water Act permit for this mine was reasonable and fully supported by the scientific record. Statement from Emma Cheuse, Earthjustice counsel who argued on behalf of several Appalachian groups in defense of the EPA’s veto: “Today’s court victory is a win for all Americans who believe our children deserve clean water and healthy lives without facing the increased threats of cancer, birth defects and early mortality associated with mountaintop removal coal mining."

Chipmunk Resistance Stops Work At Tar Sands Mine

October 3, 2014 Raphael Cordray, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Creative Resistance, Energy, Environment, Tar Sands, Utah

Protesters again stopped work at the construction site of the first tar sands mine in the US. Five people were later arrested and jailed but the campaign to stop the mine said the resistance will not relent until all tar sands plans are canceled. By moving quickly through the site to obstruct numerous construction vehicles, just a handful of speedy protesters were able to shut down the enormous construction project on a sprawling 213 acres in Utah’s Book Cliffs. “Direct, physical intervention is necessary to halt the completion of this toxic project,” said one protester.

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