Oil and Gas

Tree-Sit Protest Of Mountain Valley Pipeline Escalates

March 29, 2018 Laurence Hammack, Roanoke.com. Resist! Environment, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Tree Sitting

Peter's Mountain — She didn’t want to state her name, the woman who was sitting near the top of a 50-foot pole planted in the middle of a gravel road. She did state her purpose: “I hope to make it a lot harder for MVP to do any work on this road,” she said, speaking from inside a tarp that covered a wooden platform attached to the pole. Opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline erected their latest roadblock to the company’s plans to build a natural gas pipeline through the Jefferson National Forest on Wednesday. It was the 30th day that fellow protesters have been sitting in two trees along the pipeline’s proposed route...

Kitchen-Table Nonprofit Rallies Community To Defeat Energy Giant

March 14, 2018 Kelly Canavan, AMP Creeks Council. Resist! compressor station, Dominion Energy, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

In what feels like a miraculous victory, the Charles County Board of Appeals voted 4 - 1 to deny the zoning special exception that Dominion needs to build Charles Station -- the fracked gas compressor station it wants to put on New Marshall Hall/Barry's Hill Rd. in Charles County, Maryland, on the Cove Point pipeline. Board members, fully aware that this case will move into the circuit court when Dominion appeals their decision, took great pains to lay out the reasons that they voted as they did, citing legal documents, ordinances, and codes to support their positions.

Anti-Pipeline Tree Sitters In Second Week, Need Support

March 12, 2018 Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Tree Sitting, West Virginia

Peters Mountain, WV - Tree sitters with Appalachians Against Pipelines are now in the second week of their action to stop tree cutting for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on the border of Virginia and West Virginia. The pipeline company has to complete the tree cutting by March 31, 2018 or violate federal wildlife protections for bats. The tree sitters need your support.

We Are Lancaster County Invades Pipeline Company

March 12, 2018 Lancaster Against Pipelines, We Are Lancaster County. Resist! Environment, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

Pennsylvania - A busload of fifty local residents took over the field offices of Williams/Transco at 805 Estelle Drive, Suite 101, in Lancaster. We dropped a 12-ft stretch of pipeline in Williams’s meeting room, sang songs through the hallways, and slapped a Condemnation Notice on the door before leaving. When a Williams employee complained about our visit, one of our residents deadpanned: “Sucks to be invaded, doesn’t it?”

Protesters Block Dominion Energy’s Tree-Felling Before Permits

March 9, 2018 Anne Meador, Facebook. Resist! Dominion Energy, Environment, FERC, Oil and Gas

Workers were temporarily blocked from entering the site of a proposed compressor station in Southern Maryland early on Thursday morning. Seven people and a baby pulled a wide streamer of blue fabric across the entrance to a Dominion-owned site, where tree-felling has begun for a proposed compressor station. The project hasn't yet received all the necessary permits, but FERC gave Dominion the go-ahead to clear 13 acres of trees and vegetation.

Goldman Sachs Event At Harvard Disrupted Today

March 6, 2018 No Bayou Bridge Pipeline Solidarity Campaign, Popular Resistance. Resist! No BBP, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Water Protectors

A Goldman Sachs recruitment event at Harvard University was just disrupted over Goldman's investments in Energy Transfer Partners (ETP). Goldman Sachs is the top shareholder of ETP and the second largest shareholder of ETP's parent company, Energy Transfer Equity, holding nearly $2 billion in shares in these companies. Goldman Sachs has also loaned ETP tens of millions of dollars. ETP is the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline and hired armed mercenaries to brutalize peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock. Construction on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline is happening now but communities are resisting. Support the frontlines by finding a target and taking action: www.NoBayouBridge.global

12 Young People Blockade Oil Company Cocktail Party

March 6, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Climate Change, Donald Trump, Oil and Gas

Sunrise, which describes itself as "a movement of young people uniting to stop the climate crisis," organized a protest at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC when the Independent Petroleum Association of America was holding a cocktail party lobbying event. As you can see in the livestream they disrupted the party and told personal stories about climate impacts and the need for a swift end to the fossil fuel industry. They also had people outside the hotel holding a support rally that called attention to what was happening inside and talking to media. On their Facebook page they write "We call ourselves Sunrise because we know this dark hour in America, when fossil fuel executives and climate deniers run our government, cannot last. The sun will rise again."

Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, And Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking Of National Monuments

March 3, 2018 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Educate! Coal, Monuments, Oil and Gas

Interior Department emails that came to light on Friday confirm that protecting companies' ability to mine oil, gas, and coal was a primary concern as the agency moved to shrink two national monuments in Utah last year. "We've long known that Trump and Zinke put polluter profits ahead of our clean air, clean water, public health, and coastal economies. This is more proof," Alex Taurel of the League of Conservation Voters said in a statement. "On Zinke's one year anniversary as secretary, the evidence of just how embedded Trump and Zinke are with the dirty energy of the past could not be clearer." Thousands of pages of correspondence and documents, uncovered by a lawsuit filed by the New York Times against the department after it failed to comply with an open records request for the materials, show that Interior staffers compiled estimates of how many coal reserves were located in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as the agency was reconsidering the protected land's boundaries.

Marathon Reaches Deal With Investors On Human Rights

February 15, 2018 David Hasemyer, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Human Rights, Oil and Gas, Standing Rock

In the face of mounting pressure from investors and the glare of public scrutiny, Marathon Petroleum Corp. officials acknowledged that the company has a responsibility to address environmental and social risks—including potential violations of the rights of indigenous people. However, in an agreement signed Friday with a block of shareholders, the oil company also said that the ultimate responsibility for protecting human rights lies with government regulators. Human rights activists described the concessions as superficial and said the lack of binding requirements could allow the company to continue with little reform. Shareholders in the Ohio-based company turned up the heat after seeing the treatment of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, a project Marathon bought into just as tensions were boiling over in 2016.

Listing Donations Of Committee Members Gets Woman Evicted In W. Virginia

February 12, 2018 Russell Mokhiber, Morgancountyusa.org Resist! Money in Politics, Oil and Gas, West Virginia

Lissa Lucas traveled the 100 miles from her home in Cairo, West Virginia to the state capitol in Charleston yesterday to testify against an oil and gas industry sponsored bill (HB 4268) that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners’ land without their consent. Lucas began to testify to the House Judiciary Committee, but a few minutes in, her microphone was turned off. And Lucas was dragged out of the room. Lucas is running for the House of Delegates from Ritchie County, which has been overrun by the fracking industry. “As I tried to give my remarks at the public hearing this morning on HB 4268 in defense of our constitutional property rights, I got dragged out of House chambers,” Lucas said. “Why? Because I was listing out who has been donating to Delegates on the Judiciary Committee.”

Trump Moves To Open 90% Of Our Coastal Waters To Oil Drilling

January 6, 2018 By Rhea Suh, Ecowatch.com Educate! Drilling, Oil and Gas, Trump Administration

President Trump has launched the most sweeping industrial assault in history on our oceans, marine life, coasts and all they support, proposing to expose nearly all U.S. waters to the risk of another BP oil spill–style disaster. In a move that would put every American coastal community at risk, Trump proposed Thursday to hand over vast reaches of waters currently protected from drilling—in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans—to the oil and gas industry. If Trump gets his way, iconic fishing grounds like George's Bank, treasured recreational waters like the Florida Straits, and critical marine-breeding areas like those off the California coast would be exposed to the dangers of blowouts, explosions, catastrophic spills, seismic blasting and other perils that come with these inherently hazardous industrial operations at sea.

Pipeline Company Illegally Cutting Trees, Threatening Eagles

December 10, 2017 Protect Orange County, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipelines, wildlife

Orange County NY Residents who oppose Millenniums 7.8 Mile pipeline called VLP or Valley Lateral Project staged a Vigil after learning that yesterday the stay of construction was lifted for the VLP Millennium Pipeline Project. The Millennium Pipeline was planning on cutting down trees feet from a protected Nesting Bald Eagles nest, even after they requested and were provided with footage of the Eagles in the Nest this Month. 24 hours after the stay was lifted Millennium Employees were found on Ridgebury road in the Town of Wawayanda with chain saws and hardhats.

South Dakota Warns It Could Revoke Pipeline Permit

November 26, 2017 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Environment, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, South Dakota

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News. South Dakota regulators said they could revoke TransCanada's permit for the 7-year-old Keystone Pipeline if an investigation into a large oil spill discovered last week concludes the company violated its terms. If that happens, the company would have to correct any issues—in the worst case, even replace part of the pipeline—before oil shipments could resume. The scrutiny comes as more challenges emerge to the company's recently approved expansion of its pipeline system: the Keystone XL. On Nov. 16, TransCanada reported that 210,000 gallons, or 5,000 barrels, of oil had spilled from its existing Keystone Pipeline near Amherst, South Dakota, and that it had shut down the pipeline in response.

Olympia Blockade Releases Their List Of Demands

November 26, 2017 Anonymous, www.insurrectionnewsworldwide.com Resist! Environment, Fracking, Oil and Gas, Railroads

From Insurrection News. Since November 18, a blockade of the railway freight line has been ongoing in downtown Olympia, Washington State, USA, about an hour’s drive from Seattle. The blockade is to prevent sand that is destined to be used for fracking from being transported from the nearby port. A diverse group of people are taking part in the blockade that some have labelled the Olympia Commune, including anarchists and environmental activists of various persuasions.

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