Maryland

Don’t Hold Us Back From Fair Development!

August 17, 2015 Free Your Voice, www.vimeo.com Petitions and Online Actions Community, Environment, Maryland

By Free Your Voice in Vimeo - Check out this powerful new video featuring students, business owners, faith leaders calling for community driven positive alternatives to the incinerator. After the video, sign our petition unitedworkers.org/stop_the_incinerator calling on Maryland Department of the Environment to enforce the law and support our push for Fair Development. Like many communities, we find ourselves in a basic struggle for survival in which our health is sacrificed and the very air we breathe is made toxic by failed development. In such times we must come together to use our creativity and collective resources to find solutions to the crisis we face. Today, we are proud to share this powerful video calling for community control of the 80 acre site currently being held hostage by Energy Answers' plan to build the nations' largest trash burning incinerator less than a mile from schools in Curtis Bay.

Ruling Halts Gunpowder Pipeline Construction

June 2, 2015 Rona Kobell, www.bayjournal.com Resist! Baltimore, Maryland, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

By Rona Kobell in Bay Journal - A Baltimore County Circuit judge ruled that the Maryland Department of the Environment improperly issued a permit to a gas company for its 21-mile pipeline along parts of the Gunpowder River in northern Baltimore County. The move temporarily stops the pipe-line construction, which has riled neighbors, environmental groups and the Friends of Oregon Ridge, a county nature park that sits near the gas company right of way. Circuit Judge Justin King found the permit that the MDE issued to Columbia Gas lacking in many respects. The department, he said, did not give the public adequate notice to review and comment on the proposed right of way. When the company changed its route, the department did not inform people. It did not allow for a review of historic properties on the route.

Calvert County Citizens March With Allies To Stop Cove Point LNG

June 1, 2015 John Zangas and Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Cove Point, Environment, Maryland, Oil & Gas

By John Zangas and Anne Meador in DC Media Group - Lusby, Maryland has never seen a civic action this big, according to local residents. Almost two hundred citizens and supporters mobilized on Saturday for a march to stop energy corporation Dominion Resources from converting Cove Point LNG into a liquefaction facility in the middle of a residential neighborhood. They walked six miles from Solomons Island to Cove Point Park to bring attention to health and safety concerns posed by the Dominion export terminal, which they say appropriated the Cove Point name from their community. We Are Cove Point, Calvert Citizens for a Healthy Community, Beyond Extreme Energy, Sierra Club Southern Maryland Group, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and Patuxent Friends Quaker Meeting organized the “Walk for Calvert County to be Dominion Free.”

Protest At Mass-Arrest-O’Malley Presidential Announcement

June 1, 2015 Kira Lerner, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Baltimore, Maryland, police brutality, Politics

By Kira Lerner in ThinkProgress - A few minutes into O’Malley’s speech, Megan Kenny, a Baltimore activist holding a sign reading “Stop Killer Cops,” began marching and chanting “black lives matter” as police attempted to stop the interruption. “The unrest and the unlawful police practices stem from O’Malley’s zero tolerance policies,” Kenny said. “His zero tolerance policies were ineffective, period.” As mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007, O’Malley instated a “broken windows”-style of policing in an attempt to reduce crime which was rampant in the city at the time. Police officers were encouraged to make arrests for minor-level offenses, with the idea being that minor disorders create an environment in which violent crime occurs.

O’Malley Was Warned His Policing Policy Would Produce Disasters

April 30, 2015 Zaid Jilani, www.alternet.org Resist! Baltimore, Elections, Maryland, police brutality, Politics, President

To make matters worse, O’Malley replaced Daniel with a former NYPD official and old CompStat hand, Edward T. Norris, who is white. In the mostly black city, hackles went up. CompStat’s model of “zero tolerance” policing had by that point already been associated with civil rights abuses and higher police brutality rates. (During the election, one of O’Malley’s opponents had circulated postcards with an image of the Rodney King beating and the words “Are you ready for zero tolerance?” On the back was a photo of O’Malley.) Meanwhile, Maple and Linder —“O’Malley’s New York consultants,” as they were invariably described by the media—and their $2,000-a-day consulting fee, were staying on.

40 Day Sentence For Protest Against Fracked Gas Export

April 21, 2015 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Cove Point, Environment, Fracking, Maryland

On April 20, two environmental activists appeared in Maryland District Court in Calvert County on charges related to a protest against the Cove Point LNG plant, in which they climbed up the arm of a crane and dropped a banner at a Dominion Cove Point construction site. In separate proceedings, Carling Sothoron and Heather Doyle pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing for entering the construction area known as “Offsite A” before dawn on February 3. Charges of failure to obey a lawful order and malicious destruction of property were dismissed for Sothoron and Doyle respectively. Mark Goldstone, Doyle’s attorney, said that she had mounted the crane with climbing equipment to serve as “belay” to Sothoron as the latter scaled to the top of the crane arm.

Twenty Cove Point Protectors Move Calvert County Court

February 25, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Maryland, Oil & Gas

On Monday, February 23, twenty Cove Point Protectors went to trial in the Calvert County District Court for actions last November and December to raise awareness and build resistance to a new gas refinery, liquefaction train, power plant and export terminal being built by Dominion Resources in the neighborhood of Cove Point in Southern Maryland. The Cove Point Protectors, as a group, were charged with 20 counts of trespass, 19 counts of failure to obey a lawful order and 2 counts of disorderly conduct. The gas refinery and export project, which will emit carcinogens and other toxins into the community and present a risk of chemical spill, fire and explosion, are the first to be placed in a densely-populated area. In fact, Dominion Resources lied during the permitting process by leaving out 90% of the more than 44,000 local people in its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

‘Dominion Get Out. Don’t Frack Maryland. No Gas Exports.’

February 3, 2015 SEED Staff, www.seedcoalition.wordpress.com/ Resist! Cove Point, Fracking, Gas export, Maryland

Early this morning, Maryland teacher Carling Sothoron climbed a 150-foot-tall crane at a construction site in Lusby, Maryland, that is part of the Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas export terminal project. She hung a banner reading “Dominion get out. Don’t frack Maryland. No gas exports. Save Cove Point.” Sothoron is part of Stopping Extraction and Exports Destruction (SEED), an umbrella group of mid-Atlantic activists fighting dirty energy projects. She remains on the crane. Heather Doyle, another SEED activist who stayed at the bottom of the crane to provide assistance to Sothoron, has been detained by law enforcement. ”The Dominion Cove Point LNG project is negatively impacting the environment and community in Lusby, MD. We are already seeing that it will directly lead to massive expansion of natural gas drilling and infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic region, from the coast to the Appalachian Mountains. I’m taking direct action today because I’m not willing to let the natural gas industry destroy Maryland, my home,” said Sothoron.

Billion Dollar Surveillance Blimp To Launch Over Maryland

December 22, 2014 Dan Froomkin, www.firstlook.org Educate! Maryland, Privacy, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism

In just a few days, the Army will launch the first of two massive blimps over Maryland, the last gasp of an 18-year-long $2.8-billion Army project intended to use giant airships to defend against cruise missiles. And while the blimps may never stave off a barrage of enemy missiles, their ability to spot and track cars, trucks and boats hundreds of miles away is raising serious privacy concerns. The project is called JLENS – or “Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System.” And you couldn’t come up with a better metaphor for wildly inflated defense contracts, a ponderous Pentagon bureaucracy, and the U.S. surveillance leviathan all in one.

Commissioners Sued Over Liquefied Methane Gas Zoning

June 12, 2014 Sarah Fleischman, www.somdnews.com Resist! Fracking, Gas, Law, Maryland

The Accokeek Mattawoman Piscataway Creeks Council is suing the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners over the board’s decision to exempt liquefied natural gas facilities from county zoning ordinances. The case was heard Friday by visiting Judge James P. Salmon as protestors rallied outside the courthouse. The amendment to exempt LNG facilities was adopted after a joint public hearing with the Calvert County Planning Commission in October. Attorney Atty J. Holzer, representing the AMP council, said the amendment passed Oct. 29, 2013, was “unquestionably property specific,” meaning the text amendment to the zoning ordinance was created solely for the proposed export project at Dominion Cove Point in Lusby. But county attorney John Norris said the amendment applies to all 430 properties zoned as I-1 within the county. The amendment was to allow LNG facilities to bypass local zoning and permitting regulations, but not state or federal ones like those regulating the critical area. Facilities such as Dominion Cove Point and Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant are highly regulated by federal agencies and the county does not have the expertise to deal with them, he said. The 2006 ordinance already included the nuclear plant, but the 2013 amendment was expanded to include LNG terminals.

Cove Point: Is Regulatory Agency Listening?

June 3, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Environment, Maryland, pollution

Hundreds filled the auditorium of Patuxent High School in Lusby, Maryland on May 31, eager to tell two representatives from the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) how they feel about the agency permitting a plant to export natural gas. In a marathon hearing lasting more than six hours, 150 people spoke out for and against the project. In general supporters expressed the sentiment, “Let’s get on with it,” while opponents said, “FERC is failing us.” Two years ago, Dominion Resources filed its application with FERC to add on to the existing Cove Point facility and ship out liquefied natural gas on tankers bound to Asia. Now, two weeks after FERC released its draft Environmental Assessment favorable to Dominion, many eyes are watching as the regulatory process goes into the final stretch. Among a labyrinth of federal and state agencies which must issue permits before construction gets the go-ahead, FERC will likely have the final say.

Academic Labor Unrest Spreads to Maryland Colleges

March 22, 2014 Bruce Vail www.inthesetimes.com Educate! Labor, Maryland

“We simply can not meet the needs of students when we must have two—and sometimes three—adjunct positions to even begin to support ourselves. I’ve heard stories about adjuncts who can’t afford an apartment and are living out of the back seatof their cars,” she adds. Smith estimates there are about 200 adjuncts at MICA, who teach about 45 percent of the school’s courses; overall, he says, the campus environment is a positive one. “We do enjoy working at MICA and it’s a great place to teach,” he says. But that’s not enough to outweigh the worries about survival and consistent employment that being an adjunct entails, he points out. “Of course compensation and benefits are big issues, but job security is probably the biggest concern,” he says. “You can have been an adjunct for ten years, but you still don’t know whether you will have a class to teach next semester.”

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