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FERC Issues Stop Work Order For Dominion Pipeline

August 5, 2018 Friends of Nelson County ,
Friends of Nelson County reports that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a stop work order for the Mountain Valley Pipeline being built by Dominion Energy. Friends of Nelson’s mission is to protect property rights, property values, rural heritage and the environment for all the citizens of Nelson County, Virginia. It is working to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In the letter below they report on a Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals decision that vacated federal agency decisions that authorized the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project. As a result, the Mountain Valley Pipeline Corporation has not obtained the rights-of-way and temporary use permits from the federal government needed for the Project to cross federally owned lands. As a result, FERC has ordered: "MVP is hereby notified that construction activity along all portions of the Project and in all work areas must cease immediately...."

It’s Time To Support The Bayou Bridge Pipeline Fight

August 1, 2018 L'Eau est la Vie. , ,
The battle to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline has been a long one, with many successes. Not only did we organize 700 local people to the public comment meetings, we sent around 20,000 public comments in by mail.  We have shown up to support and hold teach-ins in communities from Lake Charles to St James, to Shreveport. We have held art parties, and attended council, church, and civic group meetings. We have canvassed neighborhoods and created letter writing campaigns.  We have created discomfort for impotent politicians, and sleepless nights for greedy corporate thieves.

Retired Schoolteacher Blockades Pipeline On Family Land

July 31, 2018 Appalachians Against Pipelines , ,
Monroe County, WV — On Tuesday, July 31, a West Virginia grandmother halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) by blockading herself in a 1971 Ford Pinto elevated off the ground at a pipeline work site. The blockade is being carried out by 64-year old local resident, author, retired schoolteacher, and grandmother Becky Crabtree on the section of pipeline easement that is ravaging the land her family lives on in Monroe County. Banners at the site read “Defend What You Love” and “Resist All Pipelines;” messages on the Pinto include, “Power to the People” and “The Fire is Spreading.”

Necessity Defense Allowed In Resist Spectra Case

July 24, 2018 Resist Spectra, Popular Resistance , ,
oday was the first day of the Resist Spectra trial and the judge ruled the necessity defense will be allowed! That means the six people who are on trial for trespassing for an action that halted construction on the Spectra/Enbridge AIM fracked gas pipeline for 16 hours in 2016 in New York will be allowed to argue that their actions were necessary to prevent imminent harm. The decision by Judge Ragazzo to allow the necessity defense comes on the heels of the release of the executive summary of an Independent Risk Assessment from Governor Cuomo’s administration that acknowledged unanswered questions and echoed years of safety concerns of experts and community members alike.

Pence Family’s Failed Gas Stations Cost Taxpayers $20 Million-Plus

July 15, 2018 Brian Slodysko, AP   , , ,
The state of Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states from the Pence family gas stations, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells. Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million on the cleanup thus far, or an average of about $500,000 per site, according to an analysis of records by The Associated Press. And the work is nowhere near complete. The federal government, meanwhile, plans to clean up a plume of cancer-causing solvent discovered beneath a former Kiel Bros. station that threatens drinking water near the Pence family’s hometown.

Blacksburg Mother Locks Down To Halt Mountain Valley Pipeline

June 28, 2018 Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Thursday morning, a pipeline protester locked herself to construction equipment on a Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) easement in Montgomery County, VA, bringing pipeline construction on Brush Mountain to a halt. The blockade, carried out by local resident Emily Satterwhite, is the most recent action in an ongoing campaign to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Banners at the site read “Water is Life - We Won’t Back Down” and “VA Dems: Pipelines or Democracy - You Choose.” Dozens of local residents and pipeline resisters have gathered on Brush Mountain to support Emily and express their opposition to the MVP. 

Tree Sitters Risk Lives On The Front Line

May 27, 2018 Drew Philip, The Guardian. , , ,
Way out in the Appalachian hills, on the line between Virginia and West Virginia, after an hour-long backwoods hike up Peters Mountain, an orderly clutch of tents were surrounded by a plastic yellow ribbon that read, “police line do not cross”. Past that, a woman sat on top of a 50 ft pole. Opposite the knot of tents where the woman’s supporters kept 24-hour vigil lay an encampment of police, pipeline workers, and private security bearing floodlights, generators and hard, binocular-bespectacled stares.

Protest Morgan Stanley Over Support For Pipelines

May 25, 2018 , , ,
Purchase, NY - Early yesterday morning, a group of activists disrupted Morgan Stanley's annual shareholder meeting by blocking vehicle access at both entrances to their corporate campus in Purchase, NY.  The action was carried out in solidarity with communities across the continent who are being harmed by Morgan Stanley's continued financing of extreme energy development. This includes providing financing for Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the highly controversial Dakota Access, Bayou Bridge and Mariner East pipelines.

Resistance Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline Grows

April 20, 2018 Carolyn Reilly, Little Teel Crossing. , ,
Franklin County, VA - In the farmlands of Franklin County, a new stand against the Mountain Valley Pipeline has begun. Three tree sits loom directly in the path of the pipeline’s destruction, making it impossible to clear the way without severely injuring the inhabitants of those trees. The sits tower over 75 feet off the ground of a small family farm’s livestock pasture, overlooking Little and Teel creeks, home to the endangered Roanoke Log Perch. The tree sits build upon two other blockades to construction- a stand one hundred miles West, on Peters Mountain, and twenty miles West, in Bent Mountain, VA.

Lockdown To Stop The Bayou Bridge Pipeline

April 19, 2018 L'eau est la vie, Facebook. , ,
MAURICE, LA - On the morning of April 18th a water protector locked herself into a cement filled barrel placed in the trench of a horizontal directional drill on a construction site of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Over a dozen more water protectors from L'eau est La Vie resistance camp rallied alongside her blasting loud music and dancing under banners strung from the drill and excavators that stated "Water is Critical Infrastructure. Stop HB727" and "Stop ETP". The group was soon detained and ID'ed but were eventually let go and allowed to move to a public road nearby where they continued to shout words of support to their locked down comrade.

Protests Against Pipelines In Canada Hurting Oil & Gas Industry

April 15, 2018 By Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News , ,
When the pipeline company Kinder Morgan announced it was suspending work on a major Canadian project that has been delayed by protests and court challenges, it sparked talk of a crisis north of the border and fears that investors may flee the nation's tar sands industry. It was the clearest sign yet of how difficult it's become for energy companies to find new routes to export the country's landlocked oil, among the most expensive and damaging to the climate to produce. Over the past several years, climate activists and indigenous groups—in particular many of Canada's First Nations governments—have built a sustained campaign that has succeeded in delaying, and in some cases canceling, almost every attempt to send more Canadian oil to foreign markets. Canada's tar sands hold one of the world's largest deposits of oil, but as the industry has expanded production over the past decade, it's been unable to complete new pipelines fast enough to ship it out.

Energy Transfer Partners Cuts Trees, Resisters Continue Struggle

April 12, 2018 Camp White Pines, Facebook. ,
Before dawn on Sunday, April 8, 2018, Energy Transfer Partners sent work crews onto the Gerharts’ homestead to cut down three trees and a monopod that had been defended since the 2016 tree-clearing. Based on the timing and tactics of this underhanded, cowardly attack, Energy Transfer Partners had invested significant resources in surveilling Camp White Pine. At Camp White Pine we are reminded of the wisdom, “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds,” as well as the collective courage and resilience of all life. It is this lack of understanding of our cause that Energy Transfer will not win. Right now little pines are already sprouting from the trees felled at Camp White Pine. As a part of its vision for the long-term future, Camp White Pine plans to distribute seedlings to willing supporters and welcoming land.  Well after our struggle ends and Energy Transfer Partners’ name is wiped from the stock market, the seeds from these trees, whose lives were abruptly ended, will grow.

Resistance Is Necessary To Overcome The Climate Crisis

April 2, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. , , ,
The science is clear that we must no longer build new fossil fuel infrastructure and we must invest in clean sources of energy, yet oil and gas companies continue to receive permits to build more pipelines, compressor stations and refineries. in response, communities are organizing to stop these projects. We speak with Tim DeChristopher about how communities are using the necessity defense to defend their actions to stop the projects. And we discuss the state of the climate justice movement, how Big Greens are failing on climate justice and strategies for action.

West Virginia Trees Speak Out, US Climate Refugees & Media Tricks You

April 1, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com. , , ,
On Peters Mountain in West Virginia, people are resisting in building. Entering the 5th week of a tree-sit, Appalachians Against Pipelines are engaging in direct action against the Mountain Valley Pipeline and for People and Planet. Two folks on the front lines join us to talk backstory, updates and inspiration. Headlines this week: A look at one of corporate media's favorite techniques. PLUS what you'll never hear covered on nightly news – i.e. Uncle Sam's very own climate refugees, how much of the planet's forests we have left & pipeline battles from the front lines.

County Denies Compressor Station Zoning Permit, State Seeks To Overrule

March 31, 2018 Paul Lagasse, Maryland Independent. , , ,
Bryans Road, Maryland - Over the course of three-and-a-half hours Wednesday evening, more than 60 people lined up to speak in opposition to the granting of a draft air quality permit to Dominion Energy Cove Point LNG, a necessary step for the construction of a controversial [fracked] natural gas compressor station in Bryans Road. The hearing follows a recent decision by the Charles County Board of Appeals not to grant Dominion a special exception to build the compressor station on a 50-acre parcel of land along Barrys Road.
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