FERC

New Yorkers Object To FERC Rubber Stamp Of Dominion Pipeline

October 22, 2015 Staff, www.mohawkvalleykeeper.com Resist! FERC, New York (NY), Pipelines

By Staff for Mohawk Valley River Keeper - A coalition of environmental and citizens organizations from across New York strongly object to the release of a woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment (EA) by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on October 20th which supports expansion of a gas pipeline owned by Dominion Transmission Inc. The coalition also demands that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). “Both FERC and Dominion have snubbed their nose at the public from day one,” said John Valentine, spokesperson for Mohawk Valley Keeper. “Our community is dominated by organic farmers and Amish families whose entire lives are inextricably tied to the air, water, and land immediately around them. Yet, the proposed four-smokestack compressor station that Dominion wants to build in our backyard would be the most polluting of the entire project.

Opposition Grows Against Appalachian Pipeline

October 18, 2015 Jim Magill, www.platts.com Resist! FERC, Fracking, Oil and Gas, Oil Pipelines

By Jim Magill for Platts - Pipeline developers looking to build infrastructure to move natural gas out of the Appalachian Basin face numerous challenges, from strengthening opposition from environmental groups to shifting market patterns and increased regulatory scrutiny, speakers at the Platts Appalachian Oil and Gas Conference in Pittsburgh said Friday. "It's something that we have to face right now. I think that all the projects are seeing that," he said on the conference sidelines. "It's bringing out issues that we have to deal with, that we have to look at in our environmental analysis of these projects." He added that some of the larger environmental organizations in the country are beginning to get more involved in the pipeline approval process. "You have to deal with that and you have to take a different approach to it than what we've done in the past," he said.

Pope Francis Comes To The Capital, FERC Protests Escalate

October 6, 2015 Gabriel Shapiro, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Climate Change, FERC

By Gabriel Shapiro for Beyond Extreme Energy - This past week, I took a trip from my school in Western Massachusetts to Washington DC, to hear the Pope’s message, to participate in Jewish Yom Kippur services in solidarity with the Pope’s call for climate action, and to support the Beyond Extreme Energy group as they neared the end of an 18-day water fast. They were fasting on behalf of communities across America that are being impacted by the fracking industry. At the confluence of the Papal visit to the capital and many interfaith climate justice actions leading up the event, the fasters were giving everything they had to the last couple days of prayer, in order to take a bold stand against the fracking industry.

Break-Fast. Literally.

September 26, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.artkillingapathy.com Resist! Environment, FERC, Food and Agriculture, Hunger Strike, Sharing Economy

By Eleanor Goldfield in Art Killing Apathy - This morning, activists with Beyond Extreme Energy plus partnering groups and individuals broke their 18 day fast outside of FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). Their fast represents a ramp up of action aimed at FERC’s wild disregard for people or planet. At the event, activists, fasters, faith leaders, and people from fracked communities came up to share their stories, their experiences and offer up inspiration for a continued fight against big oil and gas and their bought off agencies. People sang, played, danced, marched and literally broke bread with each other.

Pope Arrives, Hunger Strike Grows Against Oil & Gas

September 22, 2015 Melinda Tuhus, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! BXE, Climate Change, Fast, FERC, Oil & Gas, Pope Francis

By Melinda Tuhus for BXE - On the day the Pope arrived in Washington, DC, Beyond Extreme Energy entered the 15th day of their water-only fast, outside of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters, 888 1st St. NE, D.C. The fast, which began on September 8th, is calling on FERC to issue no new permits for oil and gas infrastructure. The fast is growing as two women travelled across the country to join Beyond Extreme Energy’s 18-day fast at FERC). Their communities have been directly harmed by the permits FERC has issued or has pending regarding fracked gas The call for No New Permits is in line with Pope Francis's call in his recent encyclical for the world's leaders to immediately address the already devastating impacts of climate change – fueled by the burning of fossil fuels – especially on the poor who have contributed the least to the problem.

FERC Fast: ‘The Time For Reasonable Has Past’

September 21, 2015 Steven Norris, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Environment, FERC, Hunger Strike, Oil & Gas

By Steven Norris - Many people, FERC employees and passersby, walk past and ignore us. But many also stop and talk, ask what we are doing, give us a victory signs, say "Thanks" or "God bless you", ask for a flier, or simply smile. Many have also stopped and asked probing and important questions, thanking us when they leave. A group of students from a nearby high school in a peace studies class came by, and wanted to learn more. We took them with us to CNN headquarters which is next door to FERC. We were trying to deliver a letter to CNN asking for the moderator of CNN sponsored Republican Presidential debate to ask the candidates about climate change. CNN refused to talk with us or accept the letter. So on the way out, in the fancy cavernous and echoing CNN lobby we chanted "CNN: Ask about climate change," giving these youngsters a small taste of real world activism.

Fasters Lay It On The Line To Stop Gas Pipeline Permits

September 18, 2015 Anne Meador and John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Climate Change, Environment, FERC, Hunger Strike

By Anne Meador and John Zangas in DC Media Grou - It’s come to this. Eighteen days of virtual starvation to draw a line under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s intransigence, its refusal to do much of anything to address controversy, protest, and mass mobilization against the stream of permits it issues to greenlight gas. In other words, rubberstamp approval for the infrastructure projects it takes to transport fracked gas from the shale fields. The hunger strikers, organized under the name Beyond Extreme Energy, have already attended public hearings; made comments on the FERC dockets; organized petitions; disrupted Commission meetings; protested outside of FERC headquarters for two full weeks with banners, props and art displays; and blockaded its doors, resulting in more than 100 arrests.

FERC Fasters In Solidarity With Dyett12

September 17, 2015 Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Dyett, Education, FERC

By Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins of Popular Resistance. Washington, DC - Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) fasted in solidarity with organizers and hunger strikers working to reopen the Dyett High School with a green energy curriculum. This was the 9th day of the BXE fast and the 30th day of the Dyett hunger strike. BXE is fasting at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) demanding an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure permits. Their continued permitting of fossil fuel projects disproportionately impacts poor folks and people of color due to project placement (like many LNG terminals in the Gulf South that need FERC approval) and climate change (like Katrina or Sandy).

Beyond Extreme Energy Stands With Black Lives Matter

September 16, 2015 Lee Stewart, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), BXE, FERC, Racism, Solidarity

By Lee Stewart for Popular Resistance - Beyond Extreme Energy focuses on climate change and fracking infrastructure is working on a set of principles that incorporates anti-oppression work into the core of what we do. One responsibility added to those expected of organizers, for example, is to “help maintain Beyond Extreme Energy’s active role in the broader struggle for collective liberation to which the realization of our mission is inextricably tied.” Working in a coalition under Black leadership in the struggle for Black Lives Matter is something the organization felt compelled to do. Heeding the invitation from the Black Lives Matter Spokes Council, we dedicated one day of our fast to Black Lives Matter.

Fasting At FERC: A Leap Of Faith

September 13, 2015 Steve Norris, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! BXE, Fasting, FERC

By Steve Norris for Popular Resistance, Today, Sunday, we are in the sixth day of our 18 day water-only fast. At present the whole thing is a mystery. It's one big leap of faith into a void that many have warned me not to enter - faith that doing this, depriving myself of food for a time, will teach me and others important lessons I need to know, and perhaps get the attention of FERC and other powers that be in a way our year-long protests, arrests, disruptive actions inside FERC, letters, and meetings have not done. Also, the experience so far is one or both joy and sorrow: There is the great exuberation and learning that comes from working and fasting daily alongside people with rock-solid determination to challenge climate change and its attendant economic, social and racial injustices. And the exhileration each time I see a stranger's eyes light up and they say something like :"thank you for being so bold. Please keep it up." Then too there is the sadness of dealing daily with the reality that millions of people (the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and emigrants from Syria, for example) are already dealing with the impacts of climate change...

12 People Fasting For 18 Days Demanding FERC Issue #NoNewPermits

September 12, 2015 Ted Glick, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Energy, FERC, Oil & Gas

By Ted Glick in EcoWatch - Twelve members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), ages 19 to 72—from California, Virginia, DC, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Nebraska, Michigan and North Carolina—are in the beginning days of a planned 18-day, water-only “Fast for No New Permits” for fossil fuel infrastructure in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a virtual rubber-stamp agency for the fracked gas industry. Each weekday until Sept. 25 we will be on the sidewalk in front of FERC from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., leafletting FERC employees—over a thousand of them—as they arrive for or leave from work. We’re also passing out leaflets to thousands of others who work or live in the area who walk by.

Fast To Fight FERC Permits Begins; Meet The Fasters

September 7, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, FERC, health, Oil and Gas

By Staff of Popular Resistance. Washington, DC - The "Fast for No New Permits" to stop the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from issuing more permits for fossil fuel infrastructure begins on Tuesday, September 8 and will continue until September 25 when the Pope speaks at the United Nations in New York City. Some participants will fast for the entire time, some will fast for one or a few days, some will fast in front of the FERC and some will fast from home. This is part of the Beyond Extreme Energy's (BXE) campaign to stop the FERC from rubberstamping oil and gas permits without regard for the health and safety of the communities that are impacted and the impacts these projects have on locking us into a future devastating climate crisis. BXE demands that the US transition immediately to a clean and sustainable energy future.

80 Health Professionals Demand FERC Stop Unethical Experiment

September 1, 2015 Margaret Flowers, MD, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Climate Change, FERC, health, Oil and Gas

By Margaret Flowers for Beyond Extreme Energy. Washington, DC - In an open letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), more than eighty health professionals urge the FERC to stop permitting oil and gas infrastructure and to move to clean sustainable sources of energy to protect the health of people and the planet. The construction of oil and gas projects such as unconventional fracking, pipelines, compressor stations and export terminals which pollute with cancer and disease-causing chemicals is akin to an uncontrolled health experiment that is destroying communities and risking lives of residents. These projects also harm the workers who build and maintain them. For the health of all who are involved, health professionals demand that this unethical ‘experiment’ stop.

Beyond Extreme Energy’s Fast For No New Permits

August 18, 2015 Moral Action Climate, www.moralactiononclimate.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Faith, FERC

By Moral Action Climate - Beyond Extreme Energy will be conducting a fast at FERC that will run from Tuesday September 8 until Friday the 25th, which is the day after the Pope's speech to Congress. Those fasting in DC will spend the day in front of FERC at 888 1st St. NE. On September 25th we are calling upon people to join us at FERC as we end our fast and try to deliver copies of Laudato Si’ to the five FERC Commissioners. Our rationale for undertaking this action can be found at http://beyondextremeenergy.org. As we say there, “Beyond Extreme Energy has decided to organize a long-term, water-only “Fast for No New Permits” this September in front of FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. We also encourage people to fast individually where they live and/or to organize local solidarity fasts during this same time period.

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