Oil & Gas

UK: 18 Actions Against Fossil Fuel Disrupt Business As Usual

June 2, 2015 No Dash For Gas, www.nodashforgas.org.uk Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil & Gas

By No Dash For Gas - Blockades, shutdowns, lock-ons, love-ins, tripods and nanas…..Reclaim the Power’s day of action against the fossil fuel industry today (1 June 2015) saw 18 different actions drawing the dots between big energy firms, government ministers, public relations companies, oil arts sponsorship and the fracking industry. We’ve all had the threatening letters from energy companies demanding payment for bills we can’t afford – and today we hit back. Reclaim the Power groups visited RWE Npower’s offices in Leeds and blockaded the front doors. Many households are forced onto pre-payment meters which are more expensive than direct debit accounts.

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.”

Protests Against Shell Arctic Drilling Will Continue, sHELLno!

June 1, 2015 Martha Baskin, www.truth-out.org Resist! Climate Justice, Environment, Oil & Gas, Seattle

By Martha Baskin in Truthout - When the Port of Seattle offered Royal Dutch Shell a home port for its Arctic drilling fleet, it didn't take long for climate justice to become the rallying cry. Add the fact that Seattle - along with the rest of the country - is experiencing a widespread, deepening awareness across generations and cultures of the rapid pace of climate change, and the fuse was ready to be lit. Sarra Tekola and Katrina Pestano are climate justice activists living in Seattle. Both are involved in the ongoing battle to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic this summer. Both have roots in the global South, a deepening awareness of the climate crisis faced by their generation - Tekola is 22 and Pestano is 31 - and a stake in the various cultures and places they call home.

Act Out! Episode 13 – #ShellNo, Sun Sets On Patriot Act

June 1, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resist! Fracking, Occupy, Oil & Gas, Patriot Act, Surveillance

By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - This week we dive into the toxic sludge of the oil industry, beginning with Shell’s latest plans to drill in the Arctic. Luckily, activists are standing, and sitting, up to these corporate cronies. We talk to Bill Moyer of Backbone Campaign and George Edwardson, Inupiat leader, about the #ShellNo protests, how you can get involved and the importance of leaving the Arctic the f#@% alone. Moving on to Santa Barbara, Nigeria and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the oil industry easily gets this week’s lowlife scum award. Speaking of lowlife scum, frack is wack and Beyond Extreme Energy is making sure the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hears them loud and clear over the sound of their rubber-stamped fracking rigs. Join them this week!

What The Approval Of A Natural Gas Export Terminal Means

May 30, 2015 No Pipeline Expansion, www.sape2016.org Resist! FERC, Law, Oil & Gas, Oil Pipeline

A grassroots coalition, No Pipeline Expansion (NOPE), stated today that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) approval of Pieridae’s Goldboro liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Nova Scotia, Canada confirms their position that natural gas from Spectra Energy’s northeast pipeline expansions will be shipped overseas. According to the Pieridae website, “the Pieridae facility is located adjacent to the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, a 1,400-kilometre transmission pipeline system built to transport natural gas between developments in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada and the northeastern United States.” The Spectra Maritimes & Northeast pipeline connects directly to the Spectra Algonquin pipeline in Beverly, MA. Exports by Spectra, assisted by the proposed Kinder Morgan greenfield pipeline and Peabody lateral, could feed most of Pieridae’s needs for gas.

Protests Helping To Stop Tar Sands Extractions

May 30, 2015 Hannah McKinnon, www.priceofoil.org Resist! Canada, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands

The Alberta tar sands has been on a collision course with the climate since industry and government made it clear they would bend over backwards to make this high cost, high carbon, high risk oil the centerpiece of a misguided strategy to become an ‘energy superpower’. For over two decades, the governments of Alberta and Canada have done everything possible to pave the way for rapid growth of the sector, leaving the industry to plan for rapid growth without giving a second thought to greenhouse gas emissions, environmental regulations, or even the rights of the First Nations on whose territory the tar sands are mined. But it was never going to be that easy to get away with such reckless expansion. Too many conditions need to be perfectly aligned for such rapid development.

Protests Against Use Of Chemicals In Santa Barbara Oil Spill

May 29, 2015 Emily Alpert Reyes and Javier Panzar, www.latimes.com Resist! California, Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill

Dozens of protesters chanted "End Oil Now!" and hoisted signs alongside an inflatable mock pipeline on a Santa Barbara beach on Sunday, demanding an end to fracking and other forms of "extreme oil extraction" days after a spill sent thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean and onto beaches. Crews in protective gear form a line to move bags if oiled sand into collection bins ad they work to clean sand at Refugio State Beach on the Gaviota Coast west of Goleta, one week after crude oil spilled into the ocean. "This spill is so visible," said Kassie Siegel, climate law institute director for the Center for Biological Diversity in Joshua Tree, "but so much of the damage that the oil companies do is harder to see. "This is a tragic reminder that oil production is dirty and dangerous from start to finish," Siegel said. She warned that chemical dispersants could make things worse by harming marine life and human health.

Never Give Up!: Fracking Battle Continues In Denton, TX

May 29, 2015 Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, www.dentonrc.com Resist! Fracking, Oil & Gas, Resistance, Texas

The fight over fracking in Texas cities is continuing. Anti-fracking activists are searching for a legal strategy to challenge the constitutionality of a new state law that appears to overturn the frack ban that Denton voters passed last November. On a second front, protesters picketed a Denton well site where hydraulic fracturing has resumed. And others are planning an anti-fracking rally on the City Hall lawn in the near future. About a dozen protesters blocked the gate at a Denton natural gas well site for a short time Wednesday morning, stepping aside only after Denton police asked them to do so. Many of the people who blocked the Vantage Energy well site on Denton’s west side had volunteered in the citizens campaign to ban fracking in the city, said Tara Linn Hunter.

Climate Talks In Copenhagen Dominated By Climate Destroying Corps

May 28, 2015 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Educate! Capitalism, Climate Change, Oil & Gas

Fresh revelations that yet another round of United Nations climate talks—this time the upcoming negotiations in Paris—will be sponsored by some of the very corporations driving global warming have been met with outrage and alarm that the global process continues to be "captured by big polluters." Pierre-Henri Guignard, Secretary-General of the UN Conference of the Parties 21 (COP21), unveiled the list of corporate sponsors on Wednesday. "We are building a very business friendly COP which will show the commitment of the private sector to the spirit of the convention," hestated. But climate justice advocates say that by being "business friendly," the conference is, in fact, hostile to the public good—and the planet itself.

Oil Company Bonuses Linked To $1tn Spending On Extraction

May 27, 2015 Simon Bowers and Harry Davies, www.theguardian.com Educate! Capitalism, Fossil Fuel, Oil & Gas

Bosses at the world’s big five oil companies have been showered with bonus payouts linked to a $1tn (£650bn) crescendo of spending on fossil fuel exploration and extraction over nine years, according to Guardian analysis of company reports. The unprecedented push to bring untapped reserves into production, and to exploit new and undiscovered fields, involves some of the most complex feats of engineering ever attempted. It also reflects how confident Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, Total and BP are that demand will remain high for decades to come. The big oil groups are pressing ahead with investments despite the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimating that two-thirds of proven fossil fuel reserves will need to remain in the ground to prevent the earth from warming 2C above pre-industrial levels – a proposed temperature limit beyond which scientists warn of spiralling and irreversible climate change.

Woman Chained To Shell Oil Ship For 3 Days

May 26, 2015 Sarah Lane and Julie Hall, www.insidebainbridge.com Resist! Direct Action, Oil & Gas

A woman who had been hanging off the anchor chain of a support ship that is part of Royal Dutch Shell's plans to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean ended her dayslong protest north of Seattle on Monday morning. Student activist Chiara D'Angelo requested assistance getting down from her perch on the Arctic Challenger in the Bellingham harbor around 9:30 a.m. Monday, the Coast Guard said. D'Angelo was checked for hypothermia and then released, Petty Officer 3rd Class Katelyn Shearer said. She spent the weekend attached to the ship in an environmental protest against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska. The oil company's proposal also has drawn large protests in Seattle, where a massive, floating drill rig is being prepared for the excursion.

Judge Says No To Fracking

May 23, 2015 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Environmental Justice, Fracking, Law, North Carolina, Oil & Gas

A judge in North Carolina has blocked the start of fracking in that state over a challenge to the membership of the commission charged with issuing the permits. “Finally some good news in our long battle to keep fracking out of NC!” exulted North Carolina environmental nonprofit Haw River Assembly, one of the parties to the lawsuit, on its Facebook page. The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) was granted the preliminary injunction it sought in Wake County Superior Court to delay the state’s Energy and Mining Commission from taking any action on permits, effectively reinstating (for the time being) the state’s longtime moratorium on fracking which was lifted by the legislature last summer.

Congress Considers Fast Tracking Pipelines On Federal Lands

May 23, 2015 Augusta Free Press, www.augustafreepress.com Educate! Environment, Land, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Southern Environmental Law Center Senior Attorney Greg Buppert testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on Wednesday on the failure of the proposed National Energy Security Corridors Act to account for the significant impacts that natural gas pipelines crossing federal lands would have on the surrounding local communities and private property. The proposed legislation would allow pipelines to be sited through federal lands without providing the general public an opportunity to weigh in. Buppert explained to Congress that the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline have encountered broad opposition from many Virginia communities surrounding the pipelines’ paths.

Activists Occupy Interior Department To Protest Arctic Drilling

May 23, 2015 John Zangas and Anne Meador, www.cetology.org Resist! Arctic drilling, Environment, FERC, Oil & Gas

On day two of a series of protests called “FERCus,” activists played a cat-and-mouse game with police, starting out early in the morning at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, proceeding to the U.S. Department of the Interior and then returning to FERC by midday. They began with an early morning sit-in at FERC as employees arrived at work. Later, they ducked into the Metro, confounding police who were closely following their movements. They showed up an hour later at the Department of the Interior to protest Arctic drilling. (The Obama administration recently conditionally approved Shell Oil’s plan to drill in the Chukchi Sea off of Alaska’s North Slope.) Activists were ejected by security after occupying the lobby for several minutes.

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