FERC

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday: Rally & Protest FERC Energy Plans In New York

November 2, 2014 NYC Grassroots Alliance, www.meetup.com Resist! Energy, Environment, FERC, Fracking

It's rare to get a chance to talk to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) or PSC (Public Service Commission) staffers without traveling to DC or Albany, but this week we have a chance to reach them right here in NYC! Both agencies are in town for a joint meeting to discuss New York's energy future, and what happens in NYS affects both PA and New England, so please get to these rallies if you can and tell all your friends! There will be 2 rallies Wednesday, as they begin and end their day. On Monday we are doing a flash mob in front of FERC offices in DC, where we will "point the finger at FERC," and the Beyond Extreme Energy action will be blockading FERC entrances all week in DC, so FERC commissioners will have a hard time missing the public's message! Feel free to recycle the "FERC is a Shady Business" t-shirts that have been created for theMonday action, and if you want to make your own t-shirt the facebook event tells you where to pick up an iron-on decal yourself.

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