Fearless Summer

Fearless Summer Brings a Storm to the Finger Lakes

June 30, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

A Storm is Brewing in the Finger Lakes. Yesterday, over 60 people with the Finger Lakes Action Network converged on the Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing, New York to demand the permeant retirement of the coal-fired power plant and say "NO!" to the repowering of the facility with toxic fracked gas. The plant has been burning over 900,000 tons of coal a year from Mountain Top Removal sites in Appalachia and now they want to convert it to burn toxic fracked gas, poisoning communities in the Shalefields and increasing the presence of Fracking infrastructure.

Fearless Summer: Protests in Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon

June 30, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

Across the North West last week, people took action against coal exports and plans to turn the Pacific Northwest into a dirty energy super corridor! On Tuesday, Montanans rallied at the County Courthouse in Missoula against Exports and the Otter Creek Mine with Blue Skies Campaign, Coal Export Action and Northern Rockies Rising Tide. On Thursday, Washington and Idaho united to opposed Ambre energy's proposed coal terminal in Oregon. Wild Idaho Rising visited the Army Corps in Coeur D'Alene while Occupy Spokane andSpokane Coalition Builders brought the message to the streets. On Friday, Rising Tide Seattle and Portland Rising Tide saw some rowdy bike rides visiting all sorts of climate criminals to tell them to keep their fossil fuels off their coast!

Fearless Summer: Video: Mainers Block Frac-Oil Trains

June 29, 2013 Regis Tremblay, Fairfield Direct Action, www.youtube.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer, Fracking, Video

This video shows 350 Maine, a grassroots movement addressing the climate crisis,blockading a Pan Am train as it passes through downtown Fairfield tonight, preventing roughly 70,000 barrels of crude oil from reaching the Irving Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. Police are on the scene. Trains running through Maine carry crude from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, where it is “fracked” or extracted by blasting a high pressure toxic cocktail deep into the ground to release the oil from shale rock, polluting air and water in surrounding communities.

Fearless Summer Climate Profiteers Bike Tour

June 29, 2013 Rising Tide North America - Seattle, www.facebook.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

On Friday June 28 Rising Tide Seattle activists and friends converged for a Climate Profiteers Bike Tour. We used pedel power to disrupt three profiteers and proudly declared that they are not welcome on the Salish Sea and in the Northwest. We will not allow our region to become a fossil-fuel corridor. Their story is told through the photo gallery below.

Fearless Summer: Two Trains Carrying Fracked Gas Blocked in Maine

June 28, 2013 Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer, Fracking

With hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” technology, oil that has long been impossible to extract is now the source of an explosive oil boom in the Midwest. Without enough pipelines to transport the Midwest crude to distant refineries, there has been a surge in the use of trains. Inspections of tracks are infrequent due to lack of resources to oversee them. “We oppose the continued extraction of fossil fuels, but we also oppose its transportation over thousands of miles of environmentally sensitive areas,” said Sass Linneken of Benton, student at Unity College. “Since my number one job is to protect my children, I feel an obligation to take action,” she said.

Detroit Protesters Block Entrance for Petroleum Coke Deliveries

June 27, 2013 Staff, www.d-cats.org/ Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

Action with the truck hauling petcoke started around 8:30am not long after a visit from NAN (National Action Network) leaders in support – Rev Charles Williams Jr, Mary Waters, and Sam Riddle. A human chain blockade was formed and the line was reinforced. Detroit Police and Border Patrol added officers to the ranks through the action with about a dozen police and 8 border patrol present. A police van arrived about 1.5 hours into the action, appearing to be ready to pull protesters to jail. Our police liaison kept a cool head through the action and worked with all parties to a negotiated position after 2 hours of demonstration between police, protesters, and Savage Industries / Detroit Bulk Storage Company that TransFlo Terminal would not receive any more trucks of petroleum coke.

Fearless Summer: Injunction Served, Entire Camp Resisting

June 25, 2013 Staff, www.tarsandsblockade.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Solidarity

Today’s country-wide day of solidarity has been declared as the first official action of the Sovereignty Summer called for by Idle No More and Defenders of the Land; Enbridge’s Westover Terminal is on the territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and there have been individuals from 6 Nations on site all week. We demand that Enbridge acknowledge this land as Haudenosaunee territory, and that no construction can take place until they have received free, prior, and informed consent from the Confederacy.

Fearless Summer Week of Action Begins: Road Blockades and Pipeline Occupations

June 24, 2013 Staff, http://wearefearlesssummer.tumblr.com/ Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

This morning, ten people with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance were arrested blockading the construction of a Keystone XL pump station in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, dozens with the Detroit Coalition Against Tar Sands stopped dump trucks in their tracks from adding to a massive mound of toxic petcoke, a byproduct of tar sands mining, that’s piling up along the Detroit River. And in Marshall, Michigan, a brave activist climbed into a segment of an Enbridge pipeline to protest the pipeline giant’s failed clean-up of the biggest tar sands spill in U.S. history in Kalamazoo, MI -- and its plans to expand construction on the very pipeline that spilled. Fearless Summer is just the beginning.

Fearless Summer: Protests By-Products of Tar Sands in Detroit Today

June 23, 2013 Staff, www.wearefearlesssummer.tumblr.com Organize! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

When you mine the tar sands, you get a byproduct called "pet-coke". It's incredibly dirty--made out of almost pure carbon, as well as contains sulfur and heavy metals. And the Koch brothers are storing huge mounds of this stuff on the shores of the Detroit River. This is extreme energy and environmental racism at some of its worst. So, today, our friends in Detroit are marching at the Detroit river's docks--and staying there through the night with an overnight vigil, followed by a Peoples Press Conference in the morning.

Fearless Summer: Peabody CEO Target of Central West End Protest

June 22, 2013 Lisa Brown, www.stltoday.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer

About 50 protesters staged a demonstration in the Central West End neighborhood Saturday where Peabody Energy's chairman and CEO Greg Boyce lives, marching a papier-mâché puppet of his image across Lindell Boulevard. Connor McFarland said the group was protesting the St. Louis-based coal company's use of fossil fuels and public tax incentives for its headquarters expansion downtown. "As the world's largest coal company, we see them as a major contributor of fossil fuel extraction and contributor to climate change," McFarland said. The protest kicks off what the group is calling the "Fearless Summer" campaign, billed as several weeks of actions across the U.S. targeting all forms of "dirty energy extraction."

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